386 ORCHIDACE.E. 



somewhat broader base, quite free of one another: 

 dorsal sepal Ye inch, marked with five reddish streaks 

 and a network. Side petals J^ inch, three-nerved. Lip 

 jointed to the projecting foot of the column, itself short, 

 curved backwards and upwards. Pollen masses, four, 

 more or less connected in pairs. 



Pulneys : in sholas near Kodaikanal. Bourne 584, 11 94, 

 1840, 2938. Nilgiris : Neduwattum. Wights Thomson^ Clarke. 



ERIA. F.B.I. 148 XIX. 



Small tree orchids remarkable for the round rather flat 

 bulb-like tubers, or pseudobulbs J4 inch across, jointed 

 together in rows, from the youngest of which rise a pair 

 of lanceolate leaves, set exactly opposite each other and 

 jointed to their bases, and a very slender flower-axis with 

 two to five white star-like flowers. 



Species : about 80 in tropical Asia. 



Flower i inch across, solitary : tubers enclosed in a network / . 



E. braccata. 

 Flowers % inch, two to five on the stalk : tubes naked . . . 



E. nana. 



Eria braccata Lindley (E. reticosa Wight) ; F.B.I 

 V 787, XIX 6. A small tree orchid distinguished by very 

 distinct netting over the flat round tubers, and the 

 single large white flower, over an inch across on the 

 slender stalk. 



Tubers MtoYz inch, less than Ye in-ch thick, joined 

 in rows and each enclosed in a very thin covering with 

 a raised network of veins, which meet in the centre, a 

 solid boss i/io inch across with a raised scar in the 

 middle. Leaves from an as yet unformed tuber, at the end 

 of the row ; basal sheathing scales two or three, imbricat- 

 ing like the leaves in two ranks, with crinkled and 

 curled back margins. Leaves l^ to I ^ inches by % to 



