126 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, 
Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. III, 52; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind V, 791. E. secundiflora, Griff, 
Notul. Ш, 302; Ie. Pl Asiat., t 301. Mycaranthes stricta, Lindl. in Wall. Саб, 1970; 
Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 63; Wight Іс. 1733. Octomeria secunda, Wall. MSS. 
Sikkim, common at elevations of 1,000 to 4,000 feet; in flower from November to 
February; Pantling, No. 65. Nepal; Wallich. Assam; in the Naga and Khasia Hills. 
The flowers. are white flushed with pink, the column being yellow and the sides 
of the lip inside being streaked with the same tint. | 
This is quite an anomalous species of Eria, the attachment of the pollinia by 
elastic threads to a gland being suggestive of Vandeae, to which tribe it ougit probably 
to be removed to form the type of a new genus allied to Cryptochilus. 
Puare 173.—Eria stricta, Lindl. A plant; of natural візе. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 part of ovary, column 
and lip, 3 lip, 4 column showing the anther in situ and stigma, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
16, Enza PANICULATA, Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As, Rar. I, 32, t. 36. 
Stems coespitose, pendulous, one to two feet long and about as thick as a gooso-quill. 
Leaves numerous, fleshy, linear, acuminate, sessile, “2 to “5 in. broad. Racemes in terminal 
fascicles of two or three, about as long as the leaves, with long lanceolate bracts at their 
bases, woolly, many-flowered. Flowers “495 to “8 in. across; floral bract lanceolate, 
acuminate, curved, glabrous, nearly as long as the pubescent stalked ovary. Dorsal sepal 
ovate ; the lateral pair triangular, sub-faleate, spreading, all softly and sparsely pubescent 
outside. Petals about as long as the. dorsal sepal, elliptic-obovate, the edges slightly 
егоѕе.. Lip in general outline sub-orbicular, 3-lobed, the base with a large mealy callus 
in front of the column; lateral lobes oblong, sub-faleate, their apices sub-acute and 
directed forwards; apical lobe broad, coarsely erose, much decurved, bearing on its upper 
surface a callus like that at the base but larger. Column stout, with a narrow straight 
foot about as long as itself. Anther imperfectly 8-eelled, much shrunken when the flowers 
expand and only partly covering the eight clavate pollinia. Pollinia attached to a 
broad viscid mass, Wall. Cat., 1971; Lindl., Gen, and Spec. Orch., 65; Bot. Reg. 
XXVIII (1842), Mise. 38; in Journ. Linn. Soc. ІП, 55; Reichb. fil. in Walp. Ann. 
VI, 274; Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 789. | 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 2,000 to 4,000 feet; Hooker, Thomson and others, 
Pantling, No. 103; in flower from January to April Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew 
Distrib. No. 5111), Prain, Simons, Sylhet; Wallich. Naga Hills; Prain. 
The sepals ате of a pale yellowish-green colour; the petals, lip and column are 
pale lavender with brownish blotches. The callus on the lip is white and has a mealy 
appearance. In Sikkim the flowers are in racemes which arise in fascicles, Wallich’s 
figure of the Nepal plant shows them as forming a short panicle, | 
Рілтв 174.-—Eria paniculata, Lindl. A plant; of natural size. Fig. la flower, front view, 2 floral 
bract, stalked ovary, column with its foot, anther d» situ and lip, side view, З Ep, 4 summit of colunn 
with the anther carled up and showing the pollinia in situ, and stigma, 5 pollinia; all enlarged. 
. I7. Ema FLAYA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 1973, (in pari); Gen. and 
oe : Spec. Orch. 65. 
: Rhizome stout, clothed with imbricating tubular. sheaths. Pseudo-bulbs vertically 
furrowed,. sheathed at the base, much compressed, 3 to 4 in. long and 1'25 in, in diam. 
