ORCHIDACE^ 13 



Column slender, incurved. 



Leaf 2-2.5 cm. wide. 4. C. compressa (Lindl.). 



Leaf 11 mm. wide. 5. C. Cumingii (Lindl.). 



Column stout. 6. C. Elmeri, Ames. 



Lip obovate, mucronate. 7. C. Merrilli, Ames. 

 Lip lanceolate, emucronate. 



Leaves oblanceolate. 8. C. benguetensis, Ames. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate. 9. C. philippinensis, Ames. 



Mr. Ridley in his Monograph of the genus Liparis places Lipa- 

 ris mucronata, Lindl., under L. distlcha as a synonym, and this 

 treatment is followed by Sir J. D. Hooker in the Flora of British 

 India. The latter author in the same work expresses the opinion 

 that L. Cumingii, a plant (collected in Bopol, — Bohol ? — one of 

 the Philippine Islands) erroneously ascribed by Mr. Ridley to 

 Malacca, is hardly different from L. compressa. 



