THE ORCHIDS OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 35 



Anther imperfectly 4 or 8-celled ; pollinia normally 8, pear-shaped 

 or broadly obovoid, attached in fours by narrow bases to a viscus. 

 Section I, P or pax (character given in list of genera). 

 Flowers dark, purple, bell-shaped ... 

 Flowers yellowish, 2-lipped 

 Section II. ConcMd'mm. 



Flowers solitary, large white 

 Section III. — Bryobium. 



Flowers green, sepals and petals without 



glandular hairs ... 

 Flowers green, sepals and petals with 

 glandular hairs .,,. 

 Section IV. — Hymeneria. 



Sepals and petals white, lip yellow, side 

 lobes purple 

 Section I. — Porpax. 



1. Eria reticulata, Benth. Fl. Br. Ind., V., 786. 

 Pseudobulbs button-like, f inch in diameter, densely crowded on the 



bark of trees, grey with darker blotches. Leaves 2, broadly oblong, 

 less than one inch long. Flower solitary, f inch long, dark purple 

 brown rising from between the leaves, stalk very short, sheathed and 

 with a large orbicular retuse bract. Sepals united into a bell-shaped 

 3-lobed tube, spur almost obsolete, petals spoon-shaped, lip half the 

 length of the petals, fiddle-shaped, margins crenulate, base with a 

 short erect spur, pollinia 8, pear-shaped. 



Distribution. — Throughout the "Western Ghats. Flowers appear in June. 



As the pseudobulbs are small and disk-like and so closely resemble the bark 

 on which they rest, this humble plant is very difficult to discover. 



2. Eria Lichenora, Lindl. FL Br. Ind., V., 787. 

 Pseudobidbs depressed, disk-like, small, covered with a fibrous network. 



Leaves 2 on each pseudobulb, orbicular, ovate, ciliate, up to 1 inch long, 

 brownish purple beautifully tessellated with green. Floicers % inch 

 long, yellowish, two-lipped, dorsal sepal orbicular, ovate, lateral united, 

 hairy, petals linear, spur small, rounded, Up very small, shortly clawed, 

 ovate cordate, sides toothed, tip acute. 



Distribution. — Found by G. M. Woodrow in flower at Sampkund, N. Kanara, 

 in July and by T. J. Spooner, during the same month, on the Belgaum and 

 N. Kanara Ghats ;also recorded from the Bababuden Hills and Travancore. 



