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' 7. Trias. — Epiphyte. Rhizome creeping, bearing small pseudo- 

 fjulbs, flowers small, solitary. 



* * Pollinia 8, not appendaged. 



8. Eria. — Plants of varying habit grouped in the following 

 sections : — 



Section I. — Porpax. Small plants with depressed, crowded pseudo- 

 bulbs, clothed in a network of fibres. Flowers 1 to 3, sessile on the 

 top of the pseudobulb. 



Section II. — Conchidium. Small species as above. Floivers solitary 

 or in a short raceme from the top of the pseudobulb. 



Section III. — Bryobium. Also a small species. Pseudobulbs clus- 

 tered, depressed. Spikes 1 to 3 inches long, many-flowered. 



Section IV. — Hymeneria. Pseudohdbs long, thick. Racemes from 

 amongst the leaves. 



* * * Pollinia g, cohering in fours by granular appendages. 



9. Phajus. — Epiphyte, tufted. Leaves two-ranked, thin, deciduous ; 

 flowers showy, in dense terminal heads. 



* * * * Pollinia 4, connected by an appendage. 



10. Josephia. — Epiphyte, stemless and tufted. Leaves radical, 

 leathery. Flowers very small, in panicles. 



1 i . Pholidota. — Rhizome creeping. I'seudobidbs large, with single 

 leaves. Racemes long, pendulous, bearing prominent and closely set 

 brownish, two-ranked bracts. 



Descriptions of the plants belonging to the tribe Epulendrece. — [Unless other- 

 wise mentioned these have been taken frcm living examples. The paragraphs 

 placed within brackets and signed with the initials K. K. K. are from notes 

 supplied by Lieutenant-Colonel Kirtikar, I. M.S. (retired). ] 



1. OBERONIA. 

 Fleshy epiphytes, usually growing in clusters on the trunks of trees. 

 Leaves laterally compressed, few, two-ranked, crowded, green or brown 

 in colour, sword or slightly sickle-shaped, thickest in the middle and 

 near the base, thinning upwards and also towards the margins. 

 Flowers very minute in dense cylindrical spikes, sepals subequal,' petals 

 smaller, lip 2 to 4 lobed, column very short, pollinia 4, waxy. 

 Small plants. 



Lip with 3 distinct lobes 1. 0. recurva. 



Lip almost oblong 2. O.falconeri. 



L/arger plant. 



Lip broader than long, midlobe bifid or trifid. 3. 0. platycaxdon. 



