LIPARIS. 91 
Leaf solitary from near the apex of the pseudo-bulb, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, acute, 
narrowed to the sessile or shortly petiolate base, 5 to 10 in. long and 1 to 1:8 in. 
broad. Inflorescence somewhat longer than the leaf, narrowly winged; the peduncle 
ebracteate, slightly longer than the. lax few-flowered raceme; floral bract linear-lanceolate, 
much shorter than the filiform stalked ovary. lowers ‘6 in. long, pale-brown, their 
ovaries usually longer. Sepals linear-lanceolate, the dorsal sub-reflexed, the lateral pair 
lying parallel below and projecting beyond the lip. Petals linear, blunt, much decurved, 
their edges, like those of the sepals, revolute. Zip cuneately oblong, deflexed from below 
the middle, its base bi-auriculate and with two erect tooth-like calli, the sides entire; 
the apex broad, truncate, erose, mucronate. Column curved, its base thickened, the upper 
third with two long sub-pendulous elongated hook-like triangular wings. Anther with a 
large emarginate lip. Pollinia oblong. Griff Itin. Notes, 98; Ic. Pl. Asiat, t. 287; 
Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXII, 285; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 700. 2. lancifolia, 
Hook. fil. Ie. Plantar.. t. 1855; Fl. Br. Ind. V., 700. 
Sikkim-Himalaya, below Sureil, at 4,800 feet; Pantling Nos. 33 and 343, Bhotan, 
near the foot of the hills; Griffith. Khasia Hills, elevation 4,000 to 6,000 feet, In 
Sikkim this flowers in August. 
The prevailing colour in the parts of the flower of this is pale brown, but the 
column is whitish and the anther green, while the two tooth-like calli at the base of the 
lip are also green, 
PrarE 40.— Liparis bootanensis, Griff. А plant, of natural візе. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 lip showing 
. the basal auricles and calli, 3 column, 4 anther, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
' 18, Liparts Manni, Reichb. fil. in Flora, 1872, 275. 
Epiphytal. Pseudo-bulbs crowded, narrowly ovoid, compressed, “75 in. long, often 
envelopéd in ovate-lanceolate acute scarious sheaths “2 to 1:25 in. long. Leaf thickly 
membranous, solitary, linear-oblong, acute, slightly narrowed to the convolute sessile base; 
length 4*5 to 7 in., breadth *4 to ‘5 in. Inflorescence slightly longer than the leaf; the 
peduncle twice as long as the raceme, slender, slightly flattened, narrowly 2-winged; the 
raceme about 3 in. long, decurved, many- and rather densely-flowered. Flowers yellowish, 
175 in. long; floral bract lanceolate, equalling or exceeding the stalked ovary. Sepals 
subequal, oblong, reflexed, their margins recurved, the dorsal sub-acute, the lateral pair 
blunt. Petals linear, blunt, reflexed, shorter than the sepals. Zip 3-lobed, without calli, 
its lower half parallel to the column, its apical half decurved at right angles to the 
lower; lateral lobes broad, erect, falcate, pointing forwards, sub-acute; apical lobe 
deflexed, rhomboid, acute, the edges erose. Column terete, slender, without wings, 
the base dilated. Lip of anther acute. Pollinia linear-clavate, Ridley in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. XXII, 286; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 701. 
At the base of the range east of the Jaldaka river, at an elevation of 800 feet; 
in flower during December; Pantling No. 466. | 
The flowers of this are of а uniform greenish colour. It is closely allied to Z. 
tenuifolia, Hook. fil. (Ic. Plantar., t. 2013), differing from that only in having a narrowly 
winged instead of a terete peduncle, and in the apical lobe of the lip having entire edges 
and being more acute. Of eleven plants seen in flower by Mr. Pantling, the racemes 
of all began to expand in the centre, and expansion proceeded towards the base and | 
apex simultaneously. 
