G92 CXLVIII. ORCHiDEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lipuris. 



membranous and continuous with their shrath, or thicker and jointed on 

 the sheath or pseudobulb. Flowers Fmall, in terminal racemes, resupinate. 

 Sepals spreading, recurved or revolute, margins often revoltite. Petals 

 as long, very slender. Lip adnate to the base of the column, usually 

 broad, deflexed from a very short base, or recurved. Column long, in- 

 curved, margined or winged towards the tip ; anther terminal ; pollinia 4. 

 Species about 100, temperate or tropical. 



Sect. I. MoLLiFOLijE. Leaves membranous, not jointed at the base on 

 their sheath or pseudobulb, usually broad, often petioled. 



* Lip broad, abruptly deflexed from very baee, flat or with deflexed 

 sides. Sepals narrow and petals with recurved or revolute margins ; 

 lateral sepals usually placed under the lip. 



f" Leaf solitary. 



1. Zi. cordifolia, Hook.f. Ic. PL t. 1811 ; leaf solitary sessile broadly 

 rounded-ovate deeply cordate amplexicaul, bracts small triangular or lanceo- 

 late, pedicels long filiform, sepals lanceolate acute 3-nerved, lip large flat 

 obcordate or orbicular-obovate apiculate crenulate, column very slender 

 incurved. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA (drawing in Herb. Kew). SIKKIM ; at Yoksun, 

 alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. KHASIA Mis., alt. 3-6000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. $ T. T. 

 (Liparis, No. 8). 



Pseudobulbs short, stout, crowded. Stem short, stout. Leaves 2-5 by 1^-4 in., 

 acuminate ; nerves distant, faint. Scape naked, with the raceme 4-5 in. Sepals 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved ; lip ^-J in. long, yellow-green, base narrow, callus obscure. 

 Column obscurely winged. Referred to L. rupestris, Griff., by Ridley, but the 

 flowers are large and the bracts minute. 



2. Zi. rupestris, Griff. Notul. iii. 276 ; " pseudobulb formed after 

 flowering obpyriform sheathed, leaf solitary petioled broadly cordate acute, 

 scape angled and winged, bracts minute lanceolate much shorter than the 

 pedicels, flowers small resupinate, sepals linear convolute, lateral placed 

 under the flat oblong membranous veined lip, column forming a semicircle 

 top clavate margined." Griffith. 



KHASIA MTS. ; on rocks at Nunklow, Griffith. 



I know of no Khasian small -flowered plant answering to this description, nor can 



1 follow Ridley in his reference to it of Reichenbach's L. rostrafa, or of the Nunklow 

 plant of myself and Thomson (which is, I think, nepalensis), or of Royle'sand Thom- 

 son's N.W. Indian species. Ridley's v&r. purpurascens, with 2 leaves, from Sikkim, 

 collected by myself, is L. pulchella. 



3. Zi. Thwaitesii, Hook. f. ; loaf solitary petioled ovate-cordate 

 acute 5-nerved, bracts lanceolate, sepals lanceolate 3-nerved, lip broadly 

 oblong or subobovate retuse base 2-toothed, column slender incurved with 



2 erect teeth. L. Wightiana in part, Tfncailcs Enum. 294; Ridh-y in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 278. 



CEYLON; in the Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 3179). 



Pseudobulbs tufted; stem 1-3 in., rather slender, sheaths acute. Leaf 2-3 in., 

 crenulate, nerves strong. Scape 2-6 in. ; bracts in., shorter than the ca- 

 pillary pedicels ; lip \ in. long, red-purple, covering the sepals, contracted below 

 the narrow 2-auricled base. Very different from Wight's L. atropurpurea, with 

 which Thwaites and Ridley have united it, in the solitary petioled crenulate leaf, 

 column, &c. 



