430 ORCHIDACEAE. [Liparis. 
arge eapaeses distributed over all parts of the globe, but most earng epi the 
tropics. The scanty representation of this Order in the Hawaiian group h uch 
ted upon. 
Anther terminal, lid-like, not adnate, deciduous. Pollen-masses waxy, 
without caudicles or stigmatic glands. Malaxideae. — rtieanccuens 
with pseudo-bulbs f ; 1. Liparis. 
Anthers dorsal, free at la st, but persistent. Pollen-masses granular 
cohering by caudicles to a stigmatic gre Neottieae. — Terres- 
trial, with fibrous roots and foliose stems 2. Anoectochilus. 
Anther terminal, adnate to the face of the column. Polle en-masses 
many-lobed, granular or waxy, cohering by numerous ws 
caudicles and terminating in naked glands. Ophrydeae. — Terr 
trial, with annually renewing tuberous rhizome; ei Killone 3. Habenaria. 
1. LIPARIS, L. C. Rich. 
Sepals and petals free, spreading, all alike or the petals narrower. Lip 
erect or ascending, shortly united with the column at the base, entire. 
Column elongate, incurved, winged at the top, continuous with the ovary. 
Batia? terminal, lid-like. Pollen-masses waxy, without caudicles, in two 
pairs, attached by their summits, but spreading laterally into the two 
anther-cells. — Terrestrial or epiphytic herbs. Stem often thickened at 
the base into pseudo-bulbs. Leaves few. Flowers small, greenish-yellow 
or white, in a terminal race 
A large . widely dispersed em the tropical and temperate regions of both 
hemisphere: 
1. L. Hawaiiensis, Mann, Enum. no. 488, — Epiphytical. Pseudo-bulbs 
small ovoid. Leaves 2, besides a few leaf-like scales, thin membranous, rather 
earing 3—9 thin delicate greenish- whitish flowers in its upper 
half or third. Pedicels twisted, 3”; bracts ovate, about half as long. 
Sepals ascending, linear or narrow sion olite: 4—5. Petals little ae 
filiform, spreading. Lip as long as the pals, thin membranous, ascending 
below and channelled or folded, but aha tubercles, ending in a flat 
oblong or obovate entire blade. Column erect, incurved, slender, half as 
long as a as peta 5—8“, obovate-oblong, 
state. 
On trees o} und i lower and open ag of all islands. Intermediate 
between L. Loceclét and L. hale according to 
2. ANOECTOCHILUS, Blume. 
Sepals spreading, broadly ovate, connate at the base, the upper one 
united with the petal a kind of 3-pointed helmet, the lateral ones 
oblique. Lip continuous with the column, deflected, saccate at the base 
a spurred, prolonged into a narrow channelled unguis or claw 
which is dilated and two-lobed at the apex. Column short, curved above 
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