8 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). | Liparis. 
I. LIPARIS, L. C. Rich. 
Sepals spreading, free, or the lateral more or less connate, often 
faleate and broader than the dorsal. Petals usually very narrow. 
recurved above the erect base, entire, often bituberculate at the 
base. Column usually long and slender, incurved, usually margined 
or winged at the tee anther terminal ; pollinia 4, free or cohering 
by a viscid appen 
Tecreetie or seabed cipiti, rales with or without pseudobulbs ; leaves one 
r more, membran contin with the sheath, or somewhat coriaceous 
and anad on the po or cancisbulls flowers ins or medium-sized, in lax o 
ense racemes ; bracts small or narrow ; flower ers small 
DISTRIB. as about mt found throu uae the warm and temperate 
regions of the globe, but mo merous in Tropical Asia. All the South 
African species ine to the pare ‘Molli folie. 
Raceme dense we eae sey ss a ... (1) capensis. 
Raceme lax: 
Leavis ovate to elliptic ... os eee ee -+- (2) Bowkeri. 
Leaves lanceolate ... ne ec “ei ies +» (3) Gerrardi. 
1. L. capensis (Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. i. ii. 314); pseudo- 
bulbs ovoid, #-1 in. long, usually 2 leaved ; leaves spreading, ovate, 
subacute, rather thick and coriaceous, with de epressed veins, shining 
above, }-24 in. long, }—14 in. broad ; seapes 2-6 in. high ; raceme 
dense, many-flowered ; bra acts lanceolate, acuminate, }—} in. long 
beac slightly longer than the bracts ; dorsal sepal linear. oblong 
tuse, 4—} in. long, with eerie margins ; lateral sepals ovate- 
ler subfaleate, subobt 1-1 jn. long ; petals linear, obtuse, 
about as long as the dorsal sepal, with revolute: margins ; lip Nedeehdna 
elliptic-oblong, truncate or obscurely bilobed at the apex, 1-1 in. 
? 3 oe 
long ; 3 sides inflexed towards the apex ; column clavate, incurved, 
vont ng. idl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 272; Bolus in 
Linn. Soe. xxv. 180, and Ie. Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 1; Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 187; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 8; 
Rolfe Afr, vii. 22. L. Pappei, ee te Harv. 
Thes. Cap. ii. 7. Sturmia capensis, Sond. in Linnza, xix. 
SourH Arrica: without reese Grey ! 
Coast Recion ; Cape Div. ; near Cape Town and ¢ on the Flats, below 100 ft. 
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Swellendam Div woods and on rocks at ishimongas » Bowie! Komgha Div. 
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Also in poe Africa, if a fruiting specimen from the Cameroons is rightly 
referred here. 
Bowkeri — Thes. Cap. ii. 6, t. 109); pseudobulbs ovoid 
or oblong, 1-1} in. long, 3—4-1 leaved ; leaves elliptic-ob long or aba 
acute, loosely sheathing at the base, limb 1}~44 in, long, 3-2 
