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ovary. Sepals sub-equal in length, spreading; the dorsal elliptic-oblòng, sub-acute; the 
lateral pair with broad bases attached to the sides of the column. : Petals like the 
dorsal sepals, but shorter. Lip oblong, 3-lobed; the side lobes large, rounded; the 
terminal lobe small, oblong, ‘revolute, with undulate edges and six or seven crenate 
ridges on its upper surface; the disc between the side lobes with two broad dilated 
crenulate ridges. Column short, stout, longer than its tapering foot. Anther much 
vaulted, 2-celled. Pollinia unequal, the upper four being about half as large as the lower 
four, broad, compressed, united in fours by granular vertical membranes. Reichb. fil. in 
Gard. Chron, 1876, I, 231. ria suavis, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. бос. III, 52. Fria 
cylindropoda, Griff. Notul. ІП, 299. Trichosma suavis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 
21; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 827.  Celogyne coronaria, Lindl, in Bot. Reg., 1841, 
Misc., 83, ; 
Sikkim, at elevations of 5,000 to 6,000 feet; many collectors; Pantling, No. 27; 
in flower during November and December, Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew Distrib, No. 5117) 
and muny other collectors. 
The flowers of the Sikkim plant are in the main white, the lip being flushed with 
purple externally and having some dark streaks of purple on the side lobes; the terminal 
lobe, however, is yellow. In the Khasia Hills the flowers are said to be more purple 
than white, They are always very sweetly scented. This plant was first (1841) referred 
by Lindley to Coelogyne, then (1842) to Yrichosma (a genus which he formed for its 
reception); but was finally (1859) removed by him to Zria, of which genus he. formed 
for it the section Zrichosma, Griffith also regarded the plant as an Eris and named it 
E. cylindropods. There is therefore good authority in favour of treating this plant as 
an Aria rather than as the solitary member of a distinct genus. When Lindley changed 
the generic name from (Сауле to Trichosma he ought to have kept up the specific name 
coronaria. In consequence of his not having done so, the authorship of the species as 
an Aria falls to Reichenbach filius, : 
Рілте 172.—Eria coronaria, Reichb. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 side view of a flower 
from which the sepals and petals have been removed, 2 lip, 3 column with its foot and anther in 
situ, 4 lower surface of anther, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
15, Era stricta, Lindl. Coll, Bot. t. 41 B; in Journ, Linn. Soc. III, 52. 
Pseudo-bulbs crowded, without a rhizome, often cohering, cylindric, 3*5 to 5 in. long 
and about 8 in. in diam., with loose fibrous sheaths at the base, and at the apex two 
oblong elliptic sub-coriaceous sessile leaves tapering to each end, 2:5 to 4 in. long and % 
to ‘9 in. broad. Spike solitary, erect, rising from between the leaves and exceeding 
them in length, the peduncle naked, the raceme many-flowered. Flowers “1 to “15 in. 
long, secund, crowded; the floral bract ovate, acute, glabrous, much shorter than the 
woolly ovary. Sepals densely woolly outside, sub-equal, ovate. Petals ovate-rotund, 
blunt, ав long as the sepals, Lip sub-orbicular, concave, obscurely 3-lobed; the apical 
lobe very short, broad, truncate; the side lobes shallow, rounded, the disc between 
them with a smooth depressed callus; the base gibbous and nectar-secreting, divided 
into two chambers by а short rib continued upwards on the foot of the column. 
Column short, broad, the foot short; Anther without true cells, but with depressions for 
the elliptic pollinia, Pollinia in two masses of four each, each mass attached separately 
to the quadrate gland by & granular elastic thread. Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. VI, 271; 
