Liparis tipuloides ( Lindl.) Schlechter in Fedde 
Repert. Beihefte 19 (1928) 91. 
Microstyls tipuloides Lindley in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 15 (1845) 256. 
Malaais tipulodea O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. 2 (1891) 
673. 
Liparis eustachys Schlechter in Fedde Repert. Bei- 
hefte 19 (1923) 91. 
i agree with Schlechter that the species described as 
Microstyls tipuloides should be transferred to the genus 
Liparis, for, although it has an abbreviated column, the 
anther appears to be opercular and incumbent as in Lip- 
aris and not erect as in Malaxis. 
Although Microstylis tipuloides originated in Colom- 
bia (Popayan), it was reported in 1866 from Costa Rice 
(near San Miguel) by H.G. Reichenbach. 
As aresult of Ridley’s rather misleading description 
of Microstylis tipuloides in his monograph in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. 24 (1888) 382, Schlechter erected Liparis eu- 
stachys declaring that his new species doubtless repre- 
sented Reichenbach’s Costa Rican record of Microstylis 
tipuloides. Schlechter’s statement that the leaves of the 
latter species are shorter and narrower than those of the 
Costa Rican form is not borne out by an examination of 
a photograph of typical Microstylis tipuloides. In this 
record the leaves are approximately similar to those de- 
picted in a drawing of the type of Liparis eustachys of 
which the supposedly shorter inflorescence is quite im- 
mature toward the apex. The flowers of each species ap- 
pear to be of nearly the same size and form, with the 
exception that in Microstylis tipuloides the lip is repre- 
sented as acuminate, whereas in Liparis eustachys it is 
shown as acute. 
