120 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
Column with a short broad puberulous foot. РоЙітіа clavate, united in two sets to a small 
globose viscus. Hook, fil. Ic. Plantar., t. 1847; Fl. Br. Ind. V, 794, Е, alba, Lindl, in 
Journ. Linn, Soc. III, 53, var. b. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 5,000 to 7,000 feet; Griffith (Kew Distrib, No. 5115), 
Gamble, Gammie and others, rather common; Pantling, No. 371; in flower during July 
and August, 
The sepals and petals are pure white. The disc of the lip is also white, but its 
ridges and the anterior lobe are yellowish-white; the side lobes are red. 
Рглте 164.— Ería graminifolia, Lindl. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, seen 
from the side, 3 lip, 4 column and its foot, the anther i» situ, 5 lower surface of anther, 6 pollinia; 
all enlarged, 
7, Emi virtata, Lindl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. ІП, 51. 
. Rhizome stout; pseudo-bulbs about one inch apart, cylindric, tapering upward, 2 to 4 
in. long and about *5 to ‘65 in, in diam. near the rhizome, bearing several large unequal 
sheathing bracts especially near the base. Leaves two, membranous, many-nerved, elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute, tapering to the base, 6 to 8 in. long and 1:5 to 2 in. broad. _Ёасете | 
from. the summit of the pseudo-bulb outside the leaves, decurved, many-flowered, about 
half as long as the leaves; its peduncle about 1 in. long, sheathed at the base. Flowers 
‘75 in. long; the floral bract reduced to ‘a thickened ring. Dorsal sepal oblong, sub- 
acute;. the lateral pair triangular-oblong, faleate, spreading, forming with the column 
а wide short mentum.. Petals narrowly oblong, slightly faleate, obtuse. Lip oblong, 
without lobes, decurved and crenulate in its terminal third, the apex broad; the upper 
surface. with five crenulate ridges from base to apex. (oui slender, shorter than its 
purple foot. Rostellum elongate, cylindric, coloured red.. Polliniz ovoid, attached in fours 
at their backs by a granular membrane. Reichb. fil. in Gard. Chron., 1882, I, 330; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 794. 
| Sikkim, at elevations of 5,000 to 60,000 feet; in flower during March and April; 
Pantling No. 62, Munipur; Watt, No. 7451. 
_ The flowers, which are very fragrant, are pale g green, the sepals and petals being 
striped and the lip as well as its lamellz being spotted and striped with purplish-brown. 
РглтЕ 165.— Eria vittata, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 the abortive floral 
bract, ovary, column and its foot, anther and lip, seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 column and foot showing 
the pollinia їз sifu, 5 clinandrium, rostellum and stigma, 6 anther, 7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
8, Ева BRACTisCENS, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 18, 1844, t. 49. 
Pseudo-bulbs narrowly cylindric, tapering towards the apex, slightly curved, somewhat 
. wrinkled at flowering time, 2 to 4 in. long and °7 in. in diam. Leaves three to six (rarely 
only two), sub-coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, tapering to the base, 5 or 6 in. long 
and 1°25 to 1:75 in. broad. Racemes several, axillary, lax, their peduncles sheathed 
at the base. Flowers '6 in. long and °75 in. across, quite glabrous; floral bract elliptic- 
ovate, reflexed, the margins sometimes involute, shorter than the long-stalked ovary. 
Sepals spreading, sub-acute; the dorsal narrowly elliptic, the lateral pair broader, Petals 
narrowly oblong, shorter than the sepals, their apices blunt and revolute. Lip oblong, 
expanded towards the apex, 3-lobed; the lateral lobes erect, large, rounded; the terminal 
lobe — — deflexed at the apex; the upper surface with three lamellae: running 
