200 ORCHIDACEE. [ Boropnra: 
subacute. Column as long as the lip, slender, without a foot. Pollinia 
broad; caudicle stout; gland elongate. Capsule . in. long, ellipsoid. 
Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh (Wallich, Duthie).. 
Flowers Mar. to May. Distrts.: Nepal, Sikkim, Chittagong, 
Bengal and Upper Burma, extending to Baluchistan and Afghanistan. 
6. E, nuda, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7371; F. B. I. vi, 5; Hook. f. 
in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. v, 32, tt. 47—50 ; K. & P. id. viti, 180,. 
t. 243 ; Duthie id. ix, pt. 2, 127 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. wi, 694. 
Tuber large, spherical, smooth. Leaves 10-14 in. long, rising from the: 
side of a tuber and forming by their sheaths a short pseudo-stem, 
eiliptic-lanceolate, acute, plicate, many-nerved, narrowed at the 
base into a long tubular sheath. Flowering stem stout, erect, firm, 
2-3 ft. high, rising from the base of the pseudostem, with a few loose 
sheaths near the base and other more distant ones higherup. Racemes: 
lax, about 14 in. long, many-fld. Flowers usually pale-green or white 
with purple or pink or brownish markings; floral bracts lanceolate, 
acute, about half as long as the stalked ovary. Sepals about j in. 
long, erect, greenish-purple, linear-oblong, acute, 7-nerved; lateral 
pair slightly falcate, inserted on the spur of the lip, the dorsal one 
rather narrower. Spur very short, conical, obtuse, purplish-green, 
ribbed at the mouth. Petals shorter than the sepals, white, obtuse,. 
many-nerved. Lip as long as the sepals, white or pale yellow flush- 
ed with pink or purple, oblong ; side-lobes short, rounded ; midlobe,. 
oblong, obtuse, with a crisped margin; disk with about 9 strong: 
prominent nerves. Column short, with a distinct foot, dilated at 
the margins. Anther small, its apex with two small conical processes 
and a third depressed one in front. Pollinia transversely oblong,. 
attached by a broad caudicle to a shallow gland. Capsule 1} in. 
long, fusiform. 
N. Oudh, in the districts of Kheri and Gonda (Duthie’s Collector), 
Flowers April-June. Duistr1s.: Trop. Himalaya from Nepal east- 
wards to Sikkim; also in Chota Nagpur, Assam, Khasia Hills, 
Manipur and Burma, and south to Bombay Presidency and Ceylon. 
7, E. bicarinata, Hook. f. in F. B. I. vi, 6; K. & P. in Ann. Rw 
Bot. Gard. Calc. vitt, 180, t. 244 ; Duthie id. ix, pt. 2, 127 ; Prain 
Beng. Pl. 1916. Cyrtopera bicarinata, Lindl. 
Tuber about 2 in. long, compressed, irregularly lobed. Leaves usually 
undeveloped at the time of flowering, 7-12 in. long, Jinear, acuminate,. 
narrowed below into the long petiole. Scape erect, 10-20 in. high, 
with two tubular inflated sheaths at the base and a few shorter ones. 
