MALAXIDE Æ. PLEUROTHALLEÆ. 4d 
32. Liparis gregaria. 
L. foliis ensiformibus acutis in pseudo-bulbis ovatis solitarii, scapo anci- 
piti, rachi alatà, bracteis distichis carinatis pectinatis, labello truncato, 
sepalis reflexis, petalis erectis. 
Malaxis disticha. Thouars t. 89. 
Liparis disticha. Lindley in B. Reg. 882. A. Rich. orch. Maur. p. 54. 
Stelis micrantha. Sieber. Herb. Maur. n. 168. 
Hab. supra rupes in sylvis montium Zeylone, florens Novembri ; Macrae; 
Mauritio, Sieber; Borbonia, Thouars. (habeo s. sp. et v. iconem pictam.) 
Rhizoma articulatum, annulatum, intricatum, pseudo-bulbos plurimos gre- 
garios promens. Spice lanceolate, bracteis ovatis acuminatis. Flores 
viridi-lutei; sepala lateralia ovata acuta labello supposita; supremum 
reflexum ; petala linearia erecta. Clinandrium marginatum cavum, 
antice bilobum cum mucrone. 
Obs. Epidendrum biflorum, Kénig Mss. in Zeylona lectum, fort? hujus loci. 
Planta Zeylanica a Mauritiano Herbarii Sieberiani n. 168 nullo modo 
differt; labellum tamen hujus secundum auctores celeberrimos suprà 
citatos tridentatum, dum in nostra certissime truncatum dente nullo, nisi 
sic angulos truncaturz dicas. 
I formerly called this by the specific name given to it by M. Du Petit 
Thouars under the genus Malaxis, being at that time unacquainted with 
any others with the same remarkable distichous inflorescence. More being 
now known, I avail myself of the privilege which an author undoubtedly 
possesses of altering his own names if he thinks fit, although no one else 
can be suffered to do it for him. 
* Liparis spuria. 
33. Liparis serrzformis. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 1946. 
Hab. supra arbores Zeylone, Macrae; Attran Martabanie, et Tavoy Indie 
Orientalis, Wallich. (hab. s. sp. e Museo Anglo-Indico et Zeylond, et v. ic. 
pict. sine fl.) : 
Planta epiphyta caulibus teretibus ramosis subancipitibus radices plurimos 
longissimos intricatos undique promens, pseudo-bulbo nullo. Folia dis- 
ticha, coriacea, oblonga, v. oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa, decidua. Ra- 
cemi oppositifolii, foliis longiores, pedunculo angulato non ancipiti, rachi 
alatà, bracteis falcatis, ovatis, carinatis, distichis, pectinatis, in rachi de- 
currentibus. Florem unicum tantum vidi mutilum, cui quantum videre 
licuit, sepala ovata succulenta libera patentia venis 7 subsimplicibus, 
petala conformia pauld minora, labellum truncatum trilobum lobo medio 
apice calloso, callo altero luteo intra-apiculari, denique columna libera, 
fort? basi producta antherA ovata biloculari, polliniis 4 angustis collate- 
ralibus liberis. 
_ This singular plant when properly examined will possibly be found dis- 
tinct from the genus in which it is now placed ; all that I have been able 
to ascertain satisfactorily, from the inspection of a single mutilated flower, 
1s that the pollen masses are as I have described them, and that the plant 
elongs to Malaxidee. The peculiar winged rachis and carinate bractee 
forming a kind of pectinated inflorescence is exactly that of L. gregaria, 
disticha and some others ; but the plant differs from them in having no ten- 
dency to form bulb-like stems, in room of which it has the taper woody 
rooting stems and coriaceous distichous leaves of Aerides and its allies. 
Aqril, 1830, F 
