Tar. 7804. 
LIPARIS trroatrosa. 
Native of the Malay Peninsula and Sulu Archipelago. 
Nat. Ord. Oncu1pEa.—Tribe Eprpenprea. 
Genus Liraris, Rich.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 495.) 
Liraris (Mollifolia) ¢ricallosa; caule brevi vix pseudobulboso, foliis 3-5 
sessilibus 4-8 poll. longis ellipticis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 
5-7-nerviis membranaceis pallide viridibus marginibus undulatis nervisque 
subtus rubris, pedunculo rhachique racemi’ elongati laxe-multiflori 
angulatis rubris, bracteis parvis ovato-lanceolatis, pedicellis cum ovario 
1-14 poll. longis rubris, sepalis pollicaribus loriformibus obtusis citrinig. 
lateralibus infra labellum positis, petalis sepalis paullo brevioribus recurvis, 
ob margines revolutos filiformibus rubris, labelli breviter unguiculati 
lamina suborbiculari subacuta plana deflexa 2 poll. lata aurea lineis 
saturate rubris creberrime picta, ungue tricalloso, callis lateralibus 
reniformibus intermedio minuto globoso, colamna minuta incurva 
marginibus supra medium dilatatis, capsula ellipsoidea. 
L. tricallosa, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. i. pp. 225, 684 e¢ 1901, fig. 85. 
Ridley in Journ. Linn, Soe. Bot. vol. xxii. (1886) p. 275. 
L. venosa, Ridley |.c. vol. xxiv. (1888) p. 350, e¢ vol. xxxii. (1896) p. 224. 
A very well-marked Liparis, discovered by Mr. Bur- 
bidge, F.L.S., Curator of the Trinity College Botanic 
Gardens (author of “The Gardens of the Sun’’), in the 
Sulu Archipelago ; and more recently found in the Malay 
Peninsula, at Perak, Johore, and Singapore. The sepals 
vary in colour, being lemon-yellow in the specimen here 
figured. ‘The petals and striations of the lip are lake red, 
rather than carmine as described by Mr. Ridley in his 
L. venosa, which is unquestionably conspecific. 
L. tricallosa was introduced into cultivation by Mr. 
Bull, who in 1879 flowered a plant of it received from 
its discovereyx, which was described by Reichenbach as 
cited above.* The specimen here figured was presented to 
the Royal Gar@ens, Kew, by the Right Honourable Joseph 
Chamberlain, Sécretary of State for the Colonies, in full 
flower, in June, 1900. 
Descr.—Stem short, stout, hardly pseudobulbous. Leaves 
three to five, sessile, four to eight inches long, elliptic- or 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, five to seven-nerved, mem- 
branous, margins waved, and nerves beneath red. Raceme 
NovemsBeR Ist, 1901. 
