. 
Eria. ] ORCHIDACE&. 193 
T. venosa, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. (1905)206 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 
692. Phaius albus, Lindl. in Wall, Pl. As. Rar. ii (1831), 85 
4. 198 ; Bot. Reg. (1838), t. 33 (not of Lindl.); Bot. Mag. t. 39913 
Pazt. Mag. Bot. xv, 125 ; F. B. I. v, 818 in part; K. & P.in Ann. 
R&R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 110, t. 153 ; Duthie id. ix pt. 2, 109 ; Prain 
Beng. Pl. 1014. Limodorum bracteatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind., iti,, 466. 
‘Pseudobulbs none. Stems stout, erect, tufted, 1-3 ft. long, bearing 
many tubular sheaths at the base. Leaves many, sessile, 14-3 ft. 
long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
membranous, glaucous beneath, usually plicate. Racemes 4-6-fld. 
4-6 in. long, shortly peduncled and with a single elongated sheath, 
Flowers 2-2} in. long; bracts equalling or exceeding the long-stalked 
ovary, oblong, cymbiform, acute, pale-coloured. Lip broadly 
oblong-panduriform when spread out; lower half convolute into a 
tube; upper portion cucullate, forming a rounded shell-like mouth 
slightly acuminate, the margins undulate and unequally dentate ; 
upper surface with 7-9 crested ridges. Spur horizontal, slightly 
bifid. Column with a short foot, somewhat winged at the apex. 
Pollinia unequal, elongate. Capsule 1} in. long, narrowly elliptic. 
Dehra Dun (Gamble, Mackinnon), sometimes found as an epiphyte on 
sél trees. Flowers in June. DistrrB.: Outer Himalayan ranges 
of Garhwal and Kumaon, up to about 4,000 ft. It extends eastwards 
to Sikkim, Assam, the Khasia Hills and Burma, and occurs also in 
Chota Nagpur. A variety with shorter and more congested racemes 
is mentioned by Cooke as having been found by Dalzell on the 
Matheran Hill in Konkan. 
9. ERIA, Lindl. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 785. 
Eviphytic and usually pseudobulbous. Pseudobulbs often 
elongated and stem-like. Flowers never large, rarely showy, 
arranged in racemes spikes or heads or on 1-2-flowered pedicels, 
often pubescent or tomentose. Sepals free from each other, adnate 
to the long foot of the column and with it usually forming a spur- 
like or saccate mentum. /Pelals similar to the sepals. Lip sessile 
on the foot of the column and jncumbent. Column short and 
straight or long and somewhat curved, prolonged below as a foot. 
Anther accumbent, imperfectly 4-celled or 8-celled; pollinia 8, 
pyriform or broadly obovoid, waxy, attached in fours by their 
