786 CXLVIII. OHOHIDBJS. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eria. 



usually fleshy, cylindric. (Cylindrolobus, Blume, Gen.) (See also Gen. 33. TRI- 

 CHOSMA). Sp. 52-60. 



VII. DENDEOLIKION, Lindl. Stems or pseudobulbs very various. Leaves one or 

 few, terminal or subterminal on the pseudobulbs, or on. a creeping rhizome. Flotvers 

 in terminal or sub terminal spikes or racemes, or sub solitary on the rhizome, 

 woolly or densely tomentose. 



* Pseudobulbs usually large. Inflorescence white-woolly. Sp. 61-68. 

 ** Pseudobulbs large. Inflorescence brown-tomentose. Sp. 69-70. 

 *** Pseudobulbs very small or 0. Sp. 71-76. 



VIII. BAMBUSIFOLIA, Hook. f. Stem tall, terete, leafy. Leaves distichous, 

 elliptic or lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers in leaf-opposed racemes, glabrous or 

 tomentose. Sp. 77-79. 



IX. TRICHOTOSIA, Blume (Gen.). Stems usually long, terete, leafy (short and 

 creeping in E. sedifolia), often hirsute. Leaves narrow, distichous. Flowers in 

 leaf-opposed clusters, spikes or racemes, more or less hirsute ; lip usually very 

 narrow and stiff; mentum short. Sp. 80-90. 



X. XIPHOSIUM. Pseudobitlb uninodal, 1-leaved. Scape from the base of the 

 pseudobulb, clothed below with equitant sheaths, the uppermost ensiform. Flower 

 rather large ; sepals keeled ; ovary and pedicel tripterous. Sp. 91. 



XI. ACEIDOSTACHYA, Hook.f. Pseudobulb very short, 1-leaved, sheathed as 

 in Xiphosium. Scape from the base of the pseudobulb, stout, erect. Flowers 

 minute, in dense rusty-tomeutose spikes ; sepals very short ; mentum long, spur- 

 like. Sp. 92. 



XI J. DILOCHIOPSIS, Hook. f. Stems tufted, tall, erect, leafy. Leaves dis- 

 tichous, eusiform. Flowers in a short terminal branched panicle with large deciduous 

 rigid bracts. Sp. 93. 



XIII. PELLAIANTHUS, HooJc. f. Stems terete, short, erect from a creeping 

 rhizome. Leaves 2, terminal. Spike short, lateral; perianth very thick; column 

 with a very short foot or 0. Sp. 94. 



Sect. I. PORPAX (see p. 785). 



1. E. reticulata, Senth. in Gen. PI. iii. 509 ; sepals united in a sub- 

 campanulate very short broadly 3-lobed tube, petals spathulate 5-nerved, 

 mentum obscure, lip half the length of the petals very shortly clawed 

 panduriform, base with a long erect spur. Porpax reticulata, Lindl. in 

 Sot. Reg. xxxi. (1845), ^ Misc. 62; Walp. Ann. vi. 266. Cryptochilus 

 reticulatus, ReicJib. f. in Sot. Zeit. 1862, 214. Aggeianthus reticulatus, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1737. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; lyamallay Hills, Wight. Canara; at Chandway, 

 Ritchie. 



Pseudobulbs f in. diam., densely crowded. Leaves not seen. Flowsr - f in. 

 long, purple-brdwn, minutely hispid ; pedicel very short, with a very large broad 

 bract and many sheaths; nerves strong, petals and lip subcrenulate ; pollinia 4 or 8, 

 pyriform. 



2. E. IKeirax, N. E. Sr. in Gard. Chron. 1880, 603 ; sepals glabrous 

 5 nerved coherent into a gibbons-based tube with free ovate acute lobes, 

 petals broadly oblong 5-7-nerved ciliate, lip minute ovate-cordate 5-nerved 

 serrulate. E. Elwesii, ReicJib. f. in G-ard. Chron. 1883, i. 402. Crypto- 

 chilus Meirax, Par. 8f Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 148. 



TENASSERIM 5 at Moulmein, Parish. SIZKIM HIMALAYA, ELwes. 



Pseudobulbs ^ in. diam., minutely reticulate. Leaves not seen in Moulmein 

 specimens, in Sikkim 1 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute, petioled. Flowers % in. long; 

 bracts very large, hemispheric, with a long mucro. Mr. Brown indicates the 



