090 CXXV. ORCniDACE^. 



and many subsimilar sheaths. Lateral sepals connate, pubescent, 

 concave ; dorsal sepal orbicular-ovate, 5-nerved (? free or connate with 

 the lateral ones). Mentum (sjmr) small, rounded. Petals linear- 

 spathulate, much shorter than the sepals. Lip very small, shortly 

 clawed, ovate-cordate, with toothed sides and an acute ti|). Eria 

 Lichenora, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 3 (1858) p. 46 ; Hook. £, Fl. 

 B. I. V. 5, p. 787 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 518 ; 

 Gammie, in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v. 17, part 1 (1906) p. 35. Lichenora 

 Jerdoniana, Wight, Icon. v. 5, part 1 (1852) p. 18, t. 1738 (figure not 

 good). — Flowers : July. 



KoNKAN : Stocks \, Law \ S. M. Country : Belgaum Gbats, SjMoner ex Gammie. 

 Kanaka : Spooner ex Gammie ; Sampkliand, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (W. 

 Peninsula). 



The plant requires the examination of fresh specimens. There is but one sheet in 

 Herb. Kew., the specimens on which are imperfect. Wight says in bis description 

 (Icon. I. c.) that the sepals are adherent at the base, but this is not shown in his 

 drawing, which is not good, his material, as he has explained, having been limited. 



11. ERIA, Lindl. 



Epiphytic usually pseudobulbous herbs ; pseudobulbs often elongate 

 and stem-like. Flowers never large, rarely showy, often pubescent or 

 tomentose, in racemes, spikes, or heads on 1-2-flovvered peduncles. 

 Sepals free, adnate to the elongate foot of the cohimn and forming 

 with it a short or long and spur-like or saccate mentum. Petals like 

 the sepals. Lip sessile on the foot of the column and incumbent. 

 Column short and straight or long and little curved. Anther imperfectly 

 4- or 8-celled ; pollinia waxy, pyriform or broadly obovoid, attached in 

 fours by their bases to a granular membrane or occasionally all attached 

 to a single viscus. — Distrib. Tropical Asia ; species more than 100. 



Flowers solitary on slender scapes 1. E, reticosa. 



Flowers in racemes. 



Small plants less than 4 in. high ; leaves less than 3 in. 

 long; sepals and petals greenish-yellow. 



Margins of sepals entire ; lip ovate-lanceolate 2. E. Balzellii. 



Margins of sepals ciliate with minute gland-tipped 



hairs; lip pandurate 3. E. microchilos. 



Plant exceeding 4 in. high ; leaves 4-8 in. long; sepals 

 and petals white 4. E. mysorensis. 



1. Eria reticosa, WirjU, Leon. v. 5 (1852) p. 4, 1. 1637. Caespitose, 

 stemless ; pseudobulbs i-f in. in diam., enclosed in a net-like sac, 

 depressed-globose. Leaves 2, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acute, 1-3 by |— | in. Flowers solitary, large for the size of the plant, 

 on slender scapes 1-1 f in. long ; bract below the flower large, -3- in. long 

 and nearly as broad, ovate, acute, cordate, strongly nerved. Sepals pure 

 white; lateral sepals reaching ^ in. long by ~ in. broad at the base, falcate, 

 acute, 7-nerved ; dorsal sepal nearly 1 in. long by \- in. broad, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved. IMentum short, broad, sac-like. Petals 

 white, as long as the lateral sepals, i in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 5-nerved. Lip ^ in. long, 3-lobed ; side lobes long, narrow, rounded, 

 white edged with a purple line (ItitcJiie) ; midlohe ]-- 1- in. long, ovate, 

 acute, yellow at base and white towards the tip (Oammie), the margins 

 eubcrcnulate ; disk with 2 crested ridges. Column very short, yellow. 



