2 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
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acutis v. obtusis. Lindley in Wall. Cat. n. 1938 ef Gen. and Sp. Orchid. 20; Ridley in Journ, 
Linn. Soc. xxiv. 887; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. у. 686. Malaxis acuminata, Don Prodr. РИ, 
Nep. 29 (fid. obs. in Herb. Wallich), 
Нав.--ТЕМРЕВАТЕ and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 4— 7,000 ft. from Simla to Sikkim. 
Kaasa Hits, alt. 5—6,000 feet. ۶ Andaman Islands, Kurz. TRAVANCORE and the 
Anamallay Hills, Beddome (fid, Ridley), ^ DisrRIB.— Cambodia. | 
Rhizome creeping, fleshy. Stem 2—3 in., sheathed. Leaves 3—5 in. long, many-nerved, 
bright green above, strongly ribbed, and often discoloured wholly or on the nerves only 
beneath. Scape 3-8 in. high, slender. аселе 2-4 in. long, narrow; bracts ovate, acute, 
green; flowers $ in., nearly $ inch from the tip of the lip to that of the dorsal sepal, 
greenish, purplish or yellowish. Sepals oblong, dorsal 1-3-nerved, lateral 3-5-nerved. Petals 
J-nerved. Lip very variable as to the comparative and absolute length and breadth of the 
lamina and auricles, 
The plate represents a very small-flowered state of the species. Dicrostylis Wallichii is a very 
common and variable Himalayan and Khasian plant; and probably, as hitherto defined, includes more 
than one species. To illustrate the great differences in form of lip that occur in plants of M. Wallichii or 
closely allied species not hitherto distinguished from it, I have added to the plate enlarged figures of the 
following :— 
A. Flower of a Khasian specimen, with sessile leaves cordate at the base; Al, dorsal, A2, lateral sepal ; 
АЗ, petal,—all spread out. 
B. Flower of another Khasian specimen with narrower, longer-petioled leaves; the lip nearly rounded at 
the apex; auricles long, parallel, acute, 
С. Lip and dorsal sepal from the type of M. Wallichii, Lindl., in Herb. Kew (Wall. Cat. n. 1938.1). The 
sepals are very broad and the lip contracted opposite the columa and 3-lobulate at the apex; the 
| auricles divergent. 
D. Flower from a large form cultivated at Kew, named M. biloba, Reichb. f. The leaves are 6—7 by 
_ 22} m; scape with raceme 12—14 in.; bracts 3 in. long, reflexed ; lip 2-lobulate at the apex; 
auricles parallel, 
Ж. Flower of specimen from the Andaman Islands (Kurz) with the apex of the lip acute and auricles cross- 
ing. Leaves all broadly ovate, 3—4 by 2—2} in. The lip appears not to be concave in front of 
the column, It is probably a distinct species. 
from a drawing by Mr. Parish. 
G. Flower of var, brachycheila, from Moulmein, labelled М. biloba by Parish; the leaves are petioled, 
lanceolate, ; 
The drawing which is reproduced in Plate 2 was inscribed “ Sikkim, 4,000 feet, July 14, 1874, G. King.” 
ws E The figures land 2 at the left-hand upper corner and the analyses at the left-hand lower corner are those of the 
_ Specimen represented ; 1, front and 2, back view of flower; 3, lip; 4, dorsal Sepal; 5 and 6, lateral sepals ; 7 and 8, 
Ç petals ; 9, column—a/Z enlarged. 
PLATE 3. 
Liparis (Mollifolie) GAMBLEI, Hook. Fi 
pseudobulbis subglobosis, folio solitario sessile vel petiolato ellipticovel 
enulato v. integerrimo, bracteis ovatis acutis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis 
Do" e 
oblongo plinto. 
