798 OXLVIII. OROHIDE.E. (J. T). Hooker.) [Ei-ia. 



cylindric, leaves few 8-12 in. petioled elliptic-lanceolate, racemes slender 

 laxly many-fld. drooping subtomentose, bracts linear-oblong shorter than 

 the slender ovaries, flowers small, lateral sepals short acute, mentals 

 subcylindric-sacciform, base rounded, petals elliptic acute 3-nerved, lip 

 with a long claw expanding into a subreniform or fan-shaped rugose 

 limb. 



PERAK; on Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray. 



Pseudobulbs 3 in., tufted, base swollen. Leaves 2-3, contracted into a slender 

 l-li i n . petiole, plaited. Racemes 5 in., brown-pubescent ; bracts in. ; pedicels 

 with ovary longer than the saccate raentum ; flowers about in. diam., membranous, 

 glabrous within, " shades of dull pink, claret, and yellow," Wray. An anomalous 

 species, with the habit of this group, but a very different lip. 



49. E. concolor, Par. Sf HeiM. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 148 ; 

 pseudobulbs fusiform, leaves linear-lanceolate, racemes suberect few-fld. 

 sparsely pubescent, bracts small ovate-lanceolate, lateral sepals in. ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate and oblong acute petals 3-5-nerved, hypochile oblong, 

 base narrow cuneate, side lobes very narrow, disk with a thick ridge, 

 midlobe orbicular retuse apiculate. 



TENASSEEIM, Parish ; on Moolyet, Gallatly. 



Pseudobulbs 13 in., young clothed with truncate cupular imbricating sheaths. 

 Leaves 4-6 in., very narrow, rather membranous. Racemes very slender; flowers 

 2-4, pale yellow-green ; mentum obtusely triangular ; epichile dirty yellow ; column 

 rather long. Described chiefly from Parish's drawing. Very like G-riffithii, except 

 in the small bracts. 



50. E. XVXaing-ayi, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined.-, pseudobulbs tufted 

 fusiform, leaves 2-3 linear-lanceolate thickly coriaceous, racemes very 

 slender lax-fid, puberulous, bracts oblong as long as the very slender 

 pedicels, flowers small, lateral sepals triangular- ovate acute and linear- 

 oblong obtuse petals 5-nerved, mentum stout incurved, hypochile broadly 

 obovate-oblong 3-ridged, base rounded, side lobes rounded crenate small, 

 midlobe orbicular. 



PENANG; on Government Hill, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1632). 



Pseudobulbs 1-1| in. Leaves spreading rigidly horizontally. Racemes 2 in., 

 flowering nearly to the base ; bracts in. long, nerved ; sepals about in. long. 

 Reichenbach has given this the mss. name of JE 1 . anthomeniaca (in Herb. Kew), the 

 application of which I fail to see. 



51. B. tricolor, Thwaites Enum.A8&\ pseudobulbs tufted fusiform, 

 leaves many 5-9 in. lanceolate, bases sheathing, racemes slender laxly 

 many-fld. furfuvaceous, bracts small elliptic obtuse 1-nerved, sepals ovate 

 and linear-oblong petals obtuse white, mentum broad, hypochile cuneate 

 with subfalcate side lobes, midlobe rounded, tip recurved obtuse. 



CEYLON ; in higher parts of the Central Province, Thwaites. 



Pseudobulbs 3-5 in., polynodal, brown ; young clothed with many short obtuse 

 imbricating sheaths. Leaves 6-8 in., forming a distichous terminal tuft, recurved. 

 Racemes from the sides of the pseudobulb, erect, as long as the leaves ; bracts green, 

 shorter than the ovary ; flowers f in. diatn. 



*** Stem elongate, terete, cylindric or clavate (broad and compressed 

 in E. bifolia), fleshy or rigid. Leaves few, usually subterminal. Flowers 

 1-3, medium-sized, usually long-pedicelled on a short sometimes obsolete 

 lateral or subterminal peduncle; bracts large, often coloured, sessile 



