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higher up. Racemes 3-5 in. long, oblong, rather densely flowered 

 Flowers pale yellowiflh-green tinged with purplish -brown, 1 in. in 

 diam.; floral bracts shorter than the stalked ovary, membranous, 

 lance- .la-' linear-oblong, acute, keeled, their edges reflexed 



and undulate ; lateral pair irserted on the foot of the column, wider 

 than the dor.-al one and free from it at their bases. Petals narrowly 

 elliptic, .-ubacute, shorter and wider than the sepals. Lip adnatr 

 to the foot of the column, longer than the sepals, slightly saccate 

 at the base, 3-lobed ; side-lobes shallow, obu. rt-ddish-purple, 



branching within the margin ; terminal lobe tinged with yellow, 

 transversely oblong, emarginate ; disk w ith two short smooth ridges- 

 half as long as the side-lobes and ending in a free triangular tooth, 

 in front of which rise five unequal carunculate ridges extending to 

 the terminal lobe. Anther apiculate in front. Pdlinia broadly 

 triangular, attached by a broad caudicle to a thin angular gland. 



Sub-Himalayan tract in Pilibhit and in the Kheri district of N. Oudh 

 (Duthie). Flowers in March and April. DISTBIB. : N. Bengal, Sikkim, 

 in, Khasia Hills, Manipur and Upper Burma. 



8. E. flava, Hook. /. in F. B. I. vi, 7 ; Prain. Beng. PI. 1016 ; 

 Dnthie in Ami. R. Bot. Card. Calc. ix, part 2,128, t. 110. Cyrtopera 

 tfava, Lindl. ; Royle 111 370, t. 8$, fiy. 1. 



A tall robust herb with a tuberous rhizome. Leaves about three 

 forming when young a short pseudostem by their sheathing base 

 appearing later than the flowers, attaining 4 ft. in length and about 4 

 in. in width when fuUy developed. Flowering stem stout, unbranch- 

 ed, 2-5 ft. high, clothed at the base with a few distant closo-fitting 

 sheaths and rising from a tuber beside the leaf- bearing pseudostem. 

 Racw>r 1-2 ft. long, bracts much shorter than the ovary, \- in. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers many, large, drooping, 

 lemon-yellow. Sepals 1-1 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 Petals rather shorter thar the sepals and much broader, obtuse or 

 emarginate, many-nerved. Lip equalling the sepals in length, 3- 

 lobed ; side-lobes large, rounded or oblong, whitish towards the apex, 

 and spotted v. ith purple at their yellow bases ; midlobe oblong,. 

 ydlow, the disk with two small pyriform basal ealH and three crenate 

 'lamellae ; spur a short blunt sac. Column about f ill. long, produced 

 at the base into a short foot. Anther emarginate at the apex and 

 v.ith a long anterior process. Pollinia obtusely angled, attached 

 -tout caudicle to a broad shallow gland. 



Dehra Dun (Royle, Mackinnon); sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand 

 and in the Kheri district of N. Oudh (Duthie). Flowers in June 

 and July. DISTRIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal and 



