Lrraris. ] ORCHIDACE2. 185 
in terminal racemes, resupinate or not. Sepals spreading or re- 
curved, the margins usually revolute. Petals much narrower 
than the sepals and about as long. Jip adnate to the base of the 
column, usually broad, flat or deflexed from the middle, sometimes 
concave and with calli near the base. Column elongate, often 
arched, usually winged near the apex and tumid, or dilated and 
compressed at the base. Aniher terminal; pollinia 4.—Species 
about 120, in temperate and tropical regions. 
Leaf solitary, membranous . . : - I. L. diodon. 
Leaves two, coriaceous ; d - 2. L. longipes. 
1. L. diodon, Reichb. f. in Linnea ali, 43 ; Ridley in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxii, 285 ; F. B. I.V, 695; Duthie in Ann, R. Bot. Gard. 
Cale. ix, part 2, 97. 
Leaf solitary, elongate, spathulate, obtuse, membranous. Scape angled, 
naked ; bracts minute. Sepals linear. Petals filiform. Lip cuneate, 
angled on both sides at the base, then dilated, subquadrate, crenu- 
late, apiculate. Column slender, curved, 2-toothed at. the base. 
Anther not beaked. 
Dehra Dun (Hort. W. Sanders). I have seen no specimens of this 
plant. 
2.L. longipes, Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i, 31, t. 35; F. B. 
I. V, 703 ; K. & P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 29, t. 37 ; Duthie 
id. ix, part 2, 97. L. spathulata, Lindl. 
Epiphytic. Pseudobulbs close together in a row, cy indric and stem 
like or swollen at the base, 3-6 in. long, with a few vertical strie and 
with tightly clasping sheaths. Leaves 2, jointed at the base upon 
the leaf-sheath or on pseudobulbs, 4-6 in. long, oblanceolate-oblong, 
subacute to acuminate, sometimes aristate. Inflorescence erect. 
shorter or longer than the leaves ; peduncle slender, terete, ebrateate ; 
raceme twice as long as the peduncle, manvy-flowered ; floral bracts 
linear-lanceolate, shorter than the pedicelled ovary. Flowers about 
} in. long, pale yellowish-green. Sepals 1-nerved, linear-oblong, sub- 
acute. Petals shorter than the sepals, linear, obtuse, reflexed, and 
with recurved margins as are the sepals. Lip about as long as the 
lateral sepals, broadly oblong, recurved from about the middle, 
inner margins at the base much thickened so as to form triangular 
processes but without true calli; margins entire, the apex broad 
and shortly apiculate. Column slightly curved and with small 
rounded wings. 
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