696 CXLVIII. oncHiDEjE. (J. I). Hooker.) [Lipuris. 



f Bracts very small, short. (See also L. paradoxa & brachyglottis.) 



18. Zi. bituberculata, Lindl. in Hot. Reg. sub. t. 882 ; stem usually 

 tall, leaves 2 or more subopposite sessile or petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute, bracts minute broad, sepals linear-oblong obtuse, lip decurved cu- 

 neately obovate retuse purple 2-tubercled, column curved, wings narrow 

 rounded. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 263. Empusa paradoxa, Wall. 

 Cat. 1937/2. Cymbidium ? bituberculatum, HooTc. Exot. Fl. 1. 116. Sturmia 

 bituberculata, Reichb.f. in Bonplandia, ii. 22. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Slink-worth ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 

 5-7000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. 



Stems 2-4 in., tufted, hardly pseudobulbous. Leaves 3-5 in., very variable, nerves 

 rather strong. Scape stout, few- or mairy-fld. ; bracts ^-yV in., ovate, acute; pedi- 

 cels |-J in. Lateral sepals often revolute or recurved. Zip shorter than the sepals, 

 margins quite entire. Ridley describes the bracts as lanceolate ; they are very small, 

 by which character the species is best distinguished from all its allies but the two 

 following. 



Var. ? Jchasiana, leaves broader more ovate or orbicular-ovate sessile or shortly 

 petioled, lip cuneately obcordate, column much shorter and broader, cap- 

 sule i-f in. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, Ac.- -Perhaps a different 

 species. 



19. Xi. macrocarpa, Hvolc.f.-, tall, robust, leaves 4-6 large broadly 

 petioled obliquely elliptic-ovate or -oblong acuminate nerves 7 strong, bracts 

 minute, capsules l^-lf in. elliptic-oblong. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA and the KHASIA MTS., in tropical forests, J. D. H. 



Resembles a very large state of L. bituberculata, but is, I have no doubt, a very 

 distinct species ; the stem is sometimes as thick as the little finger, more or less naked 

 and fleshy, the leaves very unequal at the base, with petioles 1-3 in., and the fruiting 

 scape is 12-18 in. high. 



20. Zi. acuminata, Hook.f. ; leaves 5-6 sessile erect broadly sheath- 

 ing lanceolate finely acuminate, bracts minute ovate, flowers large, sepals 

 spreading, lateral falcately oblong-lanceolate acute 5-nerved, dorsal linear, 

 lip slightly recurved transversely oblong subcrenulate contracted into a 

 short 2-tubercled neck, column slender incurved truncate, wings very 

 small. 



KHASIA MTS., Griffith. 



Stem 3-5 in., many-sheathed to the base which is not swollen. Leave* very 

 membranous, slightly recurved ; nerves very slender. Scape 4-6 in. ; bracts -^ in., 

 ovate; pedicels J-f in.; buds in., falcate; lip with erect sides, slightly re- 

 curved. 



21. Xi. barbata, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 27 ; small, leaves 2 oppo- 

 site subsessile elliptic subacute, bracts minute broad, flower small pale, 

 sepals obtuse, lateral oblong 3-nerved, dorsal rather longer and narrower 

 1-nerved, lip oblong, base 2-auricled 2-tubercled, tip truncate slightly 

 dilated erose and subfimbriate, column incurved, wings short rounded 

 toothed. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 276. 



CEYLON, Macrae. 



Htem It in., not pseudobulbous. Leaves 2 by H 5n- nerves very slender. Scape 

 and raceme 2 in., pedicels J in. ; flower about as much across, apparently green. 

 Described from a solitary specimen in Herb. Lindl. 1 find in two flowers examined 

 no trace of the hairs on the lip described by Lindlcy and Ridley. 



