Micros! i/lt's.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 691 



19. BX. versicolor, Wight Ic. t. 901 (not of Lindl.) ; stem short, 

 pseudobulb ovoid, leaves 2 rarely 3 sessile or shortly petioled ovate to 

 lanceolate, raceme usually deuse-fld., bracts lanceolate deflexed, flowers 

 small, lip short cuneate or subreniform pectinately toothed, style-arms 

 spreading subacute. M. pratensis, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 344. 

 Liparis densiflora, A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 18, t. 1 B. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the hills from the Nilghiris southwards. CEYLON ; 

 at Eatnapoora, Thwaites. 



Nearly allied to M. Sheedii, but always small and pseudobulbous, with sessile or 

 subsessile leaves and smaller flowers iu denser spikes. The lip accords well, as does 

 the column. Flowers yellow or purple. Thwaites, and, following him, Ridley, refer 

 Thwaites' 2743 to M. Sheedii, but its habit and pseudobulbs are entirely those of 

 rersicolor ; on the ticket Thwaites names it Jtf. luteola, to which species also 

 Ridley refers it (by oversight in one or the other case). 



VAR. luteola; flowers larger. M. luteola, Wight Ic. t. 1632; Ridley I. c. 345 

 (excl. Hob. Ceylon]. Nilghiri Hills, Wight. I find no other difference than the 

 size of the flower whereby to distinguish this from M. versicolor. 



20. HI. lancifolia, Thwaites Enum. 269; stemless, pseudobulb sirall 

 or 0, leaves 5-8 rather long-petioled lanceolate acuminate, raceme dense-fld., 

 bracts lanceolate suberect, flowers small, lip short almost semicircular 

 with the convex margin to tbe column the other deeply 6-8-toothed, column 

 stout, arms suberect. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 346 ; Hook.f. Ic. 

 Plant, t. 1830. 



CEYLON ; in the Saffragam and Ambagamowa districts, Thwaites. 



Moot fibrous. Leaves 2-4 by ^-f in., 3-nerved; petiole \-\\ in., rather slender. 

 Scape and raceme 4-6 in. ; flowers about ^ in. across, yellow ? Resembles a narrow- 

 leaved M. 'versicolor with long petioles. The suberect bract is an excellent character 

 indicated by Thwaites. 



21. HI. Stocksii, Hook. f.Ic. PL t. 1833 ; leaves 2-3 shortly petioled 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, bracts lanceolate deflexed, flowers rather large, lip 

 much broader than long transversely oblong or very broadly flabeliit'orm 

 deeply palmately lobed strongly nerved, arms of column suberect rather 

 broad. M. luteola, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. (not of Wight). 



The DECCAN PENINSCLA; on the Bababoodan Hills in Canara, Stocks, &c. 



Stem 1-2 in. Leaves l|-3 in., 3-5-nerved. Scape with raceme 2-4 in. ; flowers 

 yellow, ^ in. across. This differs from all the preceding species in the great breadth 

 and deep lacinise of the lip, and further from M. versi'-olor (to the var. luteola of 

 which it approaches in the large flowers) in the absence of pseudobulbs. 



22. IU. crenulata, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 346; stem short 

 hardly psendobulbous, leaves 1 or 2 shortly petioled lanceolate, scape and 

 raceme 4 in., bracts lanceolate deflexed, flowers small, lip shortly clawed 

 round ed-reniform crenulate, column broader and snorter than in M. 

 Rheedii 



WESTERN NILGHIRIS, Beddome (in Herb. Mus. Brit.). 



The above description from the work quoted barely suffices to distinguish this from 

 M. Rheedii) except by the fewer leaves, and less deeply cut lip. 



3. LIPARIS, Richard. 

 Terrestrial or epiphytic ; pseudobulbous or not. Leave* 1 or more, 



