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drawn out stalk of the column : lip homed, or shortly spurred, 

 sessile, veins crested, bearded or quite smooth : usually trUobed, or 

 undivided : column half-terete, marginate : anther 1 — 2-celled ; 

 poEen masses 2, posticously 2-lobed, or hollow, caudicle linear short, 

 gland transverse. — Terrestrial, pseudoTbulbous herbs r leaves long, 

 membranaceous, plicate or many times ribbed : scapes radical, 

 many-flowered. 



(1) E. vjtEENs. fR. Brown J 



Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 182. 



Syn. Serapias epidendrsea, Eeh. ohs. vi. 65., limodorum 

 virens, Eoxh. WilU. 1. epidendroides, WiWd. 



Wight's loon. t. 913. — Koxb. cor. I. t. 38. Eheede 

 Mai. kii. t. 25. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves grass-like,' linear-lanceolate, shorter than 

 the branched scape : sepals and petals oblong, obtuse, narrower at 

 the base, tessellated : Up 3-lobed, bearded, lateral lobes shorter, 

 middle one ovate obtuse with an erect conical spur: flowers greenish- 

 yellow striated. 



Coromandel. Bengal. Clefts of rocks near Coimbatore. Malabar. 

 Mowering in the cold season. 



(2) E. BBA.GTE&BA. flmdl.J 



Lindl. 1. c. p. 181. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pHcate, longer than the 

 terminal scape : bracts leafy, almost equalling the flowers : sepal* 

 and petals fleshy, oblong, acute : lip oblong, channelled, retuse at 

 the apex, undulate, elevated, veined, glandularly bearded towards 

 the apex : spur bent inwards, tumid, acutish. 



Chittagong. , 



(3) E. CAimrATA. (LinSl.) 



Ident. LLndl. 1. c. p. 183. 



S^n. Limodomm carinatum. WilU. 



Engrwo. Eheede Mai. xii. t. 26. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves Unear, folded inwards, fleshy, easily 

 fractured: scape simple: lip concave, spathulate, repand at the 

 apex : spur without a keel. 



Malabar. 



