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(2) E. PTTBESOENS. (R.W.J 



Wight 1. c. t. 1634. 



Spec. Chae. Stem leafy, short, clotted at the base with sheath- 

 ing ; scales : leaves lanceolate, tapering at both ends, marked with 

 strong longitudiaal veins : racemes slender, drooprag : rachis and 

 pedicels pubescent : flowers resupinate : bracts as long as the pedi- 

 cels, lanceolate-acumiaate : sepals and petals a little longer than 

 the lip, glabrous, falcate, attenuated towards the point, 3-nerved : 

 lip oblong, 3-nerved, sub-coriaceous at the base, contracted in the 

 middle : Hmb lanceolate, acute, margins membranous, reflexed : 

 flowers white, perianth tipped with pink. 



Western slopes of the Neilgherries, flowering in August and 

 September. 



(3) E. PATTCrPtOBA. (B, W.J 



Idmt. Wight 1. e. t. ,1636. 



Spec. Chae. Csespitose, stems erect, succulent, jointed, thickened 

 at the apex, with a leaf at each joint, last joint thickened, tuberous, 

 surmounted by two leaves, from between which rises the short 1- or 

 3-flowered raceme : leaves ovate, oblong, obtuse : flowers longish 

 pedicelled: sepals about equal or sHghtly longer than the narrow 

 linear petals : lip somewhat corrugated, ftirnished with two lamellae 

 near the base : flowers piu:e white. 



Moist rocks below the Kaitie falls, Neilgherries, flowering in 

 August and September. 



(4> E. EETICOSA. (R. W.J 



Ident. Wight 1. c. t. 1637. 



Syn, E. braccata, Idndl. in Jowrn. Proc. lAnn. Soe. III. p. 46. 

 E. uniflora, Dah. in Hook. Jowrn. Rot. IV. III. 



Spec. Char. Csespitose, stemless : pseudo-bulbs orbicular, de- 

 pressed, enclosed in a net-like, sack : leaves about two, eUiptio, 

 spreading : scape fiUform, 1 -flowered, furnished at the apex with a 

 large somewhat boat-shaped bractea : flowers large, resupinate, 

 expanding : sepals and petals about equal, exceeding .the obscurely 

 3-lobed JSp: floweiis pure white, lip and column yellow, bjaot 

 brownish. 



Branches Of trees about Pycarrah, Neilgherries, flowering in May 

 and June. 



