CXXV. ORCUIDACE.f:. 679 



lanceolate, acute, narrowed into the amplexicaul sheath, plicate ; main 

 nerves 5, with numerous slender parallel veins between. Scape angular, 

 together with the raceme 4-8 in. long ; bracts ^-j in. long, lanceolate, 

 acute, spreading (not defiexed), shorter than the twisted ovary, flowers 

 green, tiuged with pink or yellow, in erect rigid racemes ; rhachis 

 angular, striate. Sepals 5-nerved ; dorsal sepal |- by -j^g- in., linear- 

 lanceolate, obtusely pointed, with revolute margins ; lateral sepals ^ by 

 i in., falcate-oblong, recurved. Petals | by ^^ in., linear, obtuse, with 

 revolute margins, reilexed. Lip i in. long and as broail as long, cuneately 

 obovate or subquadrate, often recurved from tlie middle, tip truncate or 

 slightly obcordate with a minute apiculus, and with 2 calli at the base. 

 Column incurved above the middle, with 2 small rounded wings. Fruit 

 |-f in. long, clavate, very shortly pedicellate. Trim. Yl. Ceyl. v. 4, 

 p. 145 ; Index Kevven. Suppl. 2 (1905) p. 106. Liparis paradoxa, 

 Eeichb. f. in Walp. Ann. v. 6 (1861) p. 218; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 697 ; King, in Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8, p. 27, t. 34 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PI, p. 1005 ; ? Gammie, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 16, part 4 (1905) 

 p. 565. Lipans odorata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. (1830) p. 26. 

 Malaxis nervosa, Sw. in Vet. Akad. JSTya Handl. Stockh. v. 21 (1800) 

 p. 235. Malaxis odorata, Willd. Sp. PL v. 4 (1805) p. 91 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 202.— Plowers : July-Sept. 



Eare. Konkan : Stocks'., Law I Kanaka: Law] Gammie [Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 16, part 4 (1905) p. .'^65] describes a plant very close to tlu3 which was collected by 

 Mr. Spooner on the Belgauin and N. Kanara Gliats, but the lateral sepals of that 

 plant are described as being similar to the dorsal, which is not the case in the specimens 

 of L, nervosa in Hei-b. Kew. collected by Stocks and Law. 



Var. DalzelU'i. More robust, with stems | in. in diam., leaves 4-6 

 by 2|-2| in., and much larger flowers. Liparis Dalzellii (sp.). Hook. f. 

 PI. B. I. v. 5 (1890) p. 698 : Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 518 ; Gammie, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 16, part 4 (1905) 

 p. 565. 



There is bnt 1 specimen in Herb. Kew. from the South Konkan supplied by Dalzell, 

 and no one seems to have seen another. Woodrow merely cites th,e ' Flora of British 

 India,' and Gammie says he does not know the plant. Excejjt its size, I can find no 

 difference between the variety and the typical plant, and I conclude that the variety 

 is merely an accidental luxuriant specimen grown under some peculiar conditions. 



4. DBNDROBIUM, Swartz. 



Epiphytic herbs ; pseudobulbs short and fleshy or elongated and stem- 

 like, usually tufted. Leaves sessile, never plicate, bases sheathing. 

 Plowers solitary or in fascicles or racemes, often large and showy. 

 Sepals subequal, the latter obliquely adnate to the foot of the column 

 and forming with it a sac or mentum (spur). Petals usually like the 

 sepals. Lip sessile or clawed at the base, adnate to and incumbent on the 

 foot of the column ; side lobes embracing the column or spreading or ; 

 terminal lobe broad or narrow, flat, convex, concave or saccate, its disk 

 sometimes lamellate. Column short, its foot long or short with usually 

 a nectar-secreting depression or cavity at its extremity, the apex angled 

 or 2-toothed ; anther 2-celled ; pollinia 4, equal in length, sometimes 

 in free pairs but usually all slightly coherent, the 4 never all quite 

 free, ovoid or oblong, slightly compressed, waxy. — Distkib. Species 

 about 300, Tropical Asiatic, Australasian, and Polynesian. 



