Liparis.] cxxxvi. orchide^e. 21 
*5 to 1 in. wide. Raceme 12 to 16 in. long. Flowers small, -25 in. 
wide, scattered at top, base nude. Sepals oblong-ovate, lateral 
ones falcate blunt. Petals linear, all green or purple. Lip hardly 
clawed, oblong refuse, green or purple, 2 small bosses at base. 
Column curved, greenish. Capsule pear-shaped, 1 in. long on a 
pedicel *25 in. long. Hab. Damp grassy spots, ricefields, not rare. 
Singapore, Tanglin; Changi. Malacca (Griffith); Chabau. Perak, 
Larut (Kunstler); Kampar (Curtis). Distrib. Cambodia. 
(4) L. transtillata Ridl. Journ. Linn, Soc. xxxii. 225; Mat. i. 
22. 
Stem 1*5 in. long. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate acute 
oblique, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles 2 in. long. Raceme 6 in. 
long, rachis winged. Flowers -5 in. wide; pedicels *36 in. long, 
purple. Sepals lorate purplish. Petals linear narrower. Lip 
oblong-obovate sub-retuse crenulate dark purple, a median olive 
green channel, a transverse raised bar at base, green with purplish 
spots. Column yellowish white nearly straight. Hab. Forests. 
Perak, Thaiping Hills. 
(5) L. Wrayi Hook. fit. F.B.I. vi. 181; Ridl. Mat. i. 22. L. 
pectinifera Ridl. Journ . Bot. 1898, p. 210. 
Stem 3 to 4-5 in. long, purple. Leaves lower ovate, upper 
lanceolate acute, 6 in. long, 3 in. wide or less. Raceme 6 in. long, 
angled. Bracts ovate-lanceolate acute, -12 in. long. Pedicel and 
ovary *5 in. long. Sepals linear blunt, -36 in. long. Petals shorter 
narrower green. Lip oblong, tip square bilobed, lobes toothed green, 
2 purple lines on disc, no calli. Column curved green. Capsule 
elliptic, nearly 1 in. long. Hab. Local. Bindings, Gunong Tungul, 
Perak (Wray). Temengoh (Ridley). 
(6) L. purpureo-viridis Bmkill MSS. 
Rhizome stout, creeping, 3 in. long; pseudobulbs crowded, 
elongate conic pale whitish pustular-rugose, x in. long, -25 in. through 
at base with 2 pale papery bracts, the largest 2 in. long, the smaller 
•5 in. long, both lanceolate acute. Leaf solitary herbaceous ovate 
cordate acute when young suffused with violet along the nerves about 
20 in number, slender, 3 in. long and as wide; petioles 1 in. long. 
Scape 6 in. long, slender. Flowers about 8; pedicels -3 in. long. 
Bracts very narrow lanceolate acute, -2 in. long. Sepals linear pale, 
•2 in. long. Petals much narrower filiform purple. Lip claw short 
broad, limb elliptic-lanceolate acute green fringed with linear purple 
processes, nerves 7 purple, -25 in. long. Column base broad with 
a short process on the front then abruptly narrowed curved, -x in. 
long. Hab. Mountains, Pahang, Fraser Hill at 4000 to 4370 ft. 
altitude (Burkill and Holttum). 
(7) L. Maingayi Ridl. Journ. Linn, Soc. xxxii. 226; Mat. i. 23. 
Microstylis Maingayi Hook. fil. Ic. PI. t. 1826. 
Stem short sub-globose. Leaf 1, orbicular-ovate, 3 in. long, 
2 in. wide. Raceme 4 in. long. Bracts lanceolate acuminate. 
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