698 CXLVHI, ORCHIDEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Liparis. 
angular, bracts spreading ovate not reflexed after flowering lanceolate, 
flowers coriaceous, sepals short obtuse 5-nerved, lateral falcately oblong 
spreading and recurved, dorsal longer narrower, lip recurved cuneately 
obovate or obcordate, base 2-tubercled, column incurved, wings narrow. 
Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 261. L. odorata, Lindl. Gen. y Sp. 
Orchid. 26; Thwaites Enum. 295. Empusa paradoxa, Lindl. in Walt. Ce, 
1937 A in part; Bot. Reg. sub. t. 825; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 17; Mique 
Prolus. Fl. Jap. 135; Thwaites Enum. 426. Empusaria sp., Reichh. f. 
Conspect. 69. Malaxis lancifolia, Smith in Rees Cyclop. M. odorata, 
Willd.— Rheede Hort. Mal, xii. t. 28. 
TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL Himataya; Kumaon, alt. 6000 ft., Blinkworth ; 
Nepal, Wallich.. KnasrA Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. BENGAL, at "T 
men:ingh, Clarke. The Concan and Mysonr, Stocks, Law, &c. CEYLON; alt. 
2—5000 ft., Thwaites.—DISTRIB. Java, Siam, China, Japan. . d 
Very variable in habit, 6-18 in. high; stem tufted, base sometimes pseu A 
bulbous. Leaves 2-8 in., rarely elliptic-lanceolate and narrowed into a broad Luteo 
membranous or subcoriaceous. Scape 4-10 in., naked or nearly so, rigid ; pois 
variable in length, 4 in. and longer, not reflexed; pedicels usually short and stonki 
flowers about 2 in. across, yellow-brown; ribs of ovary wrinkled. Lip vana i 
in breadth, sides erect. Capsules clavate.—I follow Ridley in accepting the pM 
of paradoxa for this plant, though, as he points out, Z odorata is the oldest. 
latter name is, as Thwaites states, inapplicable. I have seen no Ceylon specimens. “a 
Var. Parishii; leaves narrowed at the base or broadly petioled flat mo 
membranous, scape taller and flowers longer.— Tenasserim, Lobb, Parish. 
27. L. Dalzellii, Hook. f.; tall, stem as thick as the thumb, level 
2-3 sessile elliptic-ovate acute, scape stout, bracts lanceolate not de wir 
spreading, flowers } in. across, sepals 5-nerved obtuse sides recurved, p 
faleately oblong, dorsal longer linear-oblong, lip broadly obcordate feet 
dark purple, base 2-tubercled, column stout incurved, wings rounded. 
Sourn Concan, Daizell. ich the 
I have seen only one specimen of this remarkably gigantic species, of bie: lb 
sheathed stem 4 iu. long, and $ in. diam., terminates below in a small pseudo lin. 
Leaves 4-6 by 23-3 in. Scape stout; bracts À in. long, not deflexed ; pedioale xn 
stout ; flowers twice as large as those of L, paradoxa. 
28. L. Walkerise, Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3770; stem stout, wore 
2-3 petioled ovate or orbicular acute, racemes many -fld., bracts lanceo s 
spreading, sepals obtuse 5-nerved, lateral flat faleately oblong; gem 
longer linear-oblong sides recurved, lip orbicular recurved crenulate, um 
contracted 2-tubercled, column incurved, wings uncinate. Thwaites 200" 
295; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 277. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from the Nilghiri Hills to Travancore, Wight, 
&c. CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Walker, &e. —— d, base 
Stem 2-4 in., base pseudobulbous. Leaves 2-4 by 14-4 in., ets ] in., 
sometimes very unequal; petiole 0-13 in. Scape with raceme 3-6 in. ; bra ed and 
not deflexed ; pedicels rather large; flowers about } in. pale. Zip jen but 
rather fleshy.—I have examined many flowers, but fid no lip to be at all oblong 
always more or less rounded, as described by Graham; but when the lip m is very 
as oblong, it is because of the sides being incurved and foreshortened. 
difficult to flatten out the lips of species in which it is recurved. t 
29. L. atropurpurea, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 28; en nlt 
leaves 3-4 petioled ovate or orbicular, base very oblique and unequa d sides 
lanceolate spreading, sepals very long linear obtuse, all with recur? 
