CXXV. OBCHIDACEyE. 689 



long, obtuse, 3-nerved. Petals liuear-oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved. Lip 

 fleshy; side lobes small, rounded; midlobe subquadrate, rounded, some- 

 what saccate between the side lobes. Column purple. Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 823 ; Trim. ¥1 Ceyl. v. 4, p. 182 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1899) p. 518. 



Kaivara : Stocks, 50 !, Law ! 



Wight's draftsman has transposed tlie figures of the inflorescence in the ' Icones,' 

 giving the inflorescence of Joscphia lanceolata to Josephia latifolia. 



10. PORPAX, Lindl. 



Small epiphytes with much depressed subdiscoid pseudobulbs clothed 

 with reticulate sheaths. Leaves 2, membranous, caducous. Flowers 

 1-3, subsessile on the top of the pseudobulbs. Sepals connivent at 

 the base, often all connate into a tube or the lateral only connate ; 

 lateral pair oblique at the base and adnate to the long-produced foot 

 of the column. Petals small, free, usually shorter than the sepals. 

 Lip sessile on the foot of the column and incumbent. Column short, 

 wingless, its foot very long. Pollinia normally 8, pyriform or obovoid, 

 attached by fours to a very short granular membrane. — Distrib. 

 Species 6, all East Indian. 



This genus, founded by Lindley in 1845 (Bot. Reg. Misc. p. 62), has been inchided 

 under Eria by Bentham & Hooker f. [Gen. PI. v. 3 (1883) p. 509], but has been 

 again separated by King & PantHng [Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya in Ann. Koy. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) p. 113]. 



Flowers dark purple, campanula te ; leaves oblong ; sepals connate 



almost throughout their entire length into a tube 1. P. reticulata. 



Flowers yellow, 2-lipped ; leaves suborbicular ; lateral sepals 



connate at the base ; dorsal sepal free or nearly so 2. P. Lichenora. 



1. Porpax reticulata, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. v. 31 (1845) Misc. p. 62. 

 Pseudobulbs button-like, | in. in diam., covered with lace-like sheaths. 

 Leaves less than 1 in. long, broadly oblong. Plowers solitary, 

 reaching k in. or more long, purple-brown, rising from between the 

 leaves with sheaths and an orbicular bract at the base. Sepals all 

 connate in a subcampanulate 3-lobed tube, strongly nerved on the 

 inside ; lobes broadly ovate, acute. Petals included in a sepaline tube, 

 "3 by -iij"tV i^-' spathulate, strongly 5-nerved. Mentum {sjmr) obscure. 

 Lip \ in. long, panduriform, crenulate, shortly clawed, furnished at the 

 base with an erect subulate tooth-like process. Pollinia 8, pyriform. 

 Pruit not seen. Eria reticulata, Benth. in Gen. PI. v. 3 (1883) p. 509 ; 

 Hook. f. PI. B. I. V. 5, p. 786 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 518 ; Gammie, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 17, part 1 (190H) 

 p. 35. Aggeiantlms marchantioides, Wight, Icon. v. 5, part 1 (1852) 

 p. 18, t. 1737. — Plowers : June-July. 



Thoughout the Western Ghats, but not easy to discover as the pseudobulbs are 

 suiall and resemble tlie bark on which they rest. Kanara : Chandwar, Ritchie, 1415 ! 



2. Porpax Lichenora, T. Cooke. Pseudobulbs depressed, disk-like, 

 \-\ in. in diam., crowded, covered with a fibrous network. Leaves 2 

 on each pseudobulb, \-\\ in. long, broadly ovate or orbicular, ciliate, 

 browuish beautifully tessellated with green {Gammie). Plowers \ in. 

 long, yellowish, 2-lipped ; pedicels very short with a broad cihate bract 



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