Liparis.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 699 
dorsal 3- lateral 5-nerved, lip recurved orbicular-obovate fleshy with 2 large 
long tubercles at the narrowed base, column very slender curved, wings 
large rounded. Thwaites Enum. 295; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 
277 (excl. syn. L. livida); Bot. Mag. t.5529. `L. olivacea, and L. Walkeriz, 
Wight Ic. t. 903, 905. 
TRAVANCORE; ou the Pulney Mts., Wight. CEYLON, Macrae; elevated parts 
of the Central Province, Thwaites, &c. 
Habit and foliage of L. Walkerie, but leaves always extremely unequal at the 
base, with one side rounded or auricled and the other acute, margins smooth or 
crisped ; scapes taller, racemes longer, and flowers very much larger and dark vinous 
purple, the dorsal sepal 3 of an inch long.— L. livida, Lindl., included under atro- 
purpurea by Ridley, is a very different plant (see end of genus). Lindley has fastened 
on the same sheet with this in his Herbarium a specimen of L. Walkerie with the 
habitat « Khasia, Lobb,” which I doubt not is an error for the Nilghiri Hills, where 
Lobb also collected. 
30. L. brachyglottis, Reichb. f. in Trimen Cat. Pl. Ceylon; small, 
leaves 2 alternate petioled or the upper sessile ovate or ovate-cordate 
acuminate, bracts ovate concave, flowers very small, sepals obtuse 3- 
nerved, lateral broadly ovate-oblong, dorsal much longer lanceolate, lip 
short transversely oblong with obscure basal thickenings, column short 
straight truncate. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 275. 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 5000 ft. ; on Wateakelle Hill, Thwaites. 
Stem 2-3 in., rather slender, not pseudobulbous. Leaves 1j-2j in., 5-nerved. 
Scape and raceme 2-3 in.; bracts } in., persistent, concave, not reflexed; pedicels 
6 1n. ; flowers about 4 in. across, red-purple. 
31. L. biloba, Wight Jc. vi. 1633; small, leaves 2-3 petioled ovate 
Acute undulate, flowers small, bracts 4 in. lanceolate, sepals oblong-lan- 
ceolate acute, lateral hardly falcate, lip cuneate straight shortly clawed 
-lobed 2-tubercled, lobes oblong or lanceolate obtuse, column slender 
curved, wings small obtuse. Walp. Ann. vi. 218; Ridley in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xxii, 276, 
Nienirr Hints; at Ootacamund, Wight. . 
Whole plant purplish. Slem 3 in., pseudobulb } in. Leaves 1 by j-j in., green 
9r purple, Scape 11 in. ; flowers very dark purple.— Wight likens it to Z. atropur- 
Purea, from which the 2-lobed Ep distinguishes it. 
Sect. IT. Corton. Leaves jointed at the base upon the leaf-sheath 
Or on à pseudobulb, usually coriaceous. 
* Leaf usnally solitary on the pseudobulb. Lip as long as the lateral 
Sepals or nearly so (when spread out). 
T Sepals 3-nerved (obscurely in L. Prainii). 
32. L. elegans, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1943, in Herb. Lindl. (in part), 
Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 40; leaf solitary 6-12 in. narrowly obovate-oblong or 
oblanceolate acute, scape tall stout many-fld., bracts setaceous, flowers very 
small, pedicels short, sepals obtuse revolute, lip reflexed cuneately oblong 
truncate, tip erose retuse, calli 0, column slender, wings very small, Rolje 
'^ Gard. Chron. 1886, 158; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 350. 
PENANG, Porter, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1599). PERAK, King's Collector. 
" Rootstock stout creeping ; pseudobulbs hardly developed. Leaves {-14 in. broad, 
-herved, Scape with raceme 12-18 in.; braets À in., pedicel about as long ; 
Owers as broad, yellowish. Lip obscurely 5-nerved. Capsule } in. long.— Like 
