228 MR. HENRY RIDLEY ON ORCHIDEH AND 
Liparis LATIFOLIA, Lindl., Gen. et Sp. Orch., p. 30. L.Scortechint, 
Hook. f., Ic. Pl., t. 2009, et Fl. Brit. Ind., v. p. 703. 
Hab. Perak : Gunong Hijan, and cther parts of Larut Hills! 
Selangor: Bukit Hitam, Lieut. Kelsall !—Java. 
Rather a handsome species ; sepals and petals pallid pinkish 
white; lips reddish apricot colour. On trees, at 4-5,000 feet alt. 
L. eeGans, Lindl., Gen. et Sp. Orch., p. 30, in Wall. Last, 
n. 1948. LZ. gracilis, Hook. f., Ic. Pl., t. 2011. 
Hab. Singapore: common; Selitar! Kranji, Sungei Buloh! 
Johore: Near the town ! 
Malacca: Bukit Bruang! Mt. Ophir! 
Perak: Near the Waterfall, Thaiping! 
Pahang; Pekan! 
Penang: Moniot’s Road, Waterfall Hill, Curtis ! 
Kedah : Kedah Peak, alt. 3,000 feet ! 
Lankawi Islands: Kwala Malacca, Curtis ! 
This species, so long doubtful, proves to be the commonest 
species of the genus in the peninsula. It is almost always 
terrestrial, growing either directly on the ground or on old 
stumps in dry woods, more rarely on the lower branches or 
trunk of a tree. It is most abundant in the low country near 
the sea; but ascends to 3,000 or 4,000 feet altitude on Kedah 
Peak and Mount Ophir. It frequently produces a rather long, 
stiff, woody rhizome, with distant pseudo-bulbs ; but I have seen 
forms with crowded pseudo-bulbs and short leaves, which look 
at first sight as if of a distinct species. The sepals and petals 
are pale yellowish, the lip orange. The fruit varies from j to 
3 in. in length. 
I cannot separate L. gracilis, Hook. f. L. elegans, Lindl., Sir 
Joseph Hooker ptts under a section with a solitary leaf, and says 
that the pseudo-bulbs are hardly developed ; but in all the plants 
which I have seen there are very conspicuous pseudo-bulbs, 
and two or more leaves to each, as Mr. Rolfe, too, describes it. 
L. rraccina, Retchb. f. in Linnea, xli. (1877) p. 45. 
Hab. Malacca: Machap, I. Derry ! 
Perak: King’s Collector. 
The Malacca specimens are fully as big as the Javanese. 
Those cbtained by King’s Collector in Perak were, according 
to Sir Joseph Hooker, much smaller and had no calli on the 
lip. The Malacca plants have, at the base of the lip, two small 
