26 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
7-nerved; length 6 or 7 in., breadth 2:25 to 2:5 in. Inflorescence longer than the leaves, 
erect, striate; the peduncle with a few lanceolate reflexed bracts; raceme laxly-flowered ; 
floral bract half as long as the pedicelled ovary, reflexed. Flowers +35 in. long, yellow. 
Sepals narrowly oblong, the dorsal one. acute, the lateral pair obtuse. Petals narrowly 
oblong; obtuse, and, like the sepals, reflexed and with recurved margins, Zip flat, 
orbicular-reniform, contracted at its junction with the column, the margins near 
the base quite entire, at the sides and apex minutely erose; the apex very broad, 
slightly emarginate and mucronate; the upper surface with a narrowly oblong mesial 
glistening and nectar-exuding patch extending from the base to the middle; calli two 
just under the column. Column slightly curved, with narrow rounded wings near the 
apex; the base somewhat swollen. Hook, fil. Ic. Plantar. t. 2008. 
Sikkim-Himalaya; at Goke, elevation 2,000 feet; Pantling No. 336; flowering in 
August. At Darjeeling; Griffith’s collectors. 
Рглте 31.—Liparis deflexa, Lindl. A plant, of natural sis, Fig. 1 a flower seen from the front, 
2 flower, back view, 3 column, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
5. ІшрАВІЗ NEPALENSIS, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 1945. 
Terrestrial. Rhizome elongate, stout, bearing rather distant ovate-acuminate com- 
pressed: striate green pseudo-bulbs about 2 in. long; the stem terminating the rhizome, 
stout, short.. Leaves two, shining, broadly ovate to sub-orbicular, abruptly acute or 
shortly acuminate, the bases rounded or cordate, suddenly contracted into the long 
stout sheath-like petiole, the upper one amplexicaul and sometimes (fide Hooker) 
sessile, midrib distinct; lateral nerves about five pairs, curved, ascending. Inflorescence 
4 to 10 in. long; the peduncle stout, ebracteate; raceme sparsely flowered; floral bract 
about “2 in. long, equalling the stalked filiform ovary. Flowers “5 in. long. Sepals 
lanceolate-acuminate, the edges revolute, the dorsal one reflexed, the lateral pair lying 
parallel under the lip. Petals linear, spreading. Jip flat, elliptic, slightly cordate at the 
base, narrowed to the apex, with a stout smooth central ridge ending in a mucronate 
point and with numerous spreading branching purple veins; the edges entire, not 
undulate; the base with two calli separated by a small depression. Column arched, its 
base thickened, grooved, and with two purple spots just above its junction with the 
lip; wing short, rectangular; rostella two, pollinia obovoid. Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub 
t. 882; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 28; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc, XXII, 278; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 693. Malaxis cordifolia, Smith in Rees’ Cyclop. Acianthus 
petiolatus, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep., 29. | : : 
Sikkim-Himalaya; common at elevations of from 3,500 to 5,000 feet; Pantling 
No. 217. Nepal; Wallich. Khasia Hills; Griffith and others; in flower in May. 
The lip and petals of this species are purple, the other parts of the flower being 
green, 
Prate 32.—Liparis Nepalensis, Lindl. А plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 flower, in profile, 2 lip, 
3 column, 4 pollinia : ай enlarged. 
6. Lrparis GLossULa, Reichb. fil. in Linnea, XLI, 43. 
Terrestrial. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, tufted, 1°5 to 2 in. long. Leaf solitary, oblong, 
sub-acute, suddenly contracted into a sheath at the base, sometimes petiolate, 2 to 
