144 Orchidec€. [Liparis. 



ovate-cordate, acuminate, 5-7-veined, membranous, margin 

 undulatc-crenulate, base equal-sided; ped. with the long-fld. 

 raceme slender, nearly 6 in. high, with a few lanceolate empty- 

 bracts; bracts shorter than the slender pedicel and ovary, 

 spreading ; fl. suberect, | in. long; sep. 3-veined, flat, dorsal, 

 linear, obtuse, reflexed, lateral much broader, oblong, acute, 

 placed under the lip, 3-veined; pet. very narrowly linear, 

 I -veined, falcately decurved; lip rather longer than the sep., 

 broadly or cuneately obovate, flat, tip rounded or retuse, disk 

 5-veined, with 2 small acute calli at the very base, lateral 

 veins branching outwards ; column slender, strongly incurved 

 towards the 2-toothed tip. 



Moist low country; rare. I have only seen one specimen collected 

 by Thwaites in Pasdun Korale. V\. Aug. 

 Endemic. 

 Thwaites and Ridley did not distinguish this from L. Wighttana. 



2. Zi. Wlgrhtiana, Thw. Enutn. 295 (1861). 



L. atropurpurea, Wight, Ic. iii. II. 9 (non Lindl.). C. P. 3179. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 695. Wight, Ic. t. 904. 



Stem short, base swollen; 1. 2, subopposite, sessile or 

 petioled, 2-3 in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3-5 veined, membranous, often purple, base rounded, equal- 

 sided; petiole o-f in.; ped. with the lax-fld. raceme 2-4 in., 

 naked; bracts ovate-lanceolate, half as long as the pedicel 

 and ovary; fl. about \ in. long; sep. oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 3-veined, dorsal reflexed, lateral placed under the 

 lip; pet. narrowly linear, falcately decurved, margins revolute; 

 lip orbicular or orbicular-oblong, \-\ in. long, flat, tip rounded, 

 retuse, or notched, veins radiating, base of disk with 2 minute 

 calli; column very slender, strongly incurved from the swollen 

 base, tip 2-toothed. 



Shady places in montane zone 3-6000 ft.; rather common. Hantane; 

 Madulkelle; Dimbula; Wattakelle; Maturata; N. Eliya. Fl. September- 

 November; sep. green, lip usually purple, sometimes yellowish-green, and 

 the flowers considerably larger (not smaller, as stated in Fl. B. Ind.) than 

 those of L. Thwaitesii. The leaves often more or less purple. 



Also Mts. of S. India. 



There is in Herb. Peraden. a figure of a plant named by Trimen 

 L. Wightiana^ Thw. Van, with much stouter pedicels, smaller all green fl., 

 and a more quadrate lip, |\, in. diam. 



3. Xt. Trimenil, Ridley in Jour fi. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 350 (1888). 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 167. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 695. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1836. 



Stem o-l in., hardly pseudobulbous ; 1. 2-3, sessile or very 

 shortly petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, strongly many-veined, 

 base equal-sided, acute or cuneate; ped. with lax-fld. raceme 



