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median nerves; the base with a small cavity bearing on its margins two minute 
calli under the column. Column rather stout, strongly curved about the middle, thickened 
at the base, the apex with two broad wings; pollinia obovoid; rostella two. Hook. fil. 
Fl. Br. Ind. V, 693; in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. Vol. V, pt. 1, 2 t. 3. 
Sikkim-Himalaya at Rungbee, Clarke; on Sinchal, alt. 6,500 feet, Gamble; above 
Sureil, alt, 6,000 feet, Pantling, No. 150; in flower in June. 
An exquisite little plant found gruwing on the moss-covered trunks of trees in 
cool damp forests. The flowers are of a dark-green, the lip having a broad margin 
of brownish-purple and many nerves of the same colour. 
PLATE 29.— Liparis Gamblei, Hook. fil. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, front view, 
2 flower, seen from the side, З column and apex of ovary, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
3. Liparis Сатнсавти, Hook. fil. Іс. Plantar, t. 1808. 
Terrestrial. Pseudo-buib narrowly ovoid, about 1:25 in. long. Stem from the base 
of the pseudo-bulb, decumbent below, erect above, 2 or 3 in. long, bearing 
several. sub-acute sheaths and at the apex two sub-opposite, broadly-ovate or elliptic- 
ovate sub-acute leaves, contracted into sheathing petioles at the more or less cordate 
bases; length of blade 155 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 2 in.; petioles 1 to 2°5 in. long. 
Inflorescence much longer than the leaves, winged; the peduncle striate, ebracteate ; raceme 
laxly-flowered ; floral brací minute, broad, erect. Flower from "8 to “9 in. lude green 
and purple. Sepals oblong, blunt, their edges much recurved, spreading, the lateral pair 
closely adpressed to the lower surface of the lip. Petals linear, curved and reflexed. 
Lip flat, obovate, with a clawed cordate base and a truncate erose apex cuspidate in the 
middle; the base with two obscure calli connected by a thickened line so as to form a 
nectary, with a groove proceeding from it and disappearing about half-way up the 
middle of the lip. Column long, slender, curved, the apex sub-truncate and with two 
short broad wings; the base slightly thickened and with two teeth. Anther sub- 
quadrate ; pollinia clavate-obovoid. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 694, . L. rupestris (in part) 
Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soe. XXII, 145 (not of Griffith). 
The flowers in this species are most beautifully and delicately oloni: the sepals, 
petals and upper part of the column with the anther are green ; the base of the column 
is purple, as із also the greater part of the lip, the latter having besides veins of a 
deeper shade of the same colour, while its anterior edge has a broad margin of yellow- 
ish green, | 
Sikkim; in the Lachen valley, at an elevation of 7,000 feet; Pantling No. 369; at 
elevations of 8,000 to 10,000 feet; Hooker, Clarke. 
of unusually large size. Fig. 1 a flower, 
Prate 90.—Lijaris Catheartii, Hook. fil. А plart, 
seen from the front, 2 flower, scen from behind, 3 column, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
4. LıIPARIS DEFLEXA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 697. 
Terrestrial. Stem cylindric, as thick as a goose-quill, about 2 or 2*5 in. sng, 
covered by two or three tight short sub-acute sheaths, springing from a cylindric root- 
bearing tuber which has beside it a more succulent rootless tuber, Leaves two from near 
the top of the stem, sub-opposite, and with short unequal petioles, elliptic, tapering from 
the middle to the acuminate apcx and to the sheathing base, membranous, plicate, 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Gard., Carcurra, Vor. VIII. 
