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but I am quite unable to reconcile it with the description in the 
‘Flora of British India.’ In the description of the section the 
pseudo-bulb is said to be one-leaved instead of two or more, 
and the scape rises from the base of the pseudo-bulbs instead 
of from the axil of one of the uppermost sheaths. 
In the specific description the lip is described as ‘“ Coriaceous 
. . side lobes very small.’ In my specimens it is rather 
thin in texture, and I can see no trace of any side lobes. The 
apex is rather fleshier than the base, and I imagine that this 
fleshier portion represents the epichil. 
The capsule is } inch long, elliptic, splitting into its com- 
ponent coste when ripe, so that they are quite separate 
except at the ends, where they are held together by the withered 
perianth. 
Eria (§ AéRiposracuya) DASYSTACHYS, Redl., sp. nova. Rhizoma 
crassum, lignosum. Pseudo-bulbi 3 poll. longi, crassi, validi, 
conico-cylindrici, a vaginis chartaceis tecti. Folia usque ad 4, 
8 poll. longa, 1 poll. lata, oblanceolata, in petiolos attenuata, 
haud coriacea. Racemi 2, in axillis foliorum inferiorum orti, 
4-5 poll. longi, erecti, basi longe nudi ferrugineo-tomentosi ; 
bractee c. 7, dissitee, ovate ; pars florifera 2 poll. longa. Flores 
dense congesti, resupinati, ferrugineo-tomentosi ; bractew } poll. 
longw, cum ovariis equilonge vel paullo longiores, ovato- 
lanceolate subacute. Sepala ovata, acuta; mentum crassum, 
obtusum, ferrugineo-tomentosum. Petala sepalis breviora, 
linearia acuminata, subobtusa, glabra. Labellum tenue ; unguis 
linearis, in marginibus incrassatus: lobi laterales breves, 
rotundati, crispi, medius ovatus obtusus crispus. Columna 
crassiuscula. Anthera tenuis, complanata, apice retusa, in 
margine emarginata; rostellum majusculum. 
Hab. Pahang: Kwala Pahang, on a low tree! 
This species in its dense spike of rusty pubescent flowers 
resembles H. aéridostachya, Reichb. f., but the pseudo-bulb is 
not covered with the persistent sheaths but with their decayed 
papery ones. There are four leaves, and the inflorescences 
spring from the axils of the two lower ones and not from the 
axils of sheaths. 
K. (§ A®riposracuya) toriroia, Ridl., sp. nova. Rhizoma 
ferme 1 poll. crassum, lignosum. Caules 1 poll. longi, crassi, 
a vaginis magnis (summa fere 5 poll. longé) chartaceis tecti. 
