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РгАТЕ 162.—Eria pumila, Lindl. А plant; of natural size, Fig. 1 flower, 2 floral bract, column 
and its foot, anther i» situ and lip, 3 lip, 4 column, the pollinia i» sits being shown by the dehiscence 
of the anther, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; aJ enlarged. 
.9. ЕвтА BAMBUSIFOLIA, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ІП, 61. 
Stem 2 to З feet long and about *35 in. thick, enveloped in large blunt tubular sheaths. 
Leaves numerous, thickly membranous, many-nerved, narrowly elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 
tapering slightly to the base, 4 to 8 in. long and 1 to 1:75 in. broad. Racemes about as 
long as the leaves, few-flowered, the rachises rusty-pubescent; the peduncles with scattered 
broad short broadly ovoid pubescent bracts. Flowers “5 or “б in. long, distant; floral 
brací broad, sub-orbicular, apiculate, much shorter than tho long-stalked rusty-pubescent 
ovary. Sepals rusty-pubescent externally, 5-nerved, spreading; the dorsal broadly elliptic, 
blunt; the lateral pair similar but faleate. Petals narrower than the sepals, elliptic-oblong, 
3-nerved, blunt, spreading. Zip ovate-oblong, deflexed from below the middle, obtuse, with 
small side lobes; the upper surface with three bold pubescent ridges from base to apex 
and two short additional ones near the apex. Mentum short. Column long, curved ; the foot 
straight, shorter than the column. Ро тіс obovoid-elliptie, compressed, attached to a 
short granular membrane. Capsules cylindric, slender, 1 to 1'5 in. long. Hook. fil. Fl. 
br, Ind. V, 805. 
Sikkim, at Rissisoom, altitude 6,000 feet; in flower from October to December; 
Pantling, No. 355. Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew Distrib 5112), Simons, Mann. On 
Mohendragiri, in the Ganjam Hill Tracts, altitude 4,500 feet; Gamble. 
The flowers are pale brown with darker lines; the three ridges on the lip being pale 
green and the column yellow behind and pink in front. The unexpected discovery of 
specimens of this on the hill ranges of the eastern coast of Peninsular India, shows that it 
must not as heretofore be regarded as a species peculiar to the Eastern Himalaya and 
Khasia Hills, and is an illustration of the scantiness of our knowledge of the minuter 
details of the distribution of Indian Orchids. Æ. crassicaulis, Hook, fil, from the Khasia 
range, is а close ally of this, but the flowers have a different lip. | 
Puare 163.—Eria bambusifolia, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. F ig. 1 а flower, front view, 
2. floral bract, stalked ovary, column, foot, anther and lip, side view, 3 lip, 4 front view of column and 
its foot with the anther dehisciug, 5 under surface of anther, 6 pollinia; al? enlarged. 
6. ERIA GRAMINIFOLIA, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 54. 
Pseudo-bulbs narrowly cylindric, 4 to б in. long, coherent and rooting below, and bearing 
when young several long tubular sheaths. Leaves two to six, thickly membranous, many- 
nerved, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed towards the base; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 
.35 to "75 in. Racemes solitary or several produced from among the young leaves, somewhat 
shorter than the leaves, erect, the rachis glandular-pubescent, the peduncle short. Flowers 
15 to 20, about “5 in. across; floral bract ovate, acuminate, shorter than the glandular- 
pubescent ovary. Sepals spreading, elliptic-lanceolate, the lateral pair broader than the 
dorsal, sub-faleate. Petals oblong, sub-acute, sub-faleate, about. as long as the sepals. Lip 
fleshy, shorter than the petals, broadly oblong in general ontline, 3-lobed, the side lobes 
oblong, blunt, erect, incurved; the terminal lobe transversely oblong, its apex emarginate 
and with a large oblong callus in the middle; the dise with three parallel stout ridges, 
the middle one of which ends in the apical callus and the side ones in two smaller calli, 
