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Liparis FOLIOSA. MANY-LEAVED 
.  Liraris. 
Class and Order. Sat 
-Greanoaia Monanpnia. é 
( Nat. Ord —Oncmex. ‘Div. Mitsxe.. Linp. ) 
Generic Character. 
Labellum planum, explanatum,, integrum, varie versum. 
Columna cote Pollinia & (ankle: St ae Linpt. 
| Specific Character and Symongy 
Livi gation & ‘pulbo rotundato, foliis i ' 
olatis carinatis enerviis racemo su bequalibus, scapo 
compresso, labello- apice reflexo obscure tridentato. 
Liraris foliosa. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 882.5) 
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Descr. Plant, to all appearance, parasitic. Bulb round-. 
ish, about an inch in diameter, bearing a few ovate, acute | 
bractee at the base, and, at the summit, about three an- 
ceolate, carinate, somewhat fleshy, : acute, nerveliaerecurvell 
leaves. The scape springs from the centre of those 1 aves, 
which, being the present year’s production, have no bulb 
yet formed. It rather exceeds the leaves in length, is com- 
pressed, and bears about ten flowers i in a lax spike or raceme. 
The segments of the perianth are all linear, pale yellow 
green, reflexed, the two innermost ones the narrowest. 
The labellum broadly oblong, yellow green, with an orange 
spot in the centre, thick and fleshy, the lower half erect, 
and appressed as it were to the column, the u per half bent 
down ; the extremity has three obtuse teeth. Co/wmn linear- 
clavate, curved, margins in front slightly winged. 
yellow, operculate, enclosing two didymous waxy pollen- 
masses. Germen linear, straight, tapermg down into a 
footstalk, and having, at its very base, a small sions 
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