92 MALAXIDEAJE. 
spathulate, dorsal with a cordate base. Petals linear, reflexed. Lip flat, quadrate, 
obeordate, with a minute mucro in the sinus, green tinged with lilae, margins minutely 
crenulate, claw channelled above. Column long, slender, winged on the sides. Anther 
with a broad triangular beak. Hook. f. Ic. Plant. 1813; Fl. Br. Ind. v, 694; Collett 
Fl. Siml. 492. Г. olivacea (іп part) Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. & Thoms. (not of Lindl.); 
Royle ПІ. 364. L. rupestris (in part) Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii, 145 (not of 
Griffith). 
Simla to Kumaon at elevations between 5 and 8,000 feet. Simla, Т. Thomson, 
Gamble; Jaunsar, Gamble No. 27163, Озтазіоп (Duthie’s No, 21774); N.-W. India, 
Royle (L. olivacea); Mussoorie, Falconer, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 637(а), 21773, 21774, 
22971. In flower during July. 
Prarg 96. Liparis rostrata Reichb. f.—A  plant,—o; natural size. 1, front view of 
flower; 2, back view of ditto; 3, column; 4, anther; 5, pollinia;—al/ enlarged. 
6. LiPARIS PARADOXA Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi, 218. 
Terrestrial Pseudo-bulbs narrowly ovoid, Stems about 15 cm. high, slightly bulbous 
at the base, bearing several sheaths. Leaves two or three, 12—13 cm. long and about 
2-5 em. broad, alternate, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, narrowed to the amplexicaul 
sheath, plicate, 5-nerved. Inflorescence longer than the leaves, the peduncle finely striate 
with one or two linear spreading bracts; raceme as long as or longer than its peduncle 
few-flowered; floral bract ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the twisted stalked ovary. Flowers 
1:3 em. long, green, the lip dull-purple. Dorsal sepal linear, blunt, spreading, its 
margins recurved; lateral broadly ovate, 5-nerved, recurved. Lip quadrate, abruptly 
deflexed from the middle, concave, and bearing two erect tooth-like calli; the edges 
entire; apex broad, emarginate, erose, and shortly apiculate. Column not curved, its 
upper half hood-like from the large rounded crenulate wings. Anther acuminate. Ridl. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiio, 261; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 698; King & Pantl. in 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 27, plate 34; Collett Fl. Siml. 492, L. odorata 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 26; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Сеуі, 295.  Empusa paradoza Lindl, 
in Wall. Cat. 1937A (in part); Bot. Reg. sub. t. 825; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 17; Royle 
Ш. 364; Mig. Prolus, Fl. Japon. 135; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 426. Malazis 
lancifolia Smith in Rees Encycl. 
Abundant on the outer ranges from Simla to Kumaon, up to 7,000 feet, 
flowering during the rainy season. This species extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, 
the Naga and Khasia Hills and Bengal, and southwards through Central and 
Southern India to Ceylon; it occurs also in Burma, Siam, China, Japan and 
Java. 
7. LiPARIS BITUBERCULATA Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub, 882. 
Terrestrial. Stems tall, tufted, erect, robust, fleshy, 2 to 2-5 dm. Leaves four or five, 
1 to 2 dm. long, obliquely ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 7-nerved, 
plicate, membranous, polished, the base tapering into the broad sheathing petiole. 
Inflorescence erect, stout, striate, much longer than the leaves; peduncle without bracts; 
raceme about 15 cm. long, rather few-flowered; floral bract minute, cordate, acute, 
