110 EPIDENDRE Ж. 
9. Bria Lindl. 
Epiphytes, usually pseudo-bulbous, the  pseudo-bulbs often elongated and stem-like. 
Flowers never large, rarely bright-coloured, often pubescent or tomentose, m racemes 
spikes or heads, or on 1-2-flowered pedicels. Sepals free, adnate to the long foot of 
the column, and with it forming a spur-like or saccate mentum. р sessile on the 
foot of the column and incumbent. Column short and straight, or long und somewhat 
curved. Anther imperfectly 4- or 8-celled. Рома 8, pyriform or broadly obovoid, 
attached in fours by their bases to a granular membrane, or the whole occasionally 
attached to a single viscus.—Species about 160, all tropical Asiatic. 
Flowers glabrous or pubescent, not woolly :— 
Flowers subglobose, in dense spikes . Au « « d. Е. comallarioides. 
Flowers few, їп IAS pikos ee ë 86 Ж. айың 
Flowers woolly externaliy . š ó. Е. flava. 
1. ERIA CONVALLARIOIDES Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 1975. 
Pseudo-bulbs tufted, flattened, 7:5 to 17 сш. long, covered when young with large 
loose sheaths, Leaves four to six, 10 to 17:5 cm. long, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
acute, subcoriaceous, many-nerved, not plicate. Spikes produced on the young growths 
and proceeding from the axils of the bracts and leaves, cylindric, decurved, the 
peduncles short and naked. Flowers many and densely crowded, subglobose, 7 mm. 
in diam., inodorous; foral bract equalling the sessile pubescent ovary, ovate-lanceo- 
late, concave, those at the base of the spike largest. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, 
the lateral pair very concave. Petals oblauceolate-oblong, spreading, nearly as long as 
the sepals, but much narrower. Zip obscurely 3-lobed, cuneate, concave, apex subacute, 
the disk without lamella. Column rather slender, Е а long much-curved foot. 
Pollinia clavate, attached to a large translucent viscus. Capsule oblong, obtuse, not 
winged. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 70; in Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 62, Misc. 58; in Journ. 
Linn. бос. Ii, 53; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ant vL 2/07 nor LL Dr. Ё 7) (91: 
King & Pantl іп Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. vili, 118, t. 161. — Oclomeria 
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Don. Prod. 31. 0. convallarioides Wall. MSS. Pinalia alba Herb. Ham. 
Dehra Dun, Mackinnon; Mussoorie range up to 4,000 feet; Garhwál, Duthie 
No. 25813; Lansdowne in Brit. Garhwál, Capt. Roberts; Kumaon at 4,000 feet, 
Strachey & Winterbottom No. 13; Gori Valley 2-3,000 feet, Duthie No. 5990. Flowers 
in August and September. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, the Khasia and 
Naga Hills; also іп Tenasserim. 
The flowers are white or straw-coloured, the lip being tinged with yeliow and the column ‘with 
red. Sir George King remarks that specimens growing at low elevations have often more slender 
pseudo-bulbs, narrower leaves and laxer flower-spikes than those from cooler places. 
2. ERIA ALBA Lindl. Gen, and Sp. Orch. 67, 
Pseudo-bulbs about З ош, long, crowded, ovoid, tapering at each end, not elongat- 
ing; marked (when fresh) with many distinct vertical lines and a few concentric scars. 
Leaves 3-5, overtopping the flowering spikes, 1:5 to 2 dm. long and 2 to 2:5 em. broad, 
cbianceolate, acute, strongly  nerved, rather rigid. Scape 4-6-flowered, pubescent. 
