MALAXfS. 



ORCHIDES. 217 



53. MALAXIS QUERCI , De Vriese , ic. 238 ; a small stemless species with purplish 

 brown verlicillaie flowers. Structure unknown. 



The following are to be excluded from the gemis. 



54. OBERONIA LINDLEYANA , Ad. Brongn. Voyage de la Coquille , t. 40. is probably 

 Adenoncos virens as Rchb. fil. has suggested. 



55. OBERONIA GLADIATA , A. Richard in Sert.j ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^.^^^ ^„„^^,^^ ^^^. 



56. OBERONIA MICRANTHA, Ib. . t. 3, j ^^^''^" '' '''' '^^^"«^' ^«'P^'^ •^^^'^"''^' 



1338. ]lBPHEI..%PHiriiIilJM Bl. 



(Bijdr. 372. Tabellen22.) 



1. NEPHELAPHYLLUM TENUIFLORUM bC De Vriese Illustr. t. 12. f.'3. 



Obs. 1. Nephelaphylli genus ad Epidendreas pertinetl 



Obs. 2. Nephelaphyllum a Lindleyo et a me ex icone tam pessima, quam falsissima 

 Biumeana felicissime recognitum. Non satis mirandum, Blumeum in libro novo, quo 

 icones illustrationibns suis edit , aliorum icones urgere , dam ipse imagines proiu- 

 lit, quibus falsius quid nemo reperiet. 



1339. €OR.%IiI<ORHIZA Hall 



(Hist. 2. 159. - Walp. Ann. III. 526.) 



1. CORALLORHIZA MACRAEI Gray Manual 453(18561). Plant purplish , stout (6'— 16' 

 high), bearingl5 — 20 large flowers in a crowded spike, on very short pedicels ; lip 

 oval, very obtuse , raiher fleshy (purple) , 3 nerved, perfectly entire , concave . the 

 margins incurved , the sessile base obscurely auricled and with 1—3 short lamellae ; 

 spur none at ali; pod ovoid (Va' long). — Woods , along Lakes Huron and Superior 

 (Mackinaw C. G. Loring, Tr. Whitney etc. , West Canada, W. F. Macrae). — Sepais 

 «nd petals 6"— 8" ilong, conspicuously 3 nerved; but this cannot be C. striata, 

 LindL, which is said to have a three lobed and acute lip etc. Flowers the largest of 

 the genus. 



1340. lilP.%RI.«( L C. Rich. 

 (Rich. Orch. Eur. 30. f. 10. — Walp. Ann. II. 527.) 



Obs. Lubenter Sturmiae nomen postpono. Etenim nomina baud cognitissima (e. gr. 

 Equus, Bos , Elephas, Scorpio , Tinea ) certe in utroque regno organico adhiberi 

 posse nunc quidem omnes seniire debemus, ubi neuirum regnum uni homini bene 

 cognitum. 



Sect. I. STURMIA: folia plicata. 



1. LIPARIS ODORATA Lindl. Orch. 26. Cf. Hooker Journ. of Bot. VH. Lindl. in Benth. 

 Flor. Hongk. p. 33: ..very near L. nervosa, but the column has an even , not an 

 acutely toothed margin, ihe sepals are oblong and very fleshy . the flowers also ap-s 

 pear to be whole coloured and green. It is the same as the plant found in Chi- 

 Kiang by Fortune. 



2. LIPARiS NERVOSA Lindl. Orch. p. 26. — Rchb. fll. in Bonpl. IIL 250 (sub Sturmia). 

 Planta spithamaea. Folia tria lanceolata acuminata bene plicata. Pedunculus elon- 

 gaius angulatus apice distanti racemosus. Bracteae acuminatae ovariis pediceilatis 

 subbreviores. Sepala lateralia semiovata acuta ; sepalum dorsale lirffeare acutum. Te- 

 pala linearia acuta. Labellum flabellatum npice obtusangulum, retusura , cum apiculo, 

 margine hinc subiiliter crenulatum ; falculae geminae ante basin. Gynosiemiura supra 

 labelii basin adnaium ab apicc membrana hinc denticulata medium versus alatum. 

 Hongkong. Hance' 



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