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Prate 178.— Eria rufinula, Reichb. fil.: А plant; of natural sis. Fig. 1 a flower, front view, 2 
floral bract, ovary, column, foot, anther and lip, З lip, 4 anther, 6 pollinia ; all enlarged, 
21, Ев CARINATA, Gibs. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 365. 
Rhizome very short, woody, covered with dark scarious sheaths.  Pseudo-bulbs oblong- 
ovoid, furrowed when mature, 2 to 3 in. long and about 1 in. in diam. Leaf thickly 
coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute, tapering at the base into the long channelled petiole; 
length of blade 7 to 12 in., of petiole 1:5 to 3:5 in., breadth of blade 1°5 to 2 in. 
Inflorescence borne on an undeveloped pseudo-bulb, 6 to 12 in. long;' the peduncle 
enveloped in the conduplicate young leaf, sheathed by numerous large equitant bracts 
1 to 3 in. long. Raceme about З in. long, bearing three drooping polished flowers 1 in. 
long; floral bract narrowly lanceolate, 1 to 15 in. long and longer than the three- 
winged stalked ovary. Sepals lanceolate, shortly keeled, slightly spreading, the dorsal 
rather shorter; the lateral pair gibbous at the base, their keels denticulate near the 
apex. Petals oblong-rhomboid, 9-nerved. Lip oblong, decurved from the middle, the 
side lobes narrow; the terminal lobe oblong, apiculate, much recurved, the upper surface 
with a ridge along the middle from base to apex and two shorter lines between the 
side lobes. Mentum short, rounded. Column much curved, its foot shorter than itself 
but broader. Anther with a thickened crest and a bilobed lip. Pollinia elliptic, attached 
to a broad granular membrane. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 50; Hook. fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. V, 808. E. rosea, Wall. Cat. 7409 (not of Lindi.); Reichb. fil. in Walp. 
Ann. VI, 269 (in part) E. Гоғай, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1886, П, 584.  Xiphosium 
acuminatum, Griff. Notul. ІП, 332; Itin. Notes II, 78, No. 1153; Ic. Plant. Asiat., 
i. 316. 
Sikkim, at elevations of 500 to 3,000 feet; Elwes and others; Pantling, No. 1; 
in flower from November to January. Nepal; Wallich. Khasia Hills; Griffith (Kew 
‘Distrib. 5121), Mann, Rita. 
The sepals are yellowish-green, the petals yellowish, the lip a pale faded purple, 
and the column pale yellow and white. The flowers smell of paregoric. 
PrarE 179.—Eria carinata, Gibs. A plant; of natural sise. Fig. 1 the petals, 2 part of ovary, 
column and its foot, anther in situ and lip seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 column and its foot and 
anther, 5 outside of anther; 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
20. Tylostylis, Blume. 
Stem thick, fleshy, furrowed, constricted and leaf-bearing at the nodes, Leaves 
several, coriaceous, sessile. Flowers small, in extra-axillary or axillary racemes, Sepals 
oblong-elliptic, pubescent, spreading. Petals smaller than the sepals. Lip articulated 
to the very short foot of the column, mobile, broad, not lobed, much deflexed, 
pubescent. Column very long, much curved forwards and downwards, so that its apex 
is brought opposite the middle of the lip, bearing a large callus at its base and on 
the very short foot.  Pollinia 8, sub-equal, sub-orbicular, compressed, attached to four 
elongated membranes. Distrib. Two species, one Indian and the other Malayan. 
This genus was first published (1825) by Blume in his Dijdragen (p. 340, t. 74) as Callostylis. 
Put, on the ground that the name is Graco-Latin, he changed it (1825) in his Flora Javæ, praef. 
VI, to Tylostylis. The genus contains two species, the original Malayan one of Blume (T. rigida) 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garn., CALCUTTA, Vor. ҮШ. 
