ERIA. ] ORCHID ACEM. 193 



T. venosa, Rolfe in Orch. Rev. (1905)206 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 

 92. Phaius albus, Lindl. in Well. PL As. Ear. ii (1831), 85 

 4. 198 ; Bot, Reg. (1838), t. 33 (not of Lindl.); Bot. Mag. t. 3991 1 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. xv, 125 ; F. B. I. v, 818 in part ; K. & P. in Ann. 

 J2. Bot. Gard. Cede, viii, 110, t. 153 ; Duthie id. ix pt. 2, 109 ; Prain 

 Beng'. PL 1014. Limodorum bracteatum, Eoxb. Ft. Ind., Hi,, 466. 



JPseudobulbs none. Stems stout, erect, tufted, 1-3 ft. long, bearing 

 many tubular 8heaths at the base. Leaves many, sessile, 1J-3 ft. 

 long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 membranous, glaucous beneath, usually plicate. Racemes 4-6-flcU 

 4-6 in. long, shortly peduncled and with a single elongated sheath. 

 Flowers 2-2^ in. long ; bracts equalling or exceeding the long-stalked 

 ovary, oblong, cymbiform, acute, pale-coloured. Lip broadly 

 oblong-panduriform when spread out; lower half convolute into a 

 tube ; upper portion cuoullate, forming a rounded shell-like mouth 

 slightly acuminate, the margins undulate and unequally dentate; 

 upper surface with 7-9 crested ridges. Spur horizontal, slightly 

 bifid. Column with a short foot, somewhat winged at the apex. 

 Pollinia unequal, elongate. Capsule 1J in. long, narrowly elliptic. 



;Dehra Dun (Gamble, Mackinnon), sometimes found as an epiphyte on 

 sal trees. Flowers in June. DISTRIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges 

 of Garhwal and Kumaon, up to about 4,000 ft. It extends eastwards 

 to Sikkim, Assam, the Khasia Hills and Burma, and occurs a^o in 

 Chota Nagpur. A variety with shorter and more congested racemes 

 is mentioned by Cooke as having been found by Dalzell on the 

 Matheran Hill in Konkan. 



9. ERIA, Lindl. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 785. 



Epiphytic and usually pseudobulbous. Pseuddbulbs often 

 elongated and stem-like. Flowers never large, rarely showy, 

 arranged in racemes spikes or heads or on 1-2-flowered pedicels, 

 -often pubescent or tomentose. Sepals free from each other, adnate 

 to the long foot of the column and with it usually forming a spur- 

 like or saccate mentum. Petals similar to the sepals. Lip sessile 

 on the foot of the column and incumbent. Column short and 

 .straight or long and somewhat curved, prolonged below as a foot. 

 .Anther accumbent, imperfectly 4-celled or 8-celled; pollinia 8, 

 ,pyriform or broadly obovoid, waxy, attached in fours by their 



