184 ORCHIDACE.E. [ MICROSTYLIS. 



2. MICROSTYLIS, Nutt. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 686. 



Terrestrial or epiphytic, rarely saprophytes, often pseudo- 

 bulbous. Leaves one or more, membranous, plicate, continuous- 

 with their sheaths. Flowers small, in terminal racemes, resupinate. 

 Sepals spreading or recurved, subequal. Petals narrower than* 

 the sepals and about as long. Lip adnate to base of column, usually 

 flat, with or without basal lobes ; apex emarginate or 2-3-lobed. 

 Column usually very short with two short spreading arms. Anther 

 subterminal, or accumbent, 2-celled ; pollinia 4, ovoid or obovoid, 

 waxy. Species about 70, in temperate and tropical Asia and 

 America. 



M. Macklnnoni Duthie in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixxi, pt. 2, 37 ; 

 Ann., E. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, pt. 2, 88, t. 95. 



Terrestrial, whole plant up to 7 in. high. Stem short, swollen below,, 

 rising from the base of the previous year's pseudo-bulb. Leaves two 

 or three, horizontal, unequal, the large.- 1 2J in. long by 1 in. broad * 

 ovate, obtuse, cordate and amplexicaul at the bate, fleshy; upper 

 surface dark brownish-green ; the lower surface purplish ; nerves 3-7, 

 reddish-purple, prominent beneath, the interspaces bullate. Scape 

 about 3 in. long, sharply 4-angular. Receme about as long as the 

 scape ; bracts subulate, longer than the ovary, reflexed, persistent. 

 Flowers sessile, about J in. long, dull-yellowish and reddish-purple. 

 Dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, subacute ; lateral shorter, subfalcate, 

 edges of all reflexed. Petals linear, shorter than the sepals, reflexed. 

 Lip with a prominent transverse rim dividing its basal and apical 

 portions ; basal lobes falcately ovate-lanceolate, often continuous or 

 overlapping at the tips ; apical portion deeply bifid and protruded, 

 crimson-purple. Column with fleshy rounded arms. Anthers with a 

 truncate or emarginate lip. Ovary clavate, not twisted. 



Dehra Dun, on Kalanga hill, at 2- 3,000 ft. (P. W. Mackinnon). Flowers 

 July and Aug. DISTKIB. : Outer ranges of Garhwal Himalaya, up to 

 6,000 ft., easily distinguished from M. Wallichii by its leaf -coloration f 

 also the flowers are smaller and the lip is very differently shaped. 



3. LIPARIS, Rich. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 691. 



Terrestrial or epiphytic herbs, with or without pseudobulbs* 

 Leaves one or more, membranous or coriaceous, continuous with 

 the p.heath or thickened and jointed at the base. Flowers small,. 



