128 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
The outer surfaces of the sepals and petals are covered with white wool; the inner 
surfaces which are smooth are of different shades of golden brown, the lip is dark brown, 
the edges being paler; the column is green, and the foot tinged with orange. 
Pzare 176.— Eria pannea, Lindl, A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 part of ovary, eolumn 
and its foot, anther i» situ and lip, 3 lip, 4 front view of column and its lip and the anther, 9 anther 
seen from below, 6 polliuia; ай enlarged. 
19. Ева pasrPHrLLA, Par. and Reichb. fil in Trans. Linn. Soc, XXX, 147, 
Stems creeping on trees, much branched, about 1 in. thick, the older with long brown 
hispid pubescence, the younger branches with shorter paler hairs, Leaves small, fleshy, 
sessile, elliptic-ovate or obovate, covered with short whitish wool mixed with long hispid 
hairs, length :35 to *7 in, breadth from °15 to °35 in. Flowers *& or °5 in. long, solitary, 
on short pubescent sheathed peduncles; floral bract lanceolate, shorter than the stalked 
ovary. Sepals pubescent externally, unequal; the dorsal small, erect, elliptic; the lateral 
pair large, broadly triangular, concave. Petals oblong, blunt. Lip large, cuneately 
oblong, ciliolate, the base narrowed, the side lobes very shallow; the terminal half 
deflexed its apex broad, slightly emarginate and minutely erose. Mentum broad. Column 
short, the foot long, slightly curved. Anther conical, its lip broad and truncate, 
Pollinia sub-cuneiform. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. V, 808. 
: Sikkim, in tropical valleys up to elevations of 3,000 feet; in flower during Мау 
and June; Pantling, No. 90; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) Хо. 5131. Khasia Hills, alt. 
1,000 to 2,000 feet; Hooker and Thomson. Pegu; Kurz, Helfer. 
The flowers are green slightly flushed with yellow, and at the base of the lip 
there is a large patch of brownish-purple. 
Prats 177.— Eria dasyphylla, Par. and Reichb, fil. Piece of a young stem of a plant with leaves 
and flowers; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 scape and bracts, ovary, column with its foot, anther 
per oe seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 column with its foot, anther in situ, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; aH 
enlarged, 
20. Ента Rurut, Reichb. fil. in Hamb. Gartenzeit XIX, 13, - 
| Stem cylindric, 10 to 12 in. long, leafy, pendulous, rufous-hispid. Leaves numerous 
coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, sparsoly rusty-pubescent, 9:5 to 4 im. long 
and about "5 in. broad, often with superficial concretions when dry. Racemes leaf-opposed 
about “75 in. long, bearing three to six flowers about °3 in. in length; floral bract liige; 
cordate, acute, hispid, exceeding the sessile ovary. Sepals sub-equal, ovate-lanceolate site 
acute, spreading, hispid externally. Petals narrower than the sepals, spreading own 
hispid. Lip spathulate, not lobed, the edges slightly upturned, the posterior half  Seabrid 
the anterior half thickened, smooth except for a small elongate callus near the "n 
Column rather long, narrowed towards the short sigmoidly curved foot. Anther with 
lobulate lip. Pollinia oblong, cohering by two granular membranes, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 
Ind. ү, 808. | E. annulata, Lindl. (not of Blume) in Journ. Linn. Soc. IL 57. 
х Sikkim, in tropical valleys up to elevations of 2,500 feet; in flower during Мау? 
Pantling, No. 287. Khasia Hills, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, G. Mann? Tenasserim; 
Helfer. Cachar; Keenan. — o 
е flowers aro whitish flushed with pink; the lip being blotched with red at the 
and the anther deep crimson. The bract and ovary are green, Е 
