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East Indies without a name. Upon sprouting they produced 
a pair of little oblong leaves recurved at their point, and be- 
tween the leaves peeped forth a small dull red flower, about 
three-quarters of an inch long. The structure of the flower 
was this. Sepals equal, rather spreading at the point, united 
at the edges into a tube ; the lateral ones a little oblique and 
prominent at the base. Petals ovate, dull purplish red, very 
short. Labellum articulated loosely with the extended foot 
of the column, ovate, hastate, fleshy, serrate, with the sides of 
the base erect ; and a single slender tooth standing up between 
the sides in the middle of the base. Column short, extended 
into a long foot, earless and wingless. Anther opercular, 
membranous. Pollen-masses 8, in pairs, one mass in each 
pair being smaller than the other. Gland and caudicle none. 
No genus of Orchids has yet been described which will 
include this. It approaches nearest to Eria, but it has the 
habit of Trias and the calyx of Masdevallia. Its technical 
character may be stated thus :— 
Porpax (Genus Eriz affine sed habitu diversissimo.) Sepala 
subæqualia, in tubum connata, lateralia basi obliqua et 
pedi producto columnæ adnata. Petala nana, libera. 
Labellum carnosum, cum pede columnæ articulatum, basi 
tuberculo auctum. Columna nana, teres, aptera. Pol- 
linia 8, per paria inæqualia. Pseudobulbi depressi, 
densè catenatim consociati, diphylli. Flores solitarii, ses- 
siles, terminales. 
Sp. 1. Porpaz reticulata. 
Pseudobulbi depressi, mutuà pressione subangulati, fibris 
pallidis pulchrè reticulati. Labellum serratum, tuber- 
culo basali cornuto. 
67. ERIA Dillwyni. 
Hooker in Botanical Magazine, t. 4163. 
E. Dillwynii ; “ pseudobulbis oblongis levibus 2-4-phyllis, foliis oblongis 
racemis subæqualibus, bracteis membranaceis oblongis obtusis reflexis, 
racemis erectis, petalis sepalisque erectis, labello trilobo basi trilamellato, 
lobo medio obtuso rotundato 5-lamellato.” 
A native of the Philippines, whence Mr. Dillwyn Llewellyn 
received it from Cuming, and flowered it at Pennlergare in 
