882 
LIPARIS foKosa. 
Many-leaved Liparis, 
GYNANDRIA MOf^AmniA. 
Nat. ord. Orchide^. Sect. V. Malaxideae. Idndl. *upra,fol. 825, 
tn textu. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, decidua. PolUnia 2, v. 4 per 
paria cofaeerentia, cereacea, filo et glandulis nullis. — Herbae sapissimi terres- 
ires, folHs inembranaeeii, Scapi terminales. Flotts herbacei, inconspieui. 
Labelltim sapius portiam. 
LIPARIS, Rich. Labellum planum, ezpUnatum, integrum, vari^ 
versnin. Columna alata. PolHnia 4. 
'L.foUota; feliis radical! bus inaeqaalibas lanceolafis integris aciitis caraosis 
racemo subeequalibus, labello oblongo retuso, dinandrio integerrimo. 
Herba terrestris, acaulis, bulbis nullis. Folia 3, v. 4, suberectOj crassa, 
oblongo-lanceolata, subcomplicata, glaberrima, acuta ; ultimo spica longi- 
tudine ; extus ad basin foliis duobus abortiris vaginata. Raccmus ffrmt- 
nalis, ei^ectus, 8-12-^orus. Floras parvi, lirides, distantts, inidique versi. 
Ovarium bractea midtoties longius, cum pedicello ai'ticulalmn. IVriai)- 
tliiuni explanatum^ sepalis liberis, subcequallbus, Uneari-lunceolalis, rtjleiis ; 
labello viridi-luteo, libero, oblongo, erecto-patente, integro, retuso. Columna 
tenuis, encia, libera, marginata, clinandrio marginato, integro, Anthera 
bilocularis, terminalis, opertmUtH^y dttidMa^ W<Mmm 4, etrtaeeayJUo miBo, 
V. saltern citissime obsolete. 
For this curious new species of Liparis we are obliged 
to Robert Barclay, Esq. by whom it was received from 
the Isle of France in 1823. Our drawing was made last 
August, from a plant cultivated in the stove of that gen- 
tleman's collection; whteii is unquestionably the most 
extensive and useful ever farmed by a private individual 
in this country. 
The genus Liparis, which was established by the 
late Riohai^ upon the Ophi^ys Loselii of Europe, 
has now assumed an extent which certainly could not 
have been contemplated by that most excellent and 
learned botanist, who appears to have been acquainted 
only with the European Ophrys W^Mst^ Malaxis liliifolia 
of N. America. 
