Liparis."] CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 707 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



L. ALATA, A. Sick, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 17; pseudobulbs ovoid, sheaths 

 lax membranous acute, leaves usually 2 subpetioled sheathing membranous ovate 

 acute entire, base rounded, spike elongate few-fld., rachis compressed winged, lip sub- 

 cordate convex quite entire, base erect embracing the column. Nilgbiri Hills, moist 

 woods at the Waterfall, Perrottet. This may be either a Liparis or Hicrostylis. 



L. BIDENTATA, Griff. Notul. iii. 277 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 286, f. 2, from the Naga 

 Hills, is not a Liparis. 



L. CUMINGII, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 292, founded on Cuming's 

 No. 2141, is erroneously described as a Malaccau plant. Cuming collected it in the 

 Island of Bopol, one of the Philippians. It is hardly different from L. compressa. 



L. DECURSIVA, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1884, ii. 38 ; pseudobulb tumid 

 Bubpyriform very obtusely angled on both sides, leaves 2 cuneate-oblong chartaceous, 

 scape narrowly winged, bracts lanceolate acuminate keeled the lower exceeding the 

 pedicelled ovaries, sepals triangular-ligulate, lip with a short channelled claw, blade 

 large abruptly transversely hastate emarginate with a tooth in front serrulate, claw 

 with a notched tubercle, column incurved dilated towards the base angled on both 

 sides next the pit. E. Indies (Hort. Glasnevin). Description from Reichen- 

 bachf. I. c. 



L. GROSSA, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1883, i. 110; pseudobulbs short stout 

 pyriform 2-leaved, leaves broadly ligulate obtuse, tip unequal, raceme many-fld., 

 rachis depressed, base with an acute compressed foliaceous sheath, and many scarious 

 sheaths above, flowers yellow-brown, bracts linear-cuspidate hardly equalling the 

 pedicelled ovary, sepals ligulate acute, lip ligulate, base minutely obtusely auricled 

 abruptly constricted iu the middle, apex divergently 2-lobed, side lobes quadrate 

 denticulate on the outer margin, basal calli obscure. Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xxii. 288. Burma, H. Low. Allied to L. pachypus, but much larger, with a very 

 different lip. Description from Reichb. f. I. c. I have seen no specimens. 



L. LIVJDA, Royle 111. 64, name only, from Nepal. In the Kew collection of 

 Indian drawings there is one named by Lindley " L. livida," but which is so incor- 

 rectly drawn (the petals being represented as lateral sepals) that no confidence can 

 be placed in it. It may be a form of L. litulerculata. In Lindley's Herbarium 

 there is a copy of this di awing, and on the same sheets is fastened a specimen of what 

 is clearly L. Walkerice, ticketed " Khasia, Lobb," but which is probably from the 

 Nilghiri Hills, where Lobb also collected. 



L. OBCORDATA, Vahl. ex King Cat. of N. W. Indian plants in Atkinson's Notes 

 on the Economic Products of N.W. India, Part V. 318. This is undescribed. 



L. ODONTOSTOMA, Reichb. f. in Linnea xli. 97 ; Ridley I. c. 263 ; 2 ft. high, 

 pseudobulb subterete ?, leaves about 4 membranous cuneate-oblong acute, raceme 

 many-fld., dorsal sepal lanceolate 3-nerved, lateral oblong-ligulate 4-nerved curved, 

 claw of lip with the base obtusely angled, blade as long as the claw subquadrate 

 emargiuate and apiculate, calli 2 conical, column angled at the base and apex. 

 Sikkim, alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H.I suspect this to be a form of L. Utuberculata. 

 The bracts are not described, and the 4-nerved lateral sepals are anomalous. 



L. STACHTURUS, Reiclib. f. in Flora 1872, 274; Ridley I. c. 295 ; pseudobulbs 

 ligulate (2-edged?) 2-leaved, leaves cuneately oblong-ligulate acuminate, scape dense- 

 fld., bracts setaceous about equalling the pedicelled ovaries, sepals ligulate obtuse, lip 

 trifid, side lobes semicordate at the base obtuse-angled in front, midlobe triangular, 

 column dilated at the apex, anther acute. Assam, Mann. Placed in the section 

 Coriifolice and near L. longipes by Ridley, who does not say that he has seen the 

 plant. I have not. 



L. STRICKLANDIANA, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1880, i. 232; Ridley I. c. 

 295; pseudobulbs conico-ovoid 2-(l-3)-leaved, leaves linear-ligulate acute, scape 

 ensiform winged, raceme rather dense-fld., bracts triangular shorter than the pedi- 

 celled ovaries, sepals ligulate, petals linear retuse, lip 3-lobed from a cuneate 

 transversely dilated base, lateral lobes rounded, inidlobe short triangular, lobes all 



