272 ORCHIDES. 



KRIA. 



texiure aml vcry pale greenish yellow flowers , wliosc lip has a yellow centre, and a 

 border benutirully streaked and spotteil wiih crimson. 

 [luc porro.B. Reg. XXVIII. 1842. 21 : 



TRICHOSMA Lindl, 



Sepala palula, aequalia , lateralia basi producta columnae pedi ad- 

 nata. Petala conformia, erecta. Labeilum trilobum, cristatum, cucul- 

 latum, cum pede 'columnae articulatum. Columna carnosa, [marginata. 

 Anthera carnosa, fornicata, bilocularis, valvis verticalibus margine spha- 

 celatis. Poll. 8, quaternatim cohaerentia, duobus cuique phalangi mi- 

 noribus difformibus. Epiphyta, ebulbis, caule squamis verrucosis ve- 

 stilo diphyllo. Folia subcarnosa petiolata. Spica terminalis, basi 

 spathacea. 



DifTers from Coelogyne in the projecting footTof the wingless column, in the singular 

 fleshy anther and in the 8 pollens. It is more nearly allied to Ceratlum , but the 

 genus according to Blume has a two celled anther, 4 of the pollenmasses very 

 small, a siliquose fruit, and ihe inflorescence opposite the leaves. Indeed as il is 

 described as caulescent, with sessile lanceolate coriaceous leaves , it seems to be 

 altogether a differeni kind of plant. 



Trichosma suavis Lindl. 1. c. 



Columna semiteres, carnosa, marginata. Anthera carnosa, antice pro- 

 jiciens rotundata, fornicata, bilocularis, valvis verticalibus , margine nigro- 

 sphacelatis. Poll.8, cereacea, libera , quaternatim cohaerentia ; duobus 

 cuique phalangi ovalibus, duobus cuneatis emarginatis. 



Leg. Gibson : Chirra disirict of ihe Khoseea, and grows upon trees in densely shaded 



woods near the summit of the hills. 



24. ERIA EPHEMERA Rchb. fll. Huc : Eria bicolor Lindl. in Contributions to the Or- 

 chidology of lodia pag. 58. — Dendrobium bicolor Lindl. (Jam exslat et Eria bicolor 

 Lindl. Orch. pag. 65 — imo etiam cingalensis, sed racemosa ! ) 



25. ERIA PAUCIFLORA R. Wight Ic. V. 1. 1851. 1636. 



Caespitose, stems erect, succulent, joints thickened at the apex, 

 with a leaf at each joint, last joint thickened, tuberous, surmounted by 

 two leaves, from between which rises the short 1- or 2 flowered ra- 

 ceme: leaves ovate, oblong, obluse; .flowers longish pedicelled: sepals 

 about equal or slightly longer, than the narrow linear petals : lip some- 

 what corrugated furnished with 2 lamellae nearlhebase. Flowers white. 



Growing on moist rocks, forming dense masses exposed to she spray of the river 

 below thc Kaitie Falls , Neilgherries. Flowers Aug. Sept. Stems become like pseudo- 

 bulbs at the apex. 



26. ERIA NUTANS Lindl. — Bot. Reg. XXVL 1840. Misc. 196. 



Caule tereti folioso, foliis oblongis undulatis snbstriatis basi canali- 

 .culatis, flore campanulato solitario terminali nutante glabriusculo, braclea 

 plana patente carnosa subrotundo- ovata, sepalis lateralibus duplo latio- 

 libus basi rotundatis apice petalisque obtusis, labelli trilobi lobis late- 

 ralibus erectis, intermedio transverso carnoso, apiculalo: linea una per 

 axin producta infra apicem interrupta et magis elevata, duabus laterali- 

 bus abbreviatis prope sinus. 



Flower white , beneath it a roundish ovate flesh coloured thick bract. The tip of 

 petols and labellum is ycllow. Sincapore. Cuminp. Loddiges. (129). 



