708 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. (J. I). Hooker.) [Lipari*. 



minutely denticulate in front, calli minute, column curved hardly dilated in front. 

 Assam ? (Hort. Strickland). Unknown. 



L. TKISTIS, Loddigts Orchid, p. 4, cult, by Lodd ; ges, from Ceylon ; name only. 

 LIPAEIS, "Ceylon, Loddigcs" /. f., name only. Kidley has referred to this 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 297) as L. '' zeylanica," but Lcddiges has given it no 

 specific name. 



4. PLATYCLINIS, Bentli. 



Tufted epiphytes, pseudobulbs narrow or 0. Leaves solitary, petioled. 

 Flowers small, in a terminal raceme ; bracts very rigid, straight, convolute. 

 Sepals and petals spreading. Lip sessile or shortly clawed, narrow or 

 broad. Column erect, short/ or rather long, sides produced into 2 mem- 

 branous points, wings or arms, tip produced into an entire or cleft hood ; 

 anther incumbent, 2-celled ; pollinia 4, waxy, ovoid, superposed, cohering 

 in pairs in separate cells. Species about 20, Malayan. 



The rigid pale narrow convolute grooved glumaceous bracts are very characteristic 

 of this genus. 



1. P. gracilis, Hook. f. ; leaves linear-lanceolate obtuse, scape very 

 slender, bracts acute half as long as the very shortly pedicolled flowers, 

 sepals ^ in. long broadly lanceolate finely acuminate 3-nerved, petals as 

 long linear-oblong, lateral lobes of lip rounded crenulate, tips lanceolate 

 spreading, midlobe cuneate, tip rounded, disk with an elevated green coria- 

 ceous 3-furcate ridge, column slender with gladiats arms. 



PEBAK; alt. 4-5000 ft., King's Collector; 



Pseudobulbs 1 in., subcvylindric. Leaf 4-6 by 1 in., petiole 1 in. Scape naked 

 and raceme 12 in. ; bracts % in.; flowers yellowish-white. Lateral nerves of sepals 

 and petals very faint. 



2. P. HLingrii? Hook. f. ; leaves linear-lanceolate, raceme long-pe- 

 duncled few-fld., bracts almost as long as the flowers,.sepals ^ in. ovate- 

 lanceolate finely acuminate, lateral 5-nerved, lip with rounded creuulate 

 side lobes, midlobe ovate acute veined, disk with 2 small curved calli, 

 column very short, hood with a very thick dorsal ridge. 



PEEAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. DISTEIB. ? Borneo (Beccari, No. 2095). 



Pseudobulb -i-l in., narrowly ovoid. Leave* 3-7 in., subacute or acuminate, 

 rather thin; petiole 1 in. Scape and raceme about equalling the leaves; bracts 

 ^ in., acute; flowers % in. across, pale yellow, lip light green. The Boruean plant 

 differs in having a longer column which has not a dorsal ridge, and its wings are 

 longer. The column of P. Kingii is so minute and short that I had great difficulty 

 in finding the wings. 



5. TIPUX.ARXA, Nult. 



Terrestrial herbs; pseudobulb small. Leaf solitary, ovate, petioled. 

 Scape long ; flowers loosely racemose. Sepals spreading and petals narrow, 

 subequal. Lip much smaller than the sepals, sessile, suberect, lateral lobes 

 rounded, midlobe flat ; spur long, slender. Column slender erect, anther 

 2-celled with a short filiform stipes ending in a gland attached to the 

 rostellum (as in Vandece) ; pollinia 4, distinct. DISTEIB. The following and 

 a N. American species. 



T. Joseph!, Reichl.f. mss. ; sepals 3-nerved, petals 1-nerved, lip with 

 large side lobes, midlobe ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute. Lindl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. i. 174. 



