Liparis!\ 



Orchidece. 



143 



fr. ; bracts as long as the ov., subulate, erect or spreading; 

 fl. about \ in. long, pedicelled; lateral sep. falcately oblong, 

 gibbous, obtuse, shorter than the linear dorsal; pet. linear, 

 obtuse; lip broader than long, semicircular, with the base 

 convex, pectinately 7-toothed, mid tooth shortest, broadest, 

 triangular; column short, sides produced at the top into short 

 spreading wings; fr. \ in., ellipsoid, pedicelled. 



Moist region below 2000 ft.; on rocks in streams; very rare. Karawita 

 Kande, near Ratnapura, abundant. Fl. March, September ; yellow (.-*). 

 Endemic. 



3. IiZPARZS, Rich. 



Stems simple, tufted, pseudobulbous or not (a slender 

 rhizome in L. distichd) ; 1. solitary or few, membranous and 

 continuous with the sheath, or thicker and jointed on the 

 sheath or pseudobulb; fl. in terminal racemes; sep. spreading, 

 margins recurved or revolute ; pet. as long, narrowly linear ; 

 lip inferior, adnate to the base of the column, usually broad 

 and deflexed or recurved from the base; column long, in- 

 curved, usually slender, often winged towards the top; anth. 

 terminal, 2-celled, pollinia 4, ovoid, waxy. — Sp. about 120; 64 

 in FL B. Ind. 



Raceme with quaquaversal fl., bracts membranous. 

 L. plaited, not jointed on the sheath. 

 Stem very short or o. 



L. solitary i. L. Thwaitesii. 



L. 2 or 3. 



L. 2-3 in. long .... 

 L. i-i^ in. long .... 

 Stem elongate. 



Bracts minute 



Bracts moderately long. 

 Column long, very stout 

 Column long, slender. 

 Wings of column uncinate 

 "Wings of column rounded 

 Column short .... 

 L. subcoriaceous, jointed on the sheath. 

 Raceme shorter than the 1. 

 Raceme longer than the 1. 



Lip deflexed from the middle . 

 Lip deflexed from near the base 

 Raceme with distichous fl. . . . 



I. Zi. Thwaitesii, Hk.f. itt Fl. B. Ind. v. 692 (1890). 

 L. Wightiana, Thw. Enum. 295 (part). Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xxii. 278. C. P. 3179 (part). 



Fl. B. Ind. v. 692. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2006. 



Stem short, swollen at the base, closely sheathed ; 1. 

 solitary, 2^-3 in. long, sessile or very shortly petioled, ovate or 



2. L. Wightiana. 



3. L. Trimenii. 



4. L. BARB ATA. 



5. L. NERVOSA. 



L. Walkeri^. 

 L. atropurpurea. 



L. BRACHYGLOTTIS. 



9. L. OBSCURA. 



10. L. LONGIPES. 



11. L. VIRIUIFLORA. 



12. L. DISTICHA. 



