708 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J, D. Hooker.) [ Liparis. 
minutely denticulate in front, calli minute, column curved hardly dilated in front.— 
Assam ? (Hort. Strickland).—Uuknown. 
L. TRISTIS, Loddiges Orchid. p. 4, cult. by Lodd'ges, from Ceylon; name only, 
Lirazis, “Ceylon, Loddiges” l c., name only. Ridley has referred to this 
(Journ, Linn, Soc. xxii. 297) as L. “zeylanica,’ but Lcddiges has given it no 
specific name. 
4 PLATYCLINIS, Benth. 
Tufted epiphytes, pseudobulbs narrow or 0. Leaves solitary, petioli 
Flowers small, in a terminal raceme ; bracts very rigid, straight, convoiu x 
Sepals and petals spreading. Lip sessile or shortly clawed, narrow 0 
broad. Column erect, short or rather long, sides produced into 2 -— 
branous points, wings or arms, tip produced into an entire or cleft hood; 
anther incumbent, 2-celled ; pollinia 4, waxy, ovoid, superposed, cohering 
in pairs in separate cells.—Species about 20, Malayan. m 
The rigid pale narrow convolute grooved glumaceous bracts are very characteristic 
of this genus. 
l. P. gracilis, Hook. f.; leaves linear-lanceolate obtuse, scape we 
slender, bracts acute half as long as the very shortly pedicelled tome 
sepals à in. long broadly lanceolate finely acuminate 3-nerved, peta late 
long linear-oblong, lateral lobes of lip rounded crenulate, tips age? 
spreading, midlobe cuneate, tip rounded, disk with an elevated green co 
ceous 3-furcate ridge, column slender with gladiate arms. 
PERAK ; alt. 4-5000 ft., King’s Collector. . 
Pseudobulbs 1 in., subeylindrie, Leaf 4-6 by 1 in., petiole lin. Soape ni 
and raceme 12 in. ; bracts j in.; flowers yellowish-white. Lateral nerves o 
and petals very faint, 
2. P. Kingii, Hook. f.; leaves linear-lanceolate, raceme, ap Led 
duncled few-fld., bracts almost as long as the flowers, sepals 4 m. nulate 
lanceolate finely acuminate, lateral 5-nerved, lip with rounded calli, 
side lobes, midlobe ovate acute veined, disk with 2 small curve 
column very short, hood with a very thick dorsal ridge. 5) 
PERAK, Scortechini, King’s Collector. —DistR1B. ? Borneo (Beccari, No. rs 
Pseudobulb 3-1 in., narrowly ovoid. Leaves 3-7 in., subacute or acu se 
rather thin; petiole 1 in. Scape and raceme about equalling the eaves? plant 
i in., acute; flowers 3 in. across, pale yellow, lip light green.—The pee are 
differs in having a longer column which has not a dorsal ridge, and E difficulty 
longer. The column of P. Kingii is so minute and short that I bad grea . 
in finding the wings. 
ó, TIPULARIA, Nutt. 
. ioled. 
Terrestrial herbs; pseudobulb small. Leaf solitary, ovate, Pirro, 
Scape long; flowers loosely racemose. Sepals spreading and Pe teral lobes 
subequal. Lip much smaller than the sepals, sessile, suberect, ects anther 
rounded, midlobe flat; spur long, slender. Column slender oroe d to tbe 
2-celled with a short filiform stipes ending in a gland atta ‘lowing an 
rostellum (as in Vandee); pollinia 4, distinct.— DISTRIB. The to 
a N. American species. lip with 
i 
T. Josephi, Reichb. f. mss. ; sepals 3-nerved, petals 1-ne m in Fourn. 
large side lobes, midlobe ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute. Lind? 
Linn. Soc. i. 174, 
