﻿LIPARIS TRIMENII, Ridley. 

 Obchide^. Tribe Liparide2E. 



L. (MoWfolia) Trimenii, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 350; 

 pan-uln, foliis 2 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis 5-nervns, scapo elongate 

 gracili tereti paucifloro, bracteis lanceolatis erecto-patentibus, sepalis 

 oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis 3-nerviis, petalis anguste lineanbus 

 deflexis, labello piano patent© late ovato-rotundato nervoso margme 

 subundnlato, callis ad basin 2 obscuris, columna elongata incurva, ahs 

 obsoletis. 



Hab. Ceylon, at Hangkele, Trimen. 



Pseudobulbi non visi. Folia 1-1$ poll- longa. Scapus una cum 

 racemo 1-3-pollicaris, bracteis pedicellis subwqnilongis. Labellum 

 £ poll, longnm. Capsula longa, ellipsoidea. 



This belongs to the section of Liparis in which the leaves are mem- 

 branous and not articulate with the sheath, and in which the up w 

 broad, flat, and neither decurved nor deflexed from the 

 non LindL), from which it seems to me to differ only in the much 

 smaller size, and less developed ca P V \ ?i! 



to thank Dr. Trimen for sending me the specimens from which the 

 accompanying figure was made. — J. D. Hooklk. 

 Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Bract and capsule. Both enlarged. 



