﻿Plate 1810. 



LIPARIS PULCHELLA, Eooh.f. 



Orchide*;. Tribe Liparideji. 



datig, scapo gracili nudo, racemo laxe-pancifloro, bracteis parvis lan- 

 ceolatis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis 3-nerviis marginibus revolutis, 

 petalis anguste linearibus decurvis, labello oblongo v. obovato-oblongo 

 retuso v. acuto callis 2 basi minutis, columna gracili incurva alis ter- 

 minalibus minutis rotundatis v. uncinatis. L. rapestris var. purpuras- 

 cens, Ridley in Journ. Linn, Sac. xxii. 268. 



Hab. Khasia Hills ; at My rung, Moflong, and Surureem, alt. 5,000 

 to 6,000 ft., J. D. H. and T. T. (Herb. Lid. Or. Liparis, No. 7). Naga 



_ . . 1-3 poll, longus. Folia Lf-2 poll, longa, J 

 Scapus una cum racemo 3-6-pollicaris ; bracteas ^ poll, 

 longae); pedicelli filiformes. Labellnm £ poll, longum, purpurascens, 

 basi rotundatum, callis obscuris, marginibus minutissime erosis. 



A beautiful species, allied to L. nepalensis, but much smaller and 

 more slender, with much smaller bracts and a broader lip. Ridley 

 makes of this a variety of his L. rwpestris, Griff., which is not Grit- 

 fiths' plant. His description of rupestris is made up of that of Crnt- 

 fith (' Notul.' iii. 276), of which no specimens are known to exist and 

 Reichenbach's L. rostrata, which is a very different species.— J. U. 

 Hooker. 



