﻿ERIA EXCAVATA, Lindl. 

 Okchideje. Tribe Erie*. 



E. excavata, Lindl in Wall. Gat. 1974 in part; pseudobulbis 

 senatis confertis subcylindraceis non caulescentibus, foliis 4-6 linean- 

 v. elliptico-lanceolatis nervosis, spicis foliis brevioribus paucifloris 

 pnbescentibus, bracteis lanceolatis ovaria subaequantibus, sepabs 

 ovato-lanceolatis subacutis, mento 0, petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis 

 p-nerviis, labello brevi sessili lobis lateralibus ovatis obtusis patentibus, 

 mtermedio polymorpho subrotundato late obovato v. subremforrm, 

 calhs disci variis, columna brevi lata pede profunde excavata. E. 

 sphaerochila et E. flava r Joum. Urm. Soc. w. 54, 



49. Octomeria excavata, Wall. M8S. 



Hab. Nepal, Wallich-, Sikkim and tbe Kbasia Hills, J. D. 



Pseudobulbi 1-2-pollicares, ovoidei v. subcylindracei. Folia 5-9- 

 cati lutei lobis lateralibus roseo-tinctis, nervis purpureis. 



There has been confusion about this plant from the first. The 

 name was proposed by Wallich, for the plant here figged but under 

 the same number he included in his type Herbarium, and distributea, 

 a very different species (E. confusa mihi, pi. 1850) ; and of this lat ter 

 alone flowering specimens were ffiven, under the name of excavata, to 

 ?£ Lindley, who described its stem as that of excavata K excavata 

 dife fromits near allies in this character of the .excavated .toot of the 

 column, and in that of the lip being entirely sessile the ^ e no* « u * 

 contracted, and the side lobes being hence basal. As fown by tne np_ 

 here figured the form and position of the calh on the disk vary 

 ceedmgly.— J. D. Hooeep. 



