62 PROFESSOR LINDLEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
manner. The lip is so dilated and folded near the end as to 
seem to. be 8-lobed.— Possibly A. Brongniart’s Oxyanthera mi- 
erantha may be this; but if so, the inflorescence is taken from 
another plant, perhaps the Thelasis, which furnished his mag- 
nified dissections (as Prof. Reichenbach has pointed out to me in 
conversation). Му learned friend's definition of his Eria myo- 
surus appears to have been taken from an incomplete specimen, 
for which reason the above specific character is now proposed. 
326. Рн. MINUTIFLORA; foliis linearibus coriaceis recurvis equitan- 
tibus obtusis spicis tenuibus equalibus, bracteis triangulo-setaceis, 
labello obovato concavo. 
Borneo, Lobb. ` 
Leaves about 2 incheslong. Flowers the smallest in the genus, 
in an erect very slender spike. Bracts brown, setaceous, broad at 
the base. 
327. Рн. MicRoTIDIS; foliis linearibus coriaceis equitantibus apice 
acutis recurvis spicis densis angulatis zequalibus, bracteis floribus bre- 
vioribus, labello orbiculari concavo basi pandurato. 
Java, Lobb. 
Much like а pigmy Microtis, the whole plant not exceeding 
2 inches in height. Blume’s Dendrolirium pusillum, formerly 
referred by me to Phreatia (Gen. & Sp. p. 64), seems to be rather an 
Appendicula, and can have nothing to do with the present species. 
328. PH. TAHITENSIS; folio oblongo coriaceo plano oblique bilobo 
spice dense multiflore zquali, scapo trivaginato, mento oblongo 
obtuso, labelli acuti rhombei longe unguiculati angulis lateralibus 
| runcinatis, bracteis oblongis herbaceis acutis canaliculatis florum 
1 longitudine. 
Tahiti, Bidwill. 
Plant between 8 and 4 inches high, of which 14 inch is occupied 
by а dense spike whose flowers are the largest in the genus, 
measuring in their dried state nearly ith of an inch in length. 
The lateral sepals are extended into a long blunt chin, which 
probably led M. Reichenbach to remark, that “here the genera 
Phreatia and Eria run together.” But the cartilaginous bifid 
7 rostellum of the former genus is perhaps more strongly marked 
- in this than in any other species. 
Tuzzasrs, Blume. 
The extremely short characters assigned by Prof. Blume, both 
in his * Bijdragen,’ and in his recent * Museum Lugd. Bat., to the 
species of this curious genus, render all attempts at identifying 
his plants almost hopeless—especially since, in the latter work, 
