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bases to a granular membrane, or sometimes all attached together- 
to a single viscus.—Species over 300, chiefly in Tropical Asia. 
Flowers in dense spikes, che or feet 
hairy, not woolly . : . 1. £. convallarioides.. 
Flowers distant, sessile, on ou a Whscks 
woolly outside : . 2. EH. flava. 
1. E. convallarioides, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1975; Gen. & Sp.. 
Orch. 70; F. B. I. v, 791; K. & P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. 
vitt, 118, t. 161; Duthie id. ix, pt.. 2. 110. Octomeria spicata,. 
Don Prod. 31. 
Pseudobulbs tufted, flattened, 3-7 in. long, covered) when young with 
large loose sheaths. Leaves four to six, subcoriaceous, 4-7 in. long,. 
elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, many-nerved, but not. 
plicate. Spikes produced on the young growths, cylindric, decurved ;: 
peduncle about 1 in. long, stout, naked below. Flowers many, 
white tinged with yellow, densely crowded, subglobose, about 4 in. 
across, inodorous ; floral bracts equalling the sessile pubescent ovary, 
ovate, lanceolate, concave. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse; lateral 
pair deeply concave. Petals oblanceolate-oblong, spreading, nearly 
as long as the sepals but narrower. Lip obscurely 3-lobed, cuneate,. 
concave, apex subacute, the disk without lamelle. Column rather 
slender, with a long curved foot. Pollinia clavate, attached to a 
large translucent viscus. Capsule oblong, obtuse, not winged. 
Dehra Dun (P. W. Mackinnon), flowering during Aug. and Sep. 
Distriz.: Outer Himalayan ranges from Garhwal eastwards to- 
Nepal and Sikkim, up to 4,000 ft., also in Tenasserim. 
2, E. flava, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. (in part); Gen. & Sp. Orch. 
65; F. B. I. v, 801; K. & Pantl. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii,. 
126, t. 175 ; Duthie id. ix, pt. 2, 111 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1013. 
Rhizome stout, clothed with imbricating tubular sheaths. Pseudobulbs 
large, stem-like, of 4-6 nodes, 3-5 in. long, much compressed, sheathed 
at the base. Leaves 6-10 in. long, narrowly obiong, acuminate,. 
tapering to the base, subcoriaceous. Scapes from the base of the 
pseudobulbs, about as long as the leaves, clothed with dense pale 
tomentum and with many sheaths at the base. Flowers distant,. 
yellow, 2 in. across, Aennely white-woolly outside ; floral bracts lanceo-- 
late, pilose, shorter than the pinkish pilose stalked ovary, shrivelling 
as the flowers open. Dorsal sepal small, lanceolate; lateral pair- 
2 in. long, triangular, spreading. Petals smaller than the doreak: 
