7<H) CXLVIH. ORCHIDEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Liparii*. 



L. longipes, with which it was mixed in Herb. Lindl., whilst iu Herb. Wall, only 

 fragments of the former are retained. The Perak specimens have obscure sicU - 

 lobes. 



33. Ii. bootanensis, Griff. Notul. iii. 278 ; Itin. Notes, 98 ; Ic. PI. 



Asiat. t. 287 ; leaf solitary sessile 5-10 in. linear- or ob-lancejlate acu- 

 minate, scape very slender flexuous margined lax-fld., bracts subulate shorter 

 than the filiform pedicels, flowers rather large, sepals straight, sides revo- 

 lute, lip recurved cnneately oblong, tip rather dilated truncate erose, calli 

 2 minute, column slender, wings hooked. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 

 285, in part. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA (Ic. in Herb. Ketv) ; BHOTAN, at the foot of the hills, Griffith. 

 KHASIA Mxs., nit. 4-6000 fc. 



Pseudobulb oblong, formed after flowering. Leaf |-1 in. broad, narrowed to the 

 base but not petioled, many-nerved. Scape long; bracts %-\ iu. ; pedicels J | in. ; 

 flowers - in. broad, ochreous or reddish. Ridley describes the leaves as sometimes 

 in pairs. 



34. Zi. lancifolia, HooTc.f. Ic. PI. t. 1855; pseudobulbs narrow, leaf 

 linear-lanceolate acuminate narrowed into a slender petiole, scape slender 

 naked, bracts lanceolate shorter than the slender pedicels, sepals stra'ght, 

 margins revolute, lip recurved cuneately obovate, tip rounded, calli obscure, 

 column slender, wing hooked. L. bootanensis, in part, Ridley I. c. 



KHASIA MTS. ; at Churra and Pom rang, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. fr T. T. 

 (Liparif, No. 18) ; on Shillong, alt. 6000 ft., Clarke, Mann. 



Pseudobulbs 1-1 U) -> many on a creeping stock ; sheaths long, acuminate. Leaves 

 5-8 in., including the 1-2 in. petiole, thin, many-nerved. Scape straight or curved, 

 hardly margined; flowers dirty yellow, like those of bootanensis. Capsule % in., 

 narrowly pyriform on a decurved pedicel. Differs from bootanensis in the lung 

 narrow pseudobulbs and long petioled leaves, but may prove a form of that species. 



35. Zi. pachypus, Parish and Reichb.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 155 ; 

 pseudobulb large fleshy ovoid, leaf 1|-2| in. sessile oblanceolate acu- 

 minate, scape short bracteate, bracts lanceolate shorter than the pedicels, 

 sepals narrow obtuse straight, margins recurved, lip recurved cuneate, tip 

 broad truncate retuse creaulate, nerves 5 outer branching, calli obscure, 

 column slender, wings obscure. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 288. 



TENASSEKIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs tutted, ovoid, 1 in. or more long and as broad. Leaf\ in. d'am., 

 sefsile, thin, midrib slender, nerves obscure. Scape few-flei. ; bracts \ in. and less; 

 flowers about 3- in. across, yellow ? 



36. Xi. Griffith!!, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 285 (in part)-, leaf 

 linear-lanceolate, scape stout and rachis broadly 2-winged, bracts very 

 slender longer than the lower short stout pedicels, flowers small, sepals 

 straight obtuse, sides revolute, lip recurved deltoidly obcordate with a 

 shallow crenulate sinus, calli minute, nerves 5, literal branched, column 

 slender curved, wings 0. Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 307, f. 1. 



BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Pseudobulb on the single flowering specimen. Leaf 12 in., and base of short 

 ste.n clothed with equitant acute sheaths. Scape 8 in., nearly 4 in. broad ; bracts 

 in., green.- -Kidley's description includes fruiting specimens of L. plantaginea. 



:',7. Zi. Prainii, Hook. f. fc. PL t. 1857 A; dwarf, pseudobulb small. 



N'iil' linear-oblong coriaceous keeled, scap** stout strict many-Hd., bracts 



