ZERIDES. } ORCHIDACEZ. 20T 
surface with short blunt vertical ridges. Column stout, half as Jong 
as the lip, purple. Anther subquadrate, compressed. Rostellum 
— Pollinia ovoid, attached by a broad caudicle to the quadrate- 
gland. 
Dehra Dun, epiplytic chiefly on s4l trees (Gamble, Mackinnon). Flowers 
during March and April. Drstr1s.: Tropical Himalayan Valleys: . 
from Garhwal to Sikkim. It occurs also in Chota Nagpur. 
15. ERIDES, Lour.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 43. 
Epiphytes with leafy stems ; pseudobulbs none. Leaves lorate. 
rarely terete. Flowers usually many and showy, in dense or lax 
decurved racemes, sometimes solitary; floral bracts minute. 
Sepals broad, spreading ; lateral ones adnate to the base or foot of 
the column. Petals like the sepals. Lip adnate to the column, 
spurred ; side-lobes large or small or none ; midlobe longer than 
the side-lobes or smaller and incurved between them. Column 
short with a short or long foot. Anther 2-celled, beaked or not ; 
pollinia 2, globose, sulcate ; caudicle long or short ; gland VariOuss. 
—Species about 20, in E. Asia. 
Terminal lobe of lip larg2, hastate-ovate ; 
flowers pink with purple spots . ; . 1. A. multiflorum. 
Terminal lobe of lip small, linear or narrowly 
oblong; flowers white, spotted with Lilac, 
very fragrant ; ‘ ° : . 2 &. odoratum. 
1,4. multifiorum, Roxb. Cor. Pl. iii, 63, t. 271; Fl. Ind. tit, 
475; F. B. I. vi, 44; K. & P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 
212, t. 283 ; Duthie id. ix, part 2, 142 ; Prain Beng. Pi. 1020. 
Stem stout, 4-10 in. long. Leaves 6-8 in. long, narrowly oblong, con- 
duplicate, recurved, slightly tapering to the oblique bifid apex, not 
narrowed to the base, often tinged with red. Racemes longer than 
the leaves, simple, axillary, densely many~flowered ; peduncle long, 
clothed with short distant sheaths. Flowers 3-1 in. across, deep- 
pink and with darker spots. Sepals and petals about equal, oblong, 
blunt. Lip twice as long as the sepals, triangular, adnate to the: 
base of the column, acute or obtuse at the apex, margins erose ; 
basal portion thick and with a retrorse tooth or callus across the 
mouth of the short rectangularly bert spur. Column with a short 
foot, its margins thickened and slightly winged near the base. 
