out ; 7, ditto, side view ; 8, column, oblique view ; 9, 10, polli- 

 narium ; 11, column, front view. 



An erect glabrous herb, 7-60 cm., usually 20 cm. high ; leaves 

 1-2, erect linear-ensiform nerved sometimes longer, sometimes 

 shorter than the scape ; scape straight or somewhat flexuous, clothed 

 with 3-4 distant or imbricating sheaths ; raceme abbreviated 3-14- 

 flowered, l-3'5 cm. long ; bracts linear-lanceolate very acuminate, 

 usually longer than the pedicellate ovary ; sepals declinate oblong- 

 lanceolate acute, 0*8-l cm. long ; petals oblong, about as long as 

 the sepals, but narrower ; lip spurless, obovata in outline, about 

 as long as the sepals, 31obed, the lateral erect rounded, inter- 

 mediate larger crested with branched tubercles, truncate, slightly 

 undulate, the whole concave and somewhat cochleariform ; column 

 oblong acute, half as long as the lip, shortly produced at base 

 into a projecting foot. 



Described from several living and dried specimens. This is 

 nearly allied to E. Rcichenbachiana viihi and to E. Oliverimia 

 Reichb. f. Flowers entirely white. 



