694 i xi. vin. ORCHIDE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_L'/>aris. 



1^-2 in., subacute, nerves very faint; petiole as long, slender. Scape and raceme 

 36 in., slender; bracts \ $ in. ; pedicels slender; lip in. long, call! very obscure, 

 base rounded. Near L. nepalensis, but much smaller, more slender, and with lip of a 

 different shape and a column with hooked wings. 



9. Zi. rostrata, ReicJib. f. in Linncea xli. 44; leaves 2 opposite sub- 

 sessile or petioled elliptic ovate or oblong obtuse or subacute narrowed at 

 the base, bracts small broad, sepals lanceolate 3-nerved, lip very broadly 

 obcordate flat crenulate apiculate yellow-green, ralli 0. column short rather 

 stout incurved with a small rounded wing. HooJc.f. Tc. Pl.t. 1813. L. 

 olivacea in part, Herb. Tnd. Or. H.f. 8f T. (not of Lindl.}. L. rupestris in 

 part, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 145 (not of Griffith}. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, Royle; Simla, alt. 6-8000 ft, Thomson; Kumaon, 

 5-7000 ft., Edgeworfh. 



Pseudobulbs -f in., tufted on a short rootstock, broadly ovoid ; stem stout, erect, 

 1-3 in. Leaves \-S\v\. ; petiole broad. Scape stout with the raceme 2-6 in. ; bracts 

 Jj-i in., base broad ; pedicels slender, ^ \ in. ; lip ^\ in. broad, base contracted, 

 cordate, calli 0. Differs conspicuously from L. olivacea in the small bracts. 

 Ridley has referred this to Griffith's rupestris, and gives Assam and the Khasia 

 Mts. as localities. It cannot, however, be Griffith's rupestris (which has a solitary 

 cordate leaf and lanceolate bracts), nor is it a Khasian plant. It is certainly 

 Jieichenbach's rostrata, under which that author refers to the specimen in Liudley's 

 herbarium fastened on a sheet with L. olivacea. 



10. L. Cathcartii, HooJc.f. Ic. PL t. 1808 ; leaves 2 opposite petioled 

 oblong ovate or subcordate, bracts minute broad, sepals lanceolate acuminate 

 3-nerved, lip obcordate or rounded obovate flat entire or obscurely crenulate, 

 calli 2 basal elongate, column long and very slender curved truncate with 

 very obscure rounded wings. L. rupestris in part, Ridley in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xxii. 145 (not of Griffith}. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt, 8-10000 ft, J. D. H., Clarice. 



Habit of L. rostrata, but with a narrower lip and very different column. A figure 

 of apparently this species is amongst the Cathcart drawings in. Herb. Kew with a 

 straw-coloured lip ; in my specimens the lip was pale purple. 



11. Zi. olivacea, Lindl in Wall. Cat. 1942 ; Gen. Sr Sp. Orchid. 27 ; 

 leaves 2 opposite sessile lanceolate acuminate plicate, bracts linear-lanceo- 

 late deflexed, sepals linear-oblong obtuse 5-nerved, lip flat orbicular sub- 

 crenulate, calli 2-tubercled, column rather stout slightly curved, wings very 

 narrow. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 263. 



NFPAL, WalllcJi. 



Pseudobulb small, pyriform ; stem 1 in., sheathed. Leaves 2|-3 in., spreading, 

 5-nerved. Scape 3-5 in., ttout; pedicels about^f- in. ; lip % in. diam., suddenly con- 

 tracted into a very short narrow neck, veined. I have seen only Wallich's three 

 specimens. 



12. Zi. campy lostalix, Seichb. f. in Linncea xli. 43; pseudobulb 

 tunicate, leaves 2 cuneate oblong obtusely acute, scape angular, bracts 

 most minute triangular, flowers as large as L. Loeselii, sepals linear-lan- 

 ceolate, lip embracing the base of the column obtusely 5-angled behind 

 retuse in front, callus 0, column curved broader near the fovea. Ridley in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 273. 



locality unknown. 

 Evidently near L. Cathcartti, which, however, has an obcordate lip. 



