BRIDES. ] ORCHIDACE&. 207" 



surface with short blunt vertical ridges. Column stout, half as long 

 as the lip, purple. Anther subquadrate, compressed. Jtostellum 

 broad. Pollinia ovoid, attached by a broad caudicle to the quadrate 

 gland. 



Dehra Dun, epiplytic chiefly on sal trees (Gamble, Mackinnon). Flowers- 

 during March and April. DISTRIB.: Tropical Himalayan Valley* 

 from Garhwal to Sikkim. It occurs also in Chota Nagpur. 



15. BRIDES, Lour. ; Fl. Brit. Ind, vi, 43. 



Epiphytes with leafy stems ; pseudobulbs none. Leaves lorate' 

 rarely terete. Flowers usually many and showy, in dense or lax 

 decurved racemes, sometimes solitary ; floral bracts minute. 

 Sepals broad, spreading ; lateral ones adnate to the base or foot of 

 the column. Petals like the sepals. Lip adnate to the column, 

 spurred ; side-lobes large or small or none ; midlobe longer than 

 the side -lobes or smaller and incurved between them. Column 

 short with a short or long foot. Anther 2-celled, beaked or not ; 

 pollinia 2, globose, silicate ; caudicle long or short ; gland various* 

 Species about 20, in E. Asia. 



Terminal lobe of lip Iarg3, hastate-ovate ; 



flowers pink with purple spots . . , 1. JR. multiflorum. 



Terminal lobe of lip small, linear or narrowly 

 oblong ; flowers white, spotted with lilac, 

 very fragrant . . . . . 2 ffi. odoratum. 



l.JE. multiflorum, Roxb. Cor. PL Hi, 63, t. 271 ; Fl. Ind. m, 

 475 ; F. B. I. vi, 44 ; K. & P. in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 

 212, t. 283 ; Duthie id. ix, part 2, 142 ; Prain Beng. PL 1020. 



Stem stout, 4-10 in. long. Leaves 6-8 in. long, narrowly oblong, con- 

 duplicate, recurved, slightly tapering to the oblique bifid apex, not 

 narrowed to the base, often tinged with red. Racemes longer than 

 the leave?, simple, axillary, densely many^flowered ; peduncle long,, 

 clothed with short distant sheaths. Flowers }-l in. across, deep- 

 pink and with darker spots. Sepals and petals about equal, oblong, 

 blunt. Lip twice as long as the sepals, triangular, adnate to the 

 base of the column, acute or obtuse at the apex, margins erose ; 

 basal portion thick and with a retrorse tooth or callus across the 

 mcuth of the short rectangularly bert spur. Column with a short 

 foot, its margins thickened and slightly winged near the base. 



