ERIA. 111 
Flowers вхуев!-всөпбей; floral bract lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the pubescent 
ovary. Sepals 10-12 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, glabrescent. Petals a little 
shorter than the dorsal sepal. narrowly lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved. Jip oblong, with a 
broad sharply curved claw; side lobes pointing forwards, rounded, tinged with reddish- 
purple; midlobe orbicular, apiculate, yellow; disk with usually two thick obtuse ridges 
between the side lobes and a central one extending along the rough midlobe, Column 
short, about 2 mm. іп length. Mentum rounded, somewhat curved and spur-like. Pollinia 
clavate, attached to a single small viscus. Capsul: about 2 cm. long, linear-oblong and 
tapering to the base. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 53, var. В; Royle Ill. Him. Bot. 
364; Hook. f. Іс. Pl. t. 1815; Fl, Br. Ind. v, 795. Осіотеніа alba Wall. MSS. 
Plentiful along the outer ranges of Garhwál and Kumaon at elevations between 
3,000 and 7,000 feet; Edgeworth, Royle, Strachey & Winterbottom, &c.; found 
abundantly on oak trees in the neighbourhood of Mussoorie; also on the Punjab 
Himalaya in Chamba, Duthie No. 23345. Flowers during June and July. 
This species is closely allied to E. excavata Lindl., with which it has often been confounded. The 
pseudo-bulbs of the former are stouter and more distinctly marked with vertical lines; the lip is 
contracted at the base, so that the side lobes are not basal, and the mentum is mere prolonged. 
The sepals and petals are white with a tinge of red externally towards their bases; the side lobes of 
the lip are tipped with a broad band of reddish-purple, and the upper surface of the terminal lobe 
is yellow spotted with red. 
РгАТЕ 102. Ема alba Zindi.—A. plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, side view of flower; 
2, ditto with sepals and petals removed; 3, lip spread out; 4, front view of column; 
5, pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
3. ERIA FLAVA Lindl. in Wall. Cat, 1973 (in part). 
Rhizome stout, clothed with imbricating tubular sheaths. Pseudo-bulbs vertically 
furrowed, sheathed at the base, much compressed, 7:8 to 10 cm. long and 3 cm. in 
diam. Leaves three to five, more or less narrowly oblong, acuminate, tapering to the 
base, 1:5 to 2:3 dm, long and 2 to 3 em. broad. Raceme from the base of the pseudo- 
bulb, about as long as the leaves, covered with dense pale soft tomentum. and with 
several sheaths at the base. Flowers distant, yellow, 1*5 cm, long; floral bract lanceolate, 
much shorter than the tomentose, stalked ovary, shrivelled when the flowers open. 
Sepals tomentose outside, the dorsal one small and lanceolate; the lateral pair much 
larger, triangular, spreading. Petals smaller than the dorsal sepal, lying parallel over 
the column, narrowly oblong, tapering to the base and the apex. Lip oblong, 3-lobed; 
side lobes narrow, with truncate apices, puberulous and with two long tapering ridges at 
their junction with the disk; terminal lobe oblong, acute, deflexed, slightly 2-ridged, 
glabrous. Column erect, its foot at right angles to and longer than its body. Lip of 
aníher with a small quadrate appendage. РоПіта small, compressed, attached to two 
granular membranes. Capsule 3:9 to 4 cm, long, narrowly cylindric. Lindl. Gen. and 
Sp. Orch. 65; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 49 (excl. var. B.); Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
v. 801; King & Pantl. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 126, t. 175. Е. anceps 
Reichb. f. in llamp. Gartenzeit. xix, 10. Dendrobium pubescens Hook. Exot. Fl. t, 124. 
. Octomeria Лага Wall, MSS. O. pubescens Spreng. Syst. iv, 210 
