Eria.] CXLVIIT. ORCHIDER. (J. D. Hooker.) 801 
Scape in. ; bracts twice as long; flower i in. diam., yellow-white.— The Sikkim 
habitat is from a drawing of a garden specimen, Lindley, in founding his Æ. 
biflora on Griffith’s Trichotosia biflora, overlooked Griffith's E. biflora. 
Sect. VIT. DENDROLIRION (see p. 786). 
* Pseudobulbs usually large. Inflorescence white- or yellowish-tomentose 
or woolly, 
_ 61. E. flava, Lindl. in Wull. Cat. 1973 (in part); Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
65: in Journ. Linn. Soe. iil. 49 (exel. var. B.); pseudobulbs large 3-5- 
leaved, scape and sessile flowers white-tomentose, lateral sepals 3 in ovate- 
lanceolate obtuse 9-nerved, mentum subcylindric, petals obtuse 3-nerved, 
hypochile broadly oblong puberulous, lobes short broad, epichile snb- 
quadrately rounded. E. pubescens, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. under t. 904. 
E. laniceps, Reichb. Jf. in Hamb. Gartenzeit. xix. 10. Dendrobium 
? pubescens, Hook. Exot. Fl.5.194. Octomeria flava, Wall. mss. O. pubes- 
cens, Spreng, Syst. iv, 310. 
TROPICAL HIMATAYA, from Garwhal eastwards to Bhotan. . 
Pseudobulbs 3—4 in. ; base sheathed ; young leafy throughont, Leaves 6-10 in., 
petioled, acuminate, often loaded with concretions, Scape 6-10 in., stout; bracts 
2 m., ovate, acuminate ; ovary 2-1 in. ; flowers yellow with purplish markings on 
the disk of the lip, which is tumid or variously thickened, claw very broad; column 
short, broad.—In the Fl. Exot. figure the petals are ovate-oblong, obtuse, In a 
Garwhal specimen marked by Reichenbach as the true plant of Fl. Exot. the claw of 
the ip is pointed, and the thick disk of the midlobe trifid in front. In Garwhal 
‘pecimens of Falconer's marked E. laniceps by Reichb. the disk of the midlobe is 
thickened on each side with a central callus and another above the claw. — Wallich's 
1973 includes X. flava, elongata & tomentosa, . 
Var. lanata ; flowers smaller, lip narrower, midlobe purplish with thickened 
nerves on the disk, E. lanata, Griff. Notul. ii. 301; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
5,,9.—Sikkim Himalaya, J. D. H. Tenasserim, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5123), 
Helfer (Kew Distrib. 5122). 
62. E. elongata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 49; characters of 
E. Slava, but spikes often much longer, flowers smaller, often pedicelled, 
m oblanceolate. E. flava, Griff. Notul. iii. 301; Wall. Cat. 1973/3 (in 
part}, 
TrNAssERIM and Ava, Wallich, Griffith, Lobb, Parish. 
. doubt this being more than a variety of F. flava, but there may be several 
pecies included under this and Æ. flava. 
63. E. andamanica, Hook. f. le. Pl. ined.; pseudobulbs as in 
^ flava, leaves elliptic-lanceolate, lateral sepals 1 in. long acuminate X- 
tved, petals oblanceolate 5-nerved, lip 1 in. long narrowly oblong from a 
road claw pubescent, side lobes narrow acute, axis thickened, midlobe as 
Toad but much shorter subquadrate 2-fid veined, column long. 
Sourn ANDAMAN ISLAN Kurz. . 
ha I advance this as DE with great hesitation, but the long column, il 
cas s long as the dorsal sepal, and the corresponding long lip are very 
“aracters (if constant), 
$4 E pulchell i in W 7407 ; in Bot. Reg. 1841, Mise. 
OUT a, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7407 ; in £ ! 
EL Journ, Linn, Soc. dii ae pseudobulbs ellipsoid or clavate, leaves 
subcoriaceous, flowers few in a stout leaf-opposed white-tomentose 
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