Liparis.] CXLVIII. OECHIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 705 



exceeding the leaves few-fld., bracts lanceolate, pedicels long, sepals sub- 

 falcate lanceolate subacute, margins revolute, lip recurved cuneate truncate 

 apiculate, base auricled, calli 2 minute, column slender curved, wings 

 obscure. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 289 ; Griffith JSotul. iii. 



277. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., common. UPPER BUKMA, Griffith. TENASSEEIM, 

 at Moulmeiu, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs densely tufted, very small, depressed-globose. Leaves -^ in. broad. 

 Scape 2-4 in. ; bracts in., green j pedicels - in. ; flowers in. 



*** Lip minute mucli shorter than the sepals quadrate. Sepals straight 

 or lateral subt'alcate, margins revolute. A peculiar group of small 

 species. 



53. Xi. resupinata, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 290 ; leaves 

 3-4 1-3 in. linear-lanceolate acuminate, scape much longer than the leaves 

 slender, bracts lanceolate green longer than the pedicels, flowers in., 

 sepals straight broadly oblong obtuse 1-nerved, margins recurved, lip 

 broadly ovate-oblong with rounded basal lobes 2-tubercled, tip broad 

 rounded, column broadly winged to the base, wings with a capillary 

 tail. Hook.f. Ic. Plant, t. 1888. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-6000 ft., and the KHASIA MTS., common, alt. 4500- 

 6500ft. ? .NILGHIRI MTS., Wight. 



Pseudobulbs tufted, -1 in., narrow. Leaves alternate, sessile, submembranous, 

 rather distaut, 7-uervetl. Scape bracteate, with the raceme 5-7 in., many-fid. ; 

 lower bracts -5 in. ; pedicels \ in. ; flowers yellow. The capillary tail of each wing 

 of the column is peculiar to this and the following species. Ridley gives Nilghiri 

 Mts. Wight as a habitat, but there are no specimens in Wight's Heroarium. 



54. Zi. Ridleyi, HooJc. f. Ic. Plant, t. 1887; leaves 3-4 3-5 in. linear, 

 lanceolate acuminate, scape much longer than the leaves slender bracteate, 

 bracts lanceolate green shorter than the pedicels, flowers f in., sepals 

 straight obtuse 1-nerved, margins recurved, dorsal lanceolate, lateral 

 oblong-lanceolate, lip ovate-oblong with rounded basal lobes 2-tubercled, 

 tip rounded, column broadly winged to the base, wings with a capillary 

 tad. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6000 ft., common. 



Habit, &c., of L. resupinata, under which Ridley has placed it, but a larger plant, 

 with flowers more than twice as large, and much narrower sepals. 



55. L. delicatula, Hook.f. Ic. Plant, t. 1889; leaves 2 1-1 in. 

 petioled elliptic-lanceolate membranous, scape much longer than the 

 leaves filiform, bracts ovate much shorter than the pedicels, flowers % in., 

 sepals straight broadly oblong obtuse 1-nerved, margins revolute, lip 

 straight orbicular-oblong with small rounded basal lobes and 2 tubercles, 

 tip broad rounded abruptly caudate, column broadly winged. L. decurrens, 

 in part, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 291 (the Kliasian plant only). 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., Lobb, J. D. H. % T. T. MISHMI HILLS, in 

 Upper Assam, Griffith. 



Pseudobulbs tuited, > ovoid or oblong. Leaves -*- | in. broad, pale, obscurely 

 3-nerved, acute or apiculate. Scape 3-5 in., very slender, bracteate; bracts 1 in., 

 acute, membranous; flowers white. Column with uncinate wings near the top, and 

 narrow lateral wings (not confluent with the terminal) descending to the base. 

 Placed under the Javanese L. decurrens by Reichb. f. and Ridley, but differs from 



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