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cohering, cream-coloured with darker lines ; petals, lip, and posterior 

 sepal red ; flowers in the cold weather. A curious and elegant 

 Orchid. It has been called the Umbrella Orchis, from the likeness 

 of the inflorescence. Parwar Ghaut ; on trees. 



6. ERIA, Lind. 



.1. E Braccata, Lind. in Jour. Proc. Linn. Soc. iii, p 46. — 

 Cespitose, stemless ; pseudo-bulbs orbicular, enclosed in a net-like 

 sack; leaves abouL 2, elliptic-spieading; ; scape filiform, short, 1- 

 flowered, furnished at the apex with a large, somewhat boat-shaped 

 bractea; flowers large, white, resupinate, expanding sepals and 

 petals about equal, exceeding the obscurely 3-lobed lip ; lip and 

 column yellowish. On bianches of trees in the Southern Concan 

 and Ghauts. Syn. E uniflora, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, 1 11 ; 

 E reticosa, Wight Ic. 1637. Grows also in Ceylon and the Neil- 

 gherries, where, however, the flowers are much smaller. 



2. E MicRocHiLos, Linn. loc. cit. — Pseudo-bulbs deeply bi- 

 lobed ; lobes orbicular, much-depressed, reticulated, with a white 

 skin ; leaves 3 to 4 linear, rather obtuse, rather flattened towards 

 the top, narrowed at the base, and there sheathing the flowering 

 scape ; flowers spiked alternate, secund, minute, of a straw-colour ; 

 capsule sessile ovate, smooth; sepals acuminated from a broad 

 base; petals similar ; lip ovate, undivided, half their length. On 

 trees, particularly the Mango, in the Warree Country; flowers in 

 August. Syn. Dendrobium microchilos, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 

 iii, 345. 



3. E Dalzelli, Lind. loc. cit. — Very Jike the last, a little more 

 robust, but the sepals are here fringed with marginal glands ; the 

 flowers are larger and less fleshy ; the lip is membranous, ovate- 

 lanceolate, and distinctly serrulate towards the point; Southern 

 Concan and Ghauts. Often in the hollows of trees. Syn Den- 

 drobium dalzellii. Hook, in Jour. Bot.; D filiforme, Wight Ic. 

 1642 ; Dendrobium fimbriatum, [look. Jour, iv, 292. 



6. PHOLIDOTA, Lind. 



1. P Imbhicata, Lind. Gen. and Sp. Orch. p 36. — Pseudo- 

 bulbs ovate oblong obtuse, somewhat angled ; leaves solitary oblong- 

 lanceolate, plicate, acute ; spikes the length of the leaves ; pendu- 

 lous, slender ; bracts membi'anaceous, concave imbricated ; lateral 

 sepals ovate, carinate; lip subglobose, cucullate ; lateral lobes 

 small, erect, middle one 2-lobed, cordate. Near Vingorla, rare. 

 Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 138; Bot. Reg. 1213; Wight Ic. 9U7. Grows 

 also on the Himalayas, at a height of 6,000 feet. 



