698 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. (J. I). Hookti.) [Lipctns. 



angular, 'bracts spreading ovate not reflexed after flowering lanceolate, 

 flowers coriaceous, sepals short obtuse 5-nerved, lateral falcately oblong 

 spreading and recurved, dorsal longer narrower, lip recurved cunea+ely 

 obovate or obcordate, base 2-tubercled, column incurved, wings narrow. 

 Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 261. L. odorata, Lindl. Gen. 8f Sp. 

 Orchid. 26 ; Thwaites JEnum. 295. Empusa paradoxa, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 

 1937 A in part-, Sot. Reg. sub. t. 825; Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 17; Miguel 

 Pro/us. Fl. Jap. 135 ; Thwaites JSnum. 426. Empusaria sp., Reichb. f. 

 Conspect. 69. Malaxis lancifolia, Smith in Rees Cyclop. M. odorata, 

 Willd.Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 28. 



TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, alt. 6000 ft., Blinktvorth ; 

 Nepal, Wallich. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. BENGAL, at My- 

 men~ingh, Clarke. The CONCAN and MYSORE, Stocks, Law, &c. CEYLON; alt. 

 2-5000 ft., Th^vaites. DISTEIB. Java, Siam, China, Japan. 



Very variable in habit, 6-18 in. high ; stem tufted, base sometimes pseudo- 

 bulbous. Leaves 2-8 in., rarely elliptic-lanceolate and narrowed into a broad petiole, 

 membranous or subcoriaceous. Scape 4-10 in., naked or nearly so, rigid ; bracts 

 variable in length, 1 in. and longer, not reflexed; pedicels usually short and stout; 

 flowers about ^ in. across, yellow-brown; ribs of ovary wrinkled. Lip variable 

 in breadth, sides erect. Capsules clavate. I follow Ridley in accepting the name 

 of paradoxa for this plant, though, as he points out, L odorata is the oldest. The 

 latter name is, as Thwaites states, inapplicable. 1 have seen uo Ceylon specimens. 



VAE. Parishii; leaves narrowed at the base or broadly petioled flat more 

 membranous, scape taller and flowers longer. Teuasserim, Lobb, Parish. 



27. Zr. Dalzellii, Eook.f. ; tall, stem as thick as the thumb, leaves 

 2-3 sessile elliptic-ovate acute, scape stout, bracts lanceolate not denexed 

 spreading, flowers \ in. across, sepals 5-nerved obtuse sides recurved, lateral 

 falcately oblong, dorsal longer linear-oblong, lip broadly obcordate fleshy 

 dark purple, base 2-tubercled, column stout incurved, wings rounded. 



SOUTH CONCAN, Dalzell. 



I have seen only one specimen of this renwkably gigantic species, of which the 

 sheathed stern 4 in. long, and in. diam., terminates below in a small pseudobulb. 

 Leaves 4r-6 by 2^-3 in. Scape stout; bracts 5 in. long, not deflexed ; jedicels i in., 

 stout ; flowers twice as large as those of L. paradoxa. 



28. Xi. Walkeriae, Graham in Sot. Mag. t. 3770 ; stem stout, leaves 

 2-3 petioled ovate or orbicular acute, racemes many-fld., bracts lanceolate 

 spreading, sepals obtuse 5-nerved, lateral flat falcately oblong, dorsal 

 longer linear-oblong sides recurved, lip orbicular recurved crenulate, base 

 contracted 2-tubercled, column incurved, wings uncinate. Thwaites J?nu>n. 

 295; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 277. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from the Nilghiri Hills to Travancore, Wight, 

 &c. CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Stem 2-4. in., base pseudobulbous. Leaves 2-4 by 1-^-4 in., 7-nerved, base 

 sometimes very unequal; petiole 01^ in. Scape with raceme 3-6 in. ; bracts ^ in., 

 not deflexed ; pedicels rather large ; flowers about in., pale. Lip wrinkled and 

 rather fleshy. I have examined many flowers, but fit,d no lip to be at all oblong, but 

 always more or less rounded, as described by Graham ; but when the lip is figured 

 as oblong, it is because of the sides being incurved and foreshortened. It is very 

 difficult to flatten out the lips of species in which it is recurved. 



29. L. atropurpurea, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 28; stem stout, 

 leaves 3-4 petioled ovate or orbicular, base very oblique and unequal, bracts 

 lanceolate spreading, sepals very long linear obtuse, all with recurved sides, 



