ORCHIDACE.E. 387 



J^ inch, elliptic acute, sheathing at the base, with strong 

 midrib and two pairs of very obscure lateral veins, fairly 

 thick and firm. Flowering-axis not as long as the leaves, 

 firm : bract broadly ovate, acuminate, five-nerved, clasp- 

 ing at the base the ovary. Sepals and petals spreading, 

 starlike, M inch : dorsal sepal J^ inch, obscurely five- 

 nerved ; lateral, H inch at the widest in shape like a 

 crescent with one arm (that attached to the long foot of 

 the column) cut off short. Petals J^ inch wide, narrowed 

 at the base. Lip erect rising from between the incurved 

 ends of the sepals from a base % inch wide, curved for- 

 wards ; its middle or terminal lobe 1/5 inch wide with 

 finely crenulate margin and white triangular tip, the rest 

 orange yellow, with two central crested ridges which 

 run back to the base of the column ; side lobes erect ^ 

 inch high, their upper edges purple. Column i/io inch 

 wide, in the lower J^ inch yellow edged with purple, 

 broadened below the anther to % inch for the stigma. 

 Anther projecting over the stigma, attached at the back 

 by a filament, with two oval pollen sacs in the hinder 

 and lower half. Polliniums four, attached altogether, 

 with a little powdery pollen in addition at the base. 

 Ovary MioVe inch, with six prominent crenulate ridges. 

 Pod ^ inch. t. 243. Wight Ic. t. 1637 (E. reticosaj. 



Nilgiris : on trees near Pykara, common. Odour distinct 

 though faint. The flower is as large as Ccelogyne odoratis- 

 sima and very like it in general appearance. Fyson 2722. 

 Bourne 5123. 



QcTi. Dist. Western Ghats and Ceylon. Not collected on the Pulneys. 



Eria nana A. Rich. ; F.B.L v 789, XIX 14. Tubers 

 M ioVz inch, clustered, round and depressed in the 

 centre, when dry marked with numerous raised reticu- 

 lating veins. Leaves oblanceolate or obovate,' I to 2 

 by ^ to M inch, thin, soon falling off the short base, 

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