Eria?\ Orchidece. 165 



or broadly obovoid, waxy, attached in fours or all together by 



their narrow bases to a granular membrane or viscus. — Sp. 



upwards of 150; 95 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Pseudobulbs small. 

 Fl. 1-3, pedicelled on the top of the pseudobulb . i. E. braccata. 



Fl. spicate 2. E. muscicola. 



Stem elongate. 



Stem very stout, simple. 



T.ip entire, or nearly so 3- E. BICOLOR. 



Lip 3-lobed. 



Sep. scurfy 4. E. TRICOLOR. 



Sep. glabrous 5. Lindleyi. 



Stem branched, terete, with woolly scales . . 6. E. Thwaitesii. 



1. E. braccata, Lindl. iti Joicrii. Linn. Soc. iii. 46 (1859). 

 Dendrobiuin braccaiuin, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 75. Thw. Enum. 



299. C. P. 2356. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 787. 



Pseudobulbs \-\ in. diam., densely crowded on a short 

 branched rootstock with long filiform roots, depressed globose, 

 at first clothed with a network of fibres, at length naked, pale 

 green; 1. 2, unequal, caducous, i^-if in. long, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, pale bright green, base 

 shortly sheathing; fl. solitary or 2-3, pedicelled on the top of 

 the pseudobulb, pedicels about i in. long, slender, naked; 

 bract \-h as long as and incumbent on the dorsal sepal, 

 triangular-ovate or oblong, acute, cymbiform, green ; sep. and 

 pet. 5-veined, ^-i in. long, dorsal sep. linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 lateral broader, oblong-lanceolate, subacute ; mentum broad, 

 incurved, truncate; pet. like the dorsal sep.; lip rather shorter 

 than the sep., inflexed and recurved, subpanduraeformly 

 oblong, tip rounded, disk with 3 ridges ; pollinia shortly 

 pyriform ; stigma large; fr. | in., obovate-ovoid. 



Montane zone to 6000 ft.; rather common. Hantane; Ramboda; 

 N. Eliya; Dumbanagala, Rangala ; Horton Plains. P^i. October, April- 

 August ; creamy white, the lip yellow at the base, and with the ridges 

 pink. 



Endemic. Very near C. reticosa, Wight (Ic. t. 1637) of the Nilgiri 

 Mts., which has the lip 3-lobed. 



2. E. muscicola, Lindl. in Jour n. Linn. Soc. iii. 47 (1859). 

 Thw. Enum. 299. C. P. 2355. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 789. 



Pseudobulbs clustered on a rather slender creeping root- 

 stock, depressed-globose, \-\ in. diam., green; 1. 2-3 on the 

 top of the pseudobulb, petioled, 1-4 in. long, broadly ovate- 

 obovate or linear to oblanceolate, tip acute or rounded, 

 apiculate, dark green; ped. from between the leaves, with 

 the 3-6-fld. spike 1-2 in. long, filiform, naked; fl. \-\ in. 



