Microstijlis.] CXXVII. ORCHIDE^. 1519 



■with raceme 2 to Sin. long, bracts shorter than the very short pedicels. Flowers 

 minute, yellowish, pale-brown or purplish. Sepals IJ to 2 lines long. Labellum 

 subquadrately ovate concave with a fold under the column and a 3-lobed apex. 

 Ovary trigonous and grooved. Pollen-masses free, oblique-ovate. Capsule about 



4 lines long, oblong. — M. Bcrmiysii, F. v. M. Fragm. xi. 21. 

 Hab.: Noithern rangee. 



3. LIPARIS, Rich. • 

 (In allusion to the soft surface of the leaves of some species). 

 (Sturmia, Endl.) 

 Sepals and petals all free and spreading, equal and similar or the petals and 

 ■dorsal sepal narrower. Labellum shortly embracing or united with the column 

 at the base, erect or ascending, entire. Column elongated, incurved, the apex 

 winged. Anther terminal, lid-like. Pollen masses 4, waxy, obovoid, equal in 

 pairs in the two cells, which are somatimes not closely contiguous. — Terrestrial 

 ■or epiphytical plants, the stems sometimes thickened at the base into small 

 pseudo-bulbs. Leaves at or near the base of the stem. Flowers greenish-yellow 

 white or faintly tiriged with red, in a terminal pedunculate raceme. 



The genus is widely spread ovei- the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old Word, with 

 one northern species found in both hemispheres. The Australian species are, as far as known, 

 all endemic. 



Sepals all narrow and nearly equal. 



Sepals 6 lines ioag. Labellum rhomboid. Flowers whitish 1. L. Nugcntm. 



Sepals and petals 3 J to 5 lines long. Labellum broadly oblong. 



Flowers white ... 2. L. reflexa. 



Flowers yellow . , • . . 3. L. cuneilahris. 



Sepals and petals 3 lines long. Labellum broadly obovate-euneate . . i. L. calogyiwides. 

 Sepal ■! and petals 3 lines long. Labellum longer ihan the other segments, 

 ending in 2 truncate lobes with an apiculate gland in the sinus . ■ . 5. L. mowhulana. 

 Lateral sepals broadly oblong, .falcate. Dorsal sepal and petals longer, 



narrow-linear. Labellum broadly oblong " . . 6. L. hahenarina. 



Capsule erect, elongated, pyritorm 7. L. Simmondsii. 



1. li. rCugentae (after Mrs. L. J. Nugent), Bail. Dot. Bull. xiv. with plate. 

 Epiphyte. Rhizome creeping, producing scape-like stems with the lower part 

 •covered with equitant leaves, but ultimately thickens into compressed, deep-green 

 pseudo-bulbs, 2Jin. high and lin. broad, bearing usually 2 linear leaves of from 



5 to 12in. long and lin. broad, sharply keeled and showing on each side of the 

 midrib 1 or 2 well-marked longitudinal nerves, sheathing base short, apex some- 

 what abruptedly acuminate; the pseudo-bulb always bearing on its crown the 

 remains of the old peduncle. Rhachis of flower raceme quadrangular, number of 

 ^flowers about 9. Bracts fugacious, very narrow. Pedicels 8 lines long. Sepals 

 about 6 lines long and scarcely a line broad, linear, with revolute margins, the 

 petals still narrower but quite as long, all reflexed and somewhat curled, pale 

 ■cream-coloured, no markings or veins visible. Labellum somewhat rhomboid 

 when flattened out, erect to about the height of the column, or about half its 

 length, then suddenly recurved, widening at the bend and almost forming a tooth 

 •on either side, otherwise margins entire, apex obtuse-apiculate ; disk with 2 

 thickened ridges stained a deep orange-colour, but scarcely raised into plates 

 ■except quite at the base. Column white incurved, 3 lines long, base rather broad, 

 upper part slightly expanding into wings. Anther small, flat apiculate in front 

 iike the rostellum ; pollen-masses pale. 



Hab.: Mountain range near Cairns, L. J. Nugent. 



2. Ii. reflexa (reflexed), Lindl. Bot. Reg. under n. 882; Benth. Fl. Austi'. 

 vi. 272. Stems from a shortly creeping rhizome, thickened at the base, the whole 

 plant including the raceme varying from 3 or 4in. to nearly 1ft. high when 

 luxuriant. Leaves almost distichous, tire 2 or 8 lower ones reduced to acute 



