: Liparis.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 703 
habitat is an error, In Lindley's Herbarium the plant is ticketed by Griffith as 
from the Brahmakoond. 
45, L. Scortechini, Hook.f; pseudobulb long stout, leaf 14 by 
2; in. linear-oblong acute 5-nerved, scape as long as the leaf flowering 
to the base, rachis very stout, bracts small lanceolate, sepals recurve , 
margins recurved, lip nearly straight longer than the sepals flabella e y 
obcordate from a narrow 2-auricled 2-tubercled neck, lobes deeply crenate, 
column slender incurved, wings obscure. 
PERAK, Seortechini. . - 
Pseudobulb subcylindric, 44 by 1 in. Leaves sessile. Raceme jaxly many 4d. 
rachis } in. diam. ; bracts i in.; pedicels 4-4 in—Near L. latifo ch M ller limb 
the bracts are much smaller, lip with a longer narrower neck and muc "Scortechini. 
A very fine species, of which I have seen only a drawing by Father ; 
numbered 1518, but which does not correspond with the plant so numbered in his 
collection. 
46. L. flaccida, Reichb. f. in Linnea xii. 44; leaves = £10 in, 
Scape and raceme very long slender, bracts minute, po les, th revolute. 
Owers very small, sepals obtuse 3-nerved flattish, lateral a poet iate, tir, 
lip recurved narrow oblong dilated below the middle and there ci secure. 
2-fid, lobes triangular subacute, calli 0, column incurved, wings o 
Ridley in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxii. 296. 
PERAK, King's llector.— DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. . : 
Pseudobulb in Peut spns. small; in Javan very large, 2 by ei much 
erak spns. 8-10 by $ in., narrowed from near the lip to the pase, in flowering 
Toader, nerves 5-9, Scape with raceme much longer than the leaves, 
. : in. : bout 
Nearly to the base, bracts lanceolate membranous; pedicels 1-3 in.; flower a 
vo in, across, 
tt Sepals 1-nerved (unknown in L, vestita). 
47. L. longipes, Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 31, t. 35, Sing tn 
(in part); Gen. d Sp. Orchid. 40; leaves 2 linear obova " ong or 
very many small white, sepals obtuse at length revo alli 0, column in- 
recurved yellow broadly ovate subacute rather fleshy, ca "993 (excl. syn. 
curved, wings rounded. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. o5 ` L. pendula, 
L. elegans, Lindl.) ; Wight Tc. t. 906; Thwaites Enum. 29 'p "hi 1868 
Lindl. in Bot, Reg. 1838, Misc. 180; Regel Ind. Sem. Hort. P Do ohb i 
| pe Spatbulata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1849. ? L. nesop "1864, Suppl 
"i Hamb. i, 56. ? L. Boothii, Regel Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. , 
TRorrcar, HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Kumaon eastwards MP 
and the Kuasta Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft., and southwards to P5000 ft.—Distrin. 
Hi sea Hits and southwards. CEYLON, common below ` 
alay and Paci s, China, . lindri 12 
Pieudobul (en ovaa. or long sometimes 6 in. and cylindric., Zeev IL 
by 1-14 in., obtuse, acute or acuminate, 5-7-nerved. Scape bit nd foliage, but 
With a few bracts below the flowers, slender.— Variable in habi a sometinics de- 
Constant in inflorescence and flowers. The sepals are not acute, a vervwhere with 
Seri he form with short pseudobulbs (Z. spathulata) occurs every 
the long Pseudobulbed, and intermediates abound. 
; ; ; bs approximate 
48. L. vesti ‘hb. f. in Flora 1872, 274; pseudobul i 
Subterete rod like iaei kie clothed with broad sheaths, leaves cu 
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