Erici.] CXLVIIT. ORCHIDE.E. (,T. D. Hooker.) 801 



Scape -J in. ; bracts twice as long ; flower | in. diam., yellow- white. The Sikkim 

 habitat is from a drawing of a garden specimen. Lindley, in founding his IS. 

 biflora on Griffith's Trichotosia biflora, overlooked Griffith's E. biflora. 



Sect. VII. DENDROLIRION (see p. 786). 



* Pseudobulbs usually large. Inflorescence white- or- yellowish-tomentose 

 or woolly. 



61. E. flava, Lindl. in Watt. Cat. 1973 (in part] ; Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 

 65; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 49 (excl. var. /3.) ; pseudobulbs large 3-5- 

 leaved; scape and sessile flowers white-tomentose, lateral sepals f in ovate- 

 lanceolate obtuse 9-nerved, mentum subcylindric, petals obtuse 3-nerved, 

 hypochile broadly oblong puberulous, lobes short broad, epichile sub- 

 quadratejy rounded. E. pubescens, Lindl. in Sot. Beg. under t. 904. 

 E. laniceps, JReichb. f. in Hamb. Gartenzeit. xix. 10. Dendrobium 

 ? pubescens, Hook. Exo't. Fl. 1. 124. Octomeria flava, Wall. mss. 0. pubes- 

 cens, Spreng. Syst. iv. 310. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Garwhal eastwards to Bhotan. 



Pseudobulbs 34 in. ; base sheathed ; young leafy throughout. Leaves 6-10 in., 

 petioled, acuminate, often loaded with concretions. Scape 6-10 in., stout; bracts 

 ^-1 in., ovate, acuminate; ovary |-1 in. ; flowers yellow with purplish markings on 

 the disk of the lip, which is tumid or variously thickened, claw very broad; column 

 short, broad. In the Fl. Exot. figure the petals are ovate-oblong, obtuse. In a 

 Garwhal specimen marked by Reichenbach as the true plant of Fl. Exot. the claw of 

 the lip is pointed, and the thick disk of the midlobe trifid in front. In Garwhal 

 specimens of Falconer's marked E. laniceps by Reichb. the disk of the midlobe is 

 thickened on each side with a central callus and another above the claw. "SVallich's 

 1973 includes IE. flava, elongata & tomentosa. 



VAE. lanata ; flowers smaller, lip narrower, midlobe purplish with thickened 

 nerves on the disk. E. lanata, Griff. Notul. iii. 301 ; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iii. 49. Sikkim Himalaya, J. D. H. Teuasserim, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5123), 

 Heifer (Kew Distrib. 5122). 



62. E. elongrata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 49 ; characters of 

 IS. flava, but spikes often much longer, flowers smaller, often pedicelled, 

 petals oblanceolate. E. flava, Griff. Notul. iii. 301; Wall. Cat. 1973/3 (in 

 part). 



TENASSEEIM and AVA, Wallich, Griffith, Lobb, Parish. 



I doubt this being more than a variety of E. fluvu, but there may be several 

 species included under this and JE 1 . flava. 



63. E. andamanica, Hook. f. Ic. PI. ined.\ pseudobulbs as in 

 E. flava, leaves elliptic-lanceolate, lateral sepals f in. long acuminate 9- 

 nerved, petals oblanceolate 5-nerved, lip 1 in. long narrowly oblong from a 

 broad claw pubescent, side lobes narrow acute, axis thickened, midlobe as 

 broad but much shorter subquadrate 2-fid veined, column long. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



I advance this as a species with great hesitation, lwt the long column, nearly 

 half as long as the dorsal sepal-, and the corresponding long lip are very strong 

 characters (if constant). 



64. E. pulchella, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7407 ; in Bot. Beg. 1841, Misc. 

 52 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 51 ; pseudobulbs ellipsoid or clavate, leaves 

 2-5 subcoriaceous, flowers few in a stout leaf-opposed white-tomentose 



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