96 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Сеуі., 295; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 704. Г. elliptica, Wight Іс. 1735. Г. Wightii, 
Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 218. Z. Hookeri, Ridley l. с. 288. Malaxis viridiflora, 
Blume Bijdr. 392, t. 54. 
Sikkim-Himalaya, in tropical valleys not ascending over 3,000 feet; Pantling 
No. 102; in flower in November. Also in Upper Assam and Khasia Hills, in 
Southern India, in the Nilgiri Hills and in Ceylon. Also in Java. 
The pseudo-bulbs of this species are, in specimens from the south of India, some- 
what four-angled but compressed; in other specimens they are, when fresh, almost 
cubical. The inflorescence is at first erect; and, in this attitude, even fruiting racemes 
are shown in Wight’s figure (Ic. 1735). But they really become pendulous at an early 
stage. 
Рглте 47.—Liparis viridiflora, Lindl. А plant, of natural гіш. Fig. 1 flower, front view, 
2 floral bract, pedicelled ovary, and flower, side view, 3 lip, upper surface, 4 column with anther 
and apex of ovary, 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia, seen from the front, 7 the same, from the side; all 
enlarged. 
22. Liparis ASSAMICA, mew species, 
Epiphytal. Pseudo-bulbs and leaves as in ZL. resupina'a. Racemes three times ав 
long as the leaves, much deflexed. Flowers sparse, *d in. long; floral bract -usually 
shorter than the ovary. Sepals unequal, the dorsal erect, narrowly oblong, tapering to 
the sub-acute apex; the lateral pair larger, blunt, lying close together under the lip. 
Petals linear, obtuse, spreading, shorter than the sepals. zp flat, about as long as the 
petals, broadly-oblong, with short sagittate auricles at the base; the apex broad, 
emarginate, with a short apiculus in the sinus; the upper surface with an elliptic 
nectary and two calli at the base. Column broad at the base, tapering upwards, with 
two shallow broad blunt wings about the middle, not hooked; and with two 
stout convexities on the posterior surface. Anther obtuse.  Pollinis as in L. resupinata. 
Г. resupinata, Ridl. var. Assamica, King and Pantling MSS. 
Khasia Hills and Assam; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 5082), Wallich, G. Mann; in 
flower during November. 
This variety has not as yet been found in Sikkim, and we include it here owing 
to its relationship to Г. resupinata, Ridley, and to its var. Ridleyi. This plant has 
Such a different column and lip from these that we have given it specific rank. 
On the other hand we have ventured to reduce L. Ridley as a variety of Г. resupinata, 
because it differs only in size from the latter, and not at all in form. JZ. Assamica 
has the pseudo-bulbs and leaves of typical L. resupinata, and the larger flowers and 
much deflexed racemes of its variety Ridleyi. But it differs from both in its flat 
emarginate apiculate lip, and in having a column with no hooked wings, but with two | 
convexities on the back. 
PrarE 50.—Liparis Assamica, King and Pantling. А tuft of plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 а 
flower, front view, 2 side view of floral bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, 3 column, showing 
its wings and the anther in situ, 4 empty anther, 5 po.\nia; ай enlarged. 
29. Liparis RESUPINATA, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXII, 290. 
Epiphytal. Pseudo-bulbs tufted, ovoid-cylindric, sheathed, 5 to 1°5 ing long. Leaves 
two to four, membranous, alternate, linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, not narrowed to 
