ORCHIDACE.E 



flora Bl. Bijdr. 392. Liparis flaccida Reichb.f. in Linnsea 41 : 45. 

 The Philippine plants which I believe represent L. parviflora 

 resemble the specimens, preserved in the herbarium of the Brit- 

 ish Museum, which Ridley referred to L. flaccida (Lobb 171, 

 Horsfleld, Java). In my herbarium (12612) there is a specimen 

 collected by Weber (290) that resembles the specimen from Java 

 (Forbes) which Ridley in his monograph referred to L. parvi- 

 flora. This has an elongated, drooping inflorescence nearly 8 dm. 

 in length. L. parviflora is represented in the Philippines by the 

 following : 



Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Father M. Vanoverbergh 1535, September 

 to October. Mindanao, District of Davao, C. M. Weber 290, November 14, 

 1911. I have also seen specimens from Polillo. 



Also Java. 



22. Liparis pectinata Ridley Journ. Linn. Soc. 22 : 277. The 

 labellum of this species is cuneate-oblong, or rather indistinctly 

 pandurate, with the truncate 3-3.5 mm. wide apex fringed or pec- 

 tinate. The labellum from base to tip is about 5.5 mm. long, with 

 a callus at the base. The type consists of a single specimen col- 

 lected by Cuming in the Philippines and now preserved in the 

 Lindley Herbarium at Kew. Aside from the type, with which, 

 unfortunately, I have not compared the material on which my 

 identification is based, the collections mentioned below are the 

 only ones I have seen. Undoubtedly a very rare endemic species. 



Liparis pectinifera Ridley is a closely allied species from 

 Borneo in part distinguished by the absence of calli from the la- 

 bellum. This species is figured by J. J. Smith in Die Orchideen 

 von Java (f. ccm). L. punctifera Schltr., a native of Celebes, from 

 the description is a closely allied species. L. Nakaharai Hayata, 

 from Formosa (Icones Plantarum Formosanarum 4 : 29), is also 

 a close ally. 



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