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I have been favoured by Mr. Thwaites with a sketch of this, 
showing it to be a true Eria. The pollen-masses were previously 
unknown to me. A re-examination of the old fragments in my 
herbarium has shown the lip to be much like that of Eria pau- 
ciflora, as represented in Wight’s plate, but with a shorter 
middle lobe. There is a small orange-coloured process at the 
base of the column. The surface of the middle lobe of the lip.is 
rather pulverulent. 
312. E. nutans. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 196. 
Singapore, Cuming in hort. Loddiges. 
In this plant there is a large tubercle on the foot of the column, 
Which is very short. 
313. E. KHASIANA ; foliis binis (?) lanceolatis acutis, floribus geminis 
glabris, sepalis petalisque subzequalibus, labello obovato laciniis late- 
ralibus membranaceis obtusis subfalcatis incurvis intermedia oblata 
carnosa lamella tomentosa in medio lineisque 2 truncatis secus axin 
pulverulentum, columns pede omnino nudo. 
Khasija, Griffith. 
Much like Е. nutans and pauciflora, but entirely different in 
the form of the lip. ; ; 
- B. Flowers lateral. 
314. E. clavicaulis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 219. 
Khasija, at 4000-5000 feet, J. D. Н. & T. T. (9). 
The specimens in hb. Hooker. are not in flower, so that some 
uncertainty attends this species. It approaches the last seetion 
in having the leaves at the end only of the stem; and the flowers 
are almost terminal. 
3l5. E. mucronata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 27. 
Philippines, Cuming. 
Blume's Е. elongata seems to be near this; but in my plant the 
little tuft of hairs at the base of the lip cannot be called “ tubercu- 
lum dilatatum dense glanduloso-fimbriatum." Among De Vriese's 
Sumatra drawings is a “Dendrobium macranthum,” with large 
solitary white flowers, very short.lower sepals, and violet spreading 
bracts, which may be this Eria elongata. What appears to be 
he same plant exists in the Hookerian herbarium, collected in 
Tobie Island by Barclay. | 
‚ 916. E. brachystachya, Rchb. f. in Bonplandia. Ba 
Philippines, Cuming. E T ME 
In this, which is perhaps a variety of the last, there is а small 
truncated tubercle on the foot of the column. — ; 
