118 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
3. ERIA coNvaLLaRIOIDES, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 1975. 
Pseudo-tulbs tufted, flattened, З to 7 in. long, covered when young with large loose 
` sheathing bracts "75 to 1:95 in. wide. Leaves four to six, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
acute, subcoriaceous, many-nerved but not plicate, 4 to 7 in. long, and 1:25 to l'6 in. 
broad. Spikes cylindric, produced on the young growths and proceeding from the axils 
of the bracts and leaves, decurved; their peduncles short, naked. Flowers sub-globose, 
about "25 in. in diam., numerous, densely crowded; floral bract ovate-lanceolate, concave, 
equalling the sessile pubescent ovary, the dracts at the base of the spike largest. Sepals 
broadly ovate, obtuse, the lateral pair very concave. Petals oblanceolate-oblong, spreading, 
nearly as long as the sepals but much narrower. Jip cuneate, obscurely 3-lobed, concave, 
the apex sub-acute, the disc without lamella. Column rather slender, with a long much- 
curved foot. РоПініа clavate, attached to a large translucent sub-globular viscus. Capsule 
oblong, obtuse, not winged. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 70; in Bot. Reg., 1841, 
t. 62, Misc. 58; in Journ. Linn. бос. IIT, 53; Reichb. fil in Walp. Ann. VI, 276; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br, Ind. V, 791. Octomeria spicata, Don Prod. 31. 0. conrallarioides, Wall. 
MSS. Pinalia alba, Herb. Ham. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 2,000 to 6,000 feet, eommon, Pantling, No. 41; in flower 
during July and August. Gharwal, Kumaon, Nepal, Khasia and Naga Hills, also in 
Tenasserim. 
The flowers are white or of a pale straw-colour, the column being tinged with red 
and the lip with yellow. They are quite inodorous. Specimens grown at low eleva- 
tions have often more slender pseudo-bulbs and narrower leaves than those from cooler 
places, the spikes also are longer and not so densely flowered. 
Рглте 161—Eria convallarioides, Lindl. А plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 ovary, 
column with its foot, anther in situ and lip, 3 lip, 4 column showing the pollinia from which the 
anther has been drawn back, © anther from below, 6 pollinia ; ай enlarged. 
4. Era PUMILA, Lindl in Wall. Cat., 1972; Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 68. 
Rhizome stout, densely -covered with fibrous sheaths,  Pseudo-bulbs rather crowded, 
sub-cylindric or slightly clavate, compressed, 3 to 4 in, long and about ‘5 in. thick when 
fresh. Leaves three or four, linear-lanceolate, tapering to each end, 2:5 to 3:5 in. long and 
‘3 to 5 in. broad. Flowers minnte, in dense capitula *35 to “5 in. in diam, and borne on 
short axillary peduncles; foral bract oblong, sub-acute, glabrous, as long as the tomentose 
ovary. Sepals broadly oblong, obtuse. Petals much narrower, but of the same length, 
blunt, spreading. Lip broadly oblong, 3-lobed, with two calli near the base which are 
produced into faint ridges on the disc; the lateral lobes short, tooth-like, acute, erect; 
the anterior lobe broad, hispid-pubescent, deeply bilobulate at the apex, the lobules 
separated by a wide sinus. Column rather long, the foot short, flat, pubescent. Pollinia 
stoutly clavate, attached to a small depressed-globular viscus. Stigma with 2 minute 
processes on its lower margin. Lindl. in Bot, Reg., 1838, Mise. 79; Walp. Ann. VI, 
218; Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. V, 791. 
fükin, in tropical valleys, in flower during August?  Pantling No. 291; Khasia 
Hills; Wallich. Tenasserim, near Moulmein ; Parish. 
The flowers are white flushed with Ce the upper part of the column and the 
lateral lobes of the lip being red. 
