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flowers, often rather large, almost sessile amongst the pseudo- 

 bulbs. Reichenbach has referred Lindley's two original species 

 to Cryptochilus, on account of the sepals being united almost to 

 the top ; but the sepals are more or less united in E. Hchenora, 

 Lindl., E. ustulata, Reichb. f., and E. JParishii, Lindl., which 

 Reichenbach retains in Eria, and the other floral characters and 

 inflorescence are completely at variance with those of Cryptochi- 

 lus. 2. Conchidium, Griff., dwarf plants with slender one-flowered 

 peduncles, which often appear terminal on a leafless pseudobulb, 

 but are really in the axil of a leaf which has disappeared before 

 the time of flowering. 3. Bryobium, Lindl., including Alvisia, 

 Lindl., dwarf plants with the habit of Conchidium, except that the 

 peduncle bears a raceme of small flowers. 4. Mycaranthus, Blume, 

 with longer, scarcely pseudobulbous bifoliate stems, and one or 

 two peduncles from the upper nodes bearing a dense secund 

 raceme of numerous small flowers. 5. Eriura, Lindl., with 

 taller several-leaved stems, and several racemes of small flowers. 

 6. Symeneria,Jjindl., and 7. Urostachya, Lindl., the stems leafy, 

 with loose racemes of rather larger glabrous flowers, pseudoter- 

 minal in Hymeneria, lateral in Urostachya. 8. Dendrolirium, 

 Lindl., the flowers usually woolly, or, if glabrous, rather large, 

 on leafless scapes arising from the base or near the base of 

 the leaf-bearing pseudobulbs. This is a rather polymorphous 

 section not very well defined, as it includes: — E. rosea and its 

 allies {Xiphosium, Griff.) and E. acridostachya, Reichb. f, in which 

 the upper sheaths of the scape bear sometimes a leafy lamina and 

 the rather large flowers are glabrous ; E. stellata, Lindl., and its 

 allies (Octomeria vaginata, v. Breda, <fec), with a long loose ra- 

 ceme ; and E. barlata, Reichb. f, formerly referred by Lindl ey to 

 Tainia, differing from all other Erias in its long, loose, branching 

 raceme. Dendrolirion, Blume, appears to have been originally 

 intended for the whole genus Eria. 9. Trichotosia, Blume, 

 robust hispid leafy stems, with short axillary racemes ; and 10. 

 Cylindrolobus, Blume, including Ceratium, Blume, with glabrous 

 leafy stems and very short lateral peduncles bearing two or three 

 rather large flowers on long pedicels. Lindley's section Tri- 

 chosma, is here omitted, as being more appropriately considered 

 a distinct genus of Coelogyneae. 



Coelia, Lindl., is a genus of four or five species from Central 

 America and the West Indies, scarcely differing from Eria except 



