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subdivisions пау be formed: viz. ERIUBA, remarkable for a tuft or 
two of wool on the axis of the lip, TmicuorosiA with coarse 
shaggy racemes, CYLINDROLOBUS, with 1- or 2-flowered peduncles 
clothed with smooth coloured membranous bracts below the 
flowers, and finally UzosrAcHxA, which includes the species that 
will go into none of the preceding sections. 
$ Т. Сохонірісм, Griffith. 
This group bears the closest analogy to the second section of 
Stachyobium among Dendrobia, like’ it, consisting of small stem- 
less species, with round or depressed pseudo-bulbs, membranous 
leaves, and flowers solitary or in few-flowered racemes, for the 
most part very minute. To this last, however, .E. braccata and 
Lichenora are exceptions. In E. pusilla, microchilos, and others, 
four of the pollen-masses are rudimentary and easily overlooked : 
in muscicola and microchilos, indeed, I have only succeeded in 
finding four; but their form, tapering downwards into a point, 
seems to be a safe mark to separate them from the minute Den- 
drobia. 
257. Е. braccata. (Dendrobium braccatum, L, О. p. 75.—Eria reticosa, 
Wight, Ic. 1637.—Eria uniflora, Dalzell in Hooker’s Journal, iv. 111.) 
Ceylon, Macrae, Gardner (859), Thwaites (2356); Horton plains, 
Champion (Eria velifera, R. W.); Nilgherries, Wight; common on 
trees in the Western Ghauts, in the rainy season, Stocks (24). 
When this was first published І һаа been unable to examine 
the pollen-masses. It varies in the size of the flowers; those 
from the Western Ghauts, preserved among Stocks’s planta, are 
four times as large as the Cingalese, with much more acuminate 
sepals and petals. 
258. E. Lichenora. (Lichenora Jerdoniana, Wight, Ic. 1738.) 
Malabar mountains, Wight. 
This remarkable plant is certainly not different from Eria. 
259. E. nana, Ach. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. xv. 19. 
Nilgherries, 4. Richard, Wight (171, 172). 
My authentic specimens from A. Richard are identical with 
Wight's 171. His 172 is somewhat different, with flowers a8 
large as those in Richard’s very bad figure of hig Dendrobium mi 
erobolbon, which looks as if it had been made up from the leaves 
and flowers of E. nana, while the dissections belonged to another 
plant. The thin broad obovate leaves of йч have, ай no 
resemblance t to Richard’ 8 figure. . | ‚жуй 
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