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ERIA stellata. 
Starry Eria. 
Nat. ord. Ouciiide.e. Div. Epidendreoe. 
ERIA Lindley. — Perianthium lanatum, connivens. £«^>e///fm trilobuin, 
articulatum cum processu unguiformi columnae cujus lateribus sepala uticft 
adnascuatur. PoUinia octo. Collectanea Botauica 42. B. inedita. 
E% stsUatd; foliis lasceolatis carnOsis 5-nembus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis 
acuminatiSj labelli lobo medio acuminato, scapo angulato, ovario sepalis- 
Siie exterioribus pube femigine£i lanatis. Lindl. I. c. 
robium javanicum. Swartz AcL Holm. 1800 p. 247? Willd. sp. 
4.137? 
Herba parasitica, repens, rolusta. Folia \h-'2 pedalia, ercctn, cariio^n, 
glaberrima, lanceoiata, tri-quinquenervia, busi squamis ovato-lanceolatis, 
vaginantihus, yiervosis circumdata. Scapus 2-pedalis, teres, ancjulatus, 
ttndiquc puhe lanatd, rani, ferrugined obdactus. I' lores spicati, apice stel- 
latim patentes, luteo-ferruginei, extiis eddcm land ac scapus obducti ; basr 
bracted ovatd, concanl, scariosd, siccd, decidnd, ovario longiorc, extits vUlosd 
suffulti. Perianthium connivens, sepalis apice patentibus, lineari- lanccolatis, 
acuminatis, eeqiialibus, 5-nervibus, exterioribus basi connatis, extHs ferrugineo 
lanatis, interioribus glaberrimis : anticis basibus productis cum basi elongata 
columnce connatis. Labellum crectum, cum columna parallelum, ejusqnc 
basi articulatum, ovato-lancerolatum, basi cucullatum, 3-lobum: disco carnoso, 
tricostato : lobis lateralibus abbreviatis, retundatiSy pallidis, venosis : inter- 
medio eloyigato, acffmilJMlto, sepalis breviore. Columna brevis, semitcres. 
Gynizus anticus, concavivsculus, apice ovatus. Anthera carnosa, cristafaf^ 
apice dilatata tftmet^ay omnino biloculatist loculis discretis, bivalvibui. 
JPoUinia cuigue locuh 4, in paribus duobus, collateraUaf batUmt ad /itciem 
Jitediam loeuu advert, et materie viscidd comiexis. 
This genus has been founded, in the work above cited, 
upon a remarkable plant from IN'ipal, the Dendrobium 
pubescens of Professor Hooker, and the subject of this 
article. It differs from all the other genera, having the 
flower of Dendrobium, in the number of its pollen masses, 
with the exception of Octomeria, which we have had no 
opportunity of examining; but which, as an American 
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