﻿LIPABIS GLOSSULA, Beichb. f. 



Orchidej!. Tribe Liparideje. 



I. (Mollifolia) Glossula,i2e c£&./. mLinncea, xli. 43 ; terrestris, caule 

 monophyllo, folio elliptico-lanceolato acuto in petiolum latiusculum 

 angustato integerrimo, scapo valido, bracteis elongatis lineari-lanceo- 

 latis erectis, sepalis patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis 3-nerviis mar- 

 gimbus revolutis, petalis anguste linearibus, labello late obovato- 

 oblongo cuspidato crenulato ecalloso, colamna incurva alis obscuris 

 ■Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 268. 



7 *^ B - Western and Central Himalaya; Kumaon, alt. 5,000 to 

 /,000 ft., Edgeworth, Strachey and Winterbottom (L. nepalen* 

 Nepal, Wallich ■ Sikkim, at Chumbi, King's Collector. 



Pseudobulbi ovoidei 1-1 1 pollicares. Gaulis 2-3-pollicaris, vaginis 

 obtusis appressis tectus. Folium 2-G-pollicare, -f-U poll, latum, 

 nervis gracilibus. Scapus cum racemo 4-7-pollicaris; bracte® H 

 poll. longa3, ovario breviores. Labellum. |-^ poll, longum. Golumna 

 gracilis, incurva, alis ad apicem minutis rotundatis.— J. D. Hooker. 

 Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Sepal. Both enlarged. 



