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from Ceylon by the Rev. J. Clowes, to whom I am obliged 

 for a specimen. It has something the appearance of Eulophia 

 macrostachya ; the flowers are green except the lip which is 

 bright yellow. 



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32. ERIA acutifolia. 



E. acutifolia (Tonsse) ; caulibus oblongis abbreviatis, foliis lanceolatis cori- 

 aceis acutissimis scapi longitudine, racemo erecto paucifloro pubescentes 

 bracteis oblongis reflexis floribusque glabris, labelli lobis lateralibus, 

 acutissimis erectis intermedio oblongo obtuso concavo glabro: venis 

 tribus elevatis carnosis, clinandrio profunde excavato. 



A small unattractive species, imported from India 

 Messrs. Loddiges, (no. 209). Its leaves are fleshy, deep 

 green, very acute, and between two and three inches long ; 

 the raceme is erect, composed of five or six distant flowers, of 

 a dirty white, with violet veins. The lip has a purple base, 

 and a dull yellow tip. It must be classed near E. clavicaulis. 



33. ERIA paniculata. 



Lindl. in Wall Plant. Asiat. rar. vol. 1. p. 32. t 36. 



Specimens of this plant have flowered with Messrs. Lod- 

 diges. They have exactly the appearance of Dr. Wallich's 

 figure, with long narrow taper-pointed leaves, and panicles of 

 small greenish flowers slightly freckled with purple. They 

 have a line of fine white powder formed all along the middle 

 of the lip, and burying the tubercle which occurs at the base. 

 This powder consists of a vast multitude of pyriform bodies 

 visible only under a microscope, and of the same nature as 

 those which occur on Polystachya. They are in fact extremely 

 short hairs of one joint tapering to the base ; in appearance 

 they resemble fine powdery dust. 



34. CCELOGYNE testacea. 



acea; pseudobulbis ovalibus angustis angulatis, foliis lanceolatis, 3 

 >statis, racemo pendulo, bracteis ovatis cucullatis ovarii longitudine 

 palis petalisque subaequalibus, labelli oblongi lobis lateralibus rotun 

 itis obsoletis intermedio obtuso : venis 4 r.«r,iii<>cr..r.ri*tntia 



An Orchidaceous plant from Sincapore, introduced by 

 Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers hang down in racemes about 



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