荫生沙晶兰 yin sheng sha jing lan

Eremotropa sciaphila Andres, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 76: 107. 1955; E. wuana Y. L. Chou.

Inflorescences to 4–11 cm tall, to 5 mm diam. below lowermost flower, 2- to several flowered racemes. Flowers nodding at anthesis, tubular-campanulate. Sepals 4 or 5, elliptic-oblong, to 9 × 4 mm. Petals 4 or 5, oblong, to 15 × 8 mm, decidedly longer than sepals, base shallowly saccate. Disk of paired, short blunt lobes protruding from base of ovary opposite saccate portions of petal bases. Fl. and fr. unknown.

Quercus forests; ca. 2200 m. Yunnan (near Kunming).

The berry is not mature on the type specimen of Eremotropa sciaphila, the only specimen seen by one of us (Wallace).