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ERIA convallarioides ; ß major. 
The close-headed Woolwort ; a large variety. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncutpacex. (ORcHrps, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 187.) 
ERIA.— Supra passim. 
E. convallarioides (Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 1975. Gen. & Sp. Orch. no. 25. 
Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 62. Pinalia, Lindl. orch. scel. n. 71. p. 23. c. ic. 
Pinalia alba, Hamilton mss. apud Don Prodr. Octomeria spicata, Don. 
Prodr. 31. Octomeria convallarioides, Wallich in ic. Bibl. Anglo-Indicee, 
n. 1141) ; caulibus compressis junioribus densé et laxé vaginatis, foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis multinerviis, racemis densissimis oblongis cernuis 
breviter pedunculatis, floribus subglobosis leviter pubescentibus, labello 
subcordato ovato acuto inappendiculato. 
Var. 8. major ; caulibus duplo majoribus, spicis longius pedunculatis, floribus 
clausis globosis. 
When we formerly published this species it exhibited 
little of the beauty found in the variety now made known. 
The old sort is indeed hardly to be recognized in the beautiful 
thing which is represented on the accompanying plate. The 
oblong heads of flowers are of the purest ivory white, which 
is rendered still purer by the presence of small brownish 
bracts at their base. The surface, too, of every flower is so 
polished as to resemble that of white cowries or similar 
shells. 
We are indebted for the accompanying figure to T. Twisden 
Hodges, Esq., who informs us that, under the care of his 
present gardener, the plant has become still larger and 
finer. It is distinguished from the original sort, not only by 
its much greater stature, but by the flowers being nearly 
closed, and almost globose, and by the spikes having much 
more evident stalks ; the slight hairiness found in the original 
is here entirely absent. 
Fig. l. Represents a flower separated from the spike; 
2. The column and lip. 
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