692 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEA, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Liparis. 
membranous and continuous with their sheath, or thicker and jointed on 
the sheath or pseudobulb. Flowers small, in terminal racemes, resupinate. 
Sepals spreading, recurved or revolute, margins often revolute. P 
as long, very slender. Lip adnate to the base of the column, usually 
broad, deflexed from a very short base, or recurved. Column long, m- 
curved, margined or winged towards the tip; anther terminal; pollinia 4. 
— Species about 100, temperate or tropical. 
Sect. I. MoLLIroLI®. Leaves membranous, not jointed at the base on 
the'r sheath or pseudobulb, usually broad, often petioled. 
* Lip broad, abruptly deflexed from very base, flat or with deflexed 
sides. Sepals narrow and petals with recurved or revolute margins; 
lateral sepals usually placed under the lip. 
+ Leaf solitary. 
1. L. cordifolia, Hook. f. Jc. Pl. t. 1811; leaf solitary sessile broadly 
rounded-ovate deeply cordate amplexicaul, bracts small triangular or lane? A 
late, pedicels long filiform, sepals lanceolate acute 3-nerved, lip large der 
obeordate or orbicular-obovate apiculate crenulate, column very slende 
incurved. 
Nonru-WrsT HIMALAYA (drawing in Herb. Kew). SIKKIM; at ex: 
alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. Kasia Mrs., alt. 3-6000 ft., Grifih, J. D. H. 4 
( Liparis, No. 8). 1.4 in 
Pseudobulbs short, stout, crowded. Stem short, stout. Leaves 2-5 by ur als 
acuminate; nerves distant, faint. Scape naked, with the raceme 4-5 in. à ket 
lanceolate, 3-nerved ; lip 4-3 in. long, yellow-green, base narrow, callus © i the 
Column obscurely winged.—Referred to L. rupestris, Griff., by Ridley, bu 
flowers are large and the bracts minute. 
2. L. rupestris, Griff. Notul. iii. 276; “ pseudobulb formed wed 
flowering obpyriform sheathed, leaf solitary petioled broadly cordate ac a 
scape angled and winged, bracts minute lanceolate much shorter cent 
pedicels, flowers small resupinate, sepals linear convolute, lateral P ircle 
under the flat oblong membranous veined lip, column forming & semic 
top clavate margined.”—Griffth. 
Kuasta Mrs. ; on rocks at Nunklow, Griffith. ae 
I know of no Khasian small-flowered plant answering to this description t k low 
l follow Ridley in his reference to it of Reichenbach’s Z. rostrata, or of the j Thom- 
plant of myself and Thomson (which is, I think, nepalensis), or of Royle's une im, 
sen's N.W. Indian species. Ridley’s var. purpurascens, with 2 leaves, from 
collected by myself, is L. pulchella. 
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9. L. Thwaitesii, Mook. f.; leaf solitary petioled covate-cords 
acute 5-nerved, bracts lanceolate, sepals lanceolate 3-nerved, lip d wit 
oblong or subobovate retuse base 2-toothed, column sleuder eo dey in 
2 erect teeth. L. Wightiana in part, Thwaites Enum. 204; fale 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 278. 
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CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 3179) 2-3 in» 
Pseudobulbs tufted ; stem 1-3 in., rather slender, sheaths acute. Leg the ca- 
crenulate, nerves strong. Scape 2-6 in.; bracts j in. shorter in ted below 
pillary pedicels; lip À in. long, red-purple, covering the sepals, contran ý with 
the narrow 2-auricled base.— Very different from Wight’s D. atrop wr jate leaf, 
which Thwaites and Ridley have united it, in the solitary petioled erent 
column, &e, ` 
nor can 
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