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LIPARIS foliosa. 
Many-leaved Liparis. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDEm. Sect. V. Malaxidex. Lindl. supra, fol. 825, 
in textu. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, decidua. Pollinia 2, v. 4 per 
paria coheerentia, cereacea, filo et glandulis nullis.—Herbze sepissime terres- 
tres, folits membranaceis. Scapi terminales. Flores herbacet, inconspicui. 
Labellum sepius posticum. 
LIPARIS, Rich. Labellum planum, explanatum, integrum, varia 
versum. Columna alata. Pollinia 4. 
L. foliosa; foliis radicalibus inzequalibus lanceolatis integris acutis carnosis 
racemo subzequalibus, labello oblongo retuso, clinandrio integerrimo. 
Herba terrestris, acaulis, bulbis nullis. Folia 3, v. 4, suberecta, crassa, 
oblong-o-lanceolata, subcomplicata, glaberrima, acuta; ultimo spice longi- 
tudine ; extus ad basin foliis duobus abortivis vaginata. Racemus termi- 
nalis, erectus, 8-12-florus. Flores parvi, virides, distantes, undique versi. 
Ovarium bractea multoties longius, cum pedicello articulatum.. Perian- 
thium explanatum, sepalis liberis, subequalibus, lineari-lanceolatis, reflexis ; 
labello viridi-luteo, libero, oblongo, erecto-patente, integro, retuso. Columna 
tenuis, erecta, libera, marginata, clinandrio marginato, integro. Anthera 
bilocularis, terminalis, opercularis, decidua, Pollinia 4, cereacea, filo nullo, 
». saltem citissimé obsoleto. 
For this curious new species of Liparis we are obliged 
to Robert Barclay, Esq. by whom it was received from 
the Isle of France in 1823. Our drawing was made last 
August, from a plant cultivated in the stove of that gen- 
tleman’s collection; which is unquestionably the most 
extensive and useful ever formed by a private individual 
in this country. 
_ The genus Liparis, which was established by the 
late M. Richard upon the Ophrys Loselii of Europe, 
has now assumed an extent which certainly could not 
have been contemplated by that most excellent and 
learned botanist, who appears to have been acquainted. 
only with the European Ophrys and the Malaais liliifolia 
of N. America. . 
