LIPARIS. . 93 
deflexed. Flowers about 8 mm. long, brownish-purple. Dorsal sepa! linear-oblong, obtuse, 
reflexed; lateral pair similar in shape but broader and spreading. Petals linear 
spreading, their margins, like those of dorsal sepal, recurved. Lip oblong, very concave, 
deflexed from about the middle, revolute, bearing two sharp tooth-like calli at its base; 
edges entire or slightly crenulate, the apex blunt with a small triangular apiculus. Column 
curved, slightly winged near the apex. Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii, 263; Hook. f. 
Fl. Br. Ind. v, 693; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 28, plate 
35. Empusa paradoza Wal. Cat. 1937 В; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 17. Cymbidium? 
bituberculatum Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 116. Sturmia bituberculata Reichb. f. іп Bonplandia 
n, 22. 
Kumaon, Blinkworth ; extending to Nepal, the Sikkim Himalaya and the Khasia 
Hills. Flowers in July. 
8. LIPARIS LONGIPES Lindl. in Wall. Pl, As. Rar. 1, 31, t. 35. 
Epiphytal. Pseudo-bulbs close together in a row, cylindric and stem-like, or swollen 
at the base, 7:5 to 15 cm. long, with a few vertical striz and tightly clasping sheaths. 
Leaves two, oblanceolate-oblong, subacute to acuminate, sometimes aristate, 10 to 15 em. 
long and 9 cm. broad. Inflorescence erect, shorter or longer than the leaves; peduncle 
slender, terete, ebracteate; raceme twice as long as the peduncle, many-flowered; floral 
bract linear-lanceolate, shorter than the pedicelled ovary. Flowers 7 mm. long, pale 
yellowish-green. Sepals linear-oblong, subacute. Petals shorter than sepals, linear, 
obtuse, reflexed and with recurved edges ая are the sepals. Lip broadly oblong, re- 
curved from about the middle, the inner margins at the base much thickened so as 
to form triangular processes; no true calli, sides entire, the apex broad and shortly 
apiculate. Column slightly curved, with very small rounded wings. Wall. Cat. 1943 (in 
part); Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 40; Wight Ic. t. 906; Thwaites Enum. Pl, Ceyl. 
295; Benth. Fl. Hongkong 352; Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxii, 293 (excl. L. elegans 
Lindl); Hook. f. Fi. Br. Ind. v, 703; King & Pantl. in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. 
viii, 29, plate 37 Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvi, 7 L. pendula Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
1838, Mise. 180. ?Г. nesophila Reichb. f. Ot. Hamb. i, 56. L. spathulata Lindl. in 
Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 189, р. 81. Liparis longipes var. spathulata Ridley 1. с.; King & 
Pantl. l. c. 30, plate 38. 
Tropical Himalaya, from Dehra Dun to Kumaon, up to 3,000 feet, flowering in 
September and October. This species extends eastwards to Sikkim, Bhutan and the 
Khasia Hills, and southwards to the Nilgiris and Ceylon; it is also found in China 
and in the Malay and Pacific Islands. 
L. longipes is a widely distributed and polymorphie species. The Dehra Dun plant agrees best 
with Lindley's L. spathulata, which has shorter and thicker pseudo-bulbs, rather broader leaves and 
shorter racemes than in the type. Sir Joseph Hooker observes (in Fl. Br. Ind. 1. с.) that it occurs 
everywhere along with the form having long pseudo-bulbs, and that intermediates abound. 
9. Ілғағів Durar Hook, f. Ic, Plant. 1857 B. 
Epiphytal. Pseudo-bulbs tufted, ovoid, 8 to 12 mm, long. Leaf linear-oblanceolate 
tapering to the base, petioled or sessile, 2:5 to 7:5 cm. long by 5 % 10 шш. broad, Zn- 
florescence as long as the leaf, peduncle winged, a little longer than the raceme, 
