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eubequal in length, nearly ^ in. long, narrowly oblong or oblanceo- 

 late, acuminate or abruptly mucronate, white with pink veins and 

 tinged with pale-green at the apex. Lip including spur a little longer 

 than the sepals and petals ; side-lobes deep-purple, erect, rounded, 

 entire ; between the side-lobes are three prominent whitish lamellae ; 

 midlobe orbicular, yellow spotted with purple, and with a coarsely 

 fimbriate disk, the margin undulate and irregularly erose. Spur 

 cylindric, curved, obtuse, white, grooved in front. Column about 

 half as long as the lip, with a very slightly produced foot. 

 Pollinia oval, attached by a short stout caudicle to a shallow crescent- 

 shaped gland. 



ODehra Dun (Mackinnon)"; N. Oudh, in the Kheri district (Duthie). 

 Flowers during April. DISTEIB. : Outer ranges of the W. Himalaya 

 up to 5,000 ft. from Garhwal westwards to Hazara and the Chitral 

 district, often in pine forests. This species is nearly related to E. 

 campestris, differing chiefly by its shorter scapes, larger flowers and 

 more congested racemes. The shape of the lip and the general colour- 

 ing of the flowers are also very different. E. campestris is essentially 

 a species of the plains, whereas E. Hormusjii extends up to the tem- 

 perate region of the W. Himalaya where the climatic conditions are 

 more favourable for leaf development. 



5. E. campestris, Wall. Cat. 7367 ; Eoyle 111. 366 ; F. B. I. vi, 

 4 ; K. & P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 178, t. 41 ; Duthie id. 

 ix, part 2, 126 ; Prain Beng. PL 1016. E. ramentacea and E. 

 rupestris, Lindl. E. henrileuca, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Hi 

 (1859), 25. Limodorum ramentaceum, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 467. 

 Bletia Dabia, Don Prod. 30. Vern. Sang-misri (Beng). 



{Tubers irregularly oblong, often lobed. Leaves two, rising from the 

 apex of a slender shea-thing pseudostem, developing long after the 

 plant has flowered, 10-16 in. long, linear, acuminate, plicate. Scape 

 6-12 in. long, sheathed at intervals by loose membranous bracts ; 

 raceme laxly many-fid. Flowers drooping, subsecund, yellowish 

 or green with pink or purple markings, about 1 in. across ; floral 

 bracts, membranous, linear or lanceolate, acuminate, usually longer 

 than the slenderly stalked ovary. Sepals slightly attached to the 

 base of the lip, linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 5-7-nerved. 

 Petals spreading, narrower than the sepals, oblanceolate. 3-5-nerved. 

 Lip as long as the sepals, cuneate-obovate or oblong; side-lobes 

 short, rounded or subacute, incurved round the column ; midlobe 

 orbicular quadrate or oblong, crenulate, usually purple ; basal portion 

 of disk with three median lamellae ending in a fimbriate or tubercled 

 ipatch on the terminal lobe. Spur short, conical subclavate or 



