stems, or bulbs, as they are often called, its obcordate 
labellum, and long green bractex. 
These species of Liparis have already been in part 
indicated at fol. 882 of this work, in which all the 
Isle of France and Madagascar species of M. du Petit 
Thouars are also taken up. We have, therefore, been 
surprised at finding the same species lately described 
with the same names, by our good friend M. Achille 
Richard, who was of course ignorant of the prior claim 
on our part to the names of the species he has distin- 
guished. A 
