Eria.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 803 
PENANG, and Maracca on Mount Ophir, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1630/2). 
Perak, Wray.—DisTRIB. Borneo (Beccari, No. 483). 
Pseudobulbs 2-3 in., sessile, more or less tomentose, conie or subglobose. Leaves 
2-3 in., straight or curved, smooth, thick and spongy ; basal sheaths short, woolly. 
Scape equalling the leaf, erect; peduncle with ovary about 2 in., lengthening to 
E in fruit ; sepals about } in. long ; column very short; capsule $ in., narrowly 
ellipsoid, 
** Pseudobulbs large. Flowers brown-tomentose. 
69. E. barbata, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 270; pseudobulbs 
broadly ovoid 2-leaved, leaves large petioled lanceolate, scape and pedicels 
very long, bracts large, lateral sepals lanceolate falcate 5-7 nerved, mentum 
incurved, petals very narrow, lip stipitate narrowly lanceolate ^ Erioidea, 
Griff. It. Notes 83. ` Tainia barbata, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1857, 68. 
Knasta Hits ; in the Suniassce Valley, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 5297); Shillong, 
alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. i 
Pseudobilis 2 in. long and broad. Leaves 12-14 in., plicate, long-acuminate, 
Scape 3 ft., very stout below, pubescent ; bracts à-1 in., lanceolate; flowers distant ; 
pedicels Lin, lengthening in fruit; sepais 3 in. long, yellow tessellated with blood- 
ted (Griff.), dorsal linear; petals red-purple, tip spathulate ; lip tremulous (Griff-), 
revolute, Strongly nerved, tip scabrid; column stout; pollinia broadly pyriform, 
Attached to a stiff viscus. Capsule 1 in., narrowly oblong. 
70. E. tomentosa, Hook. f.; pseudobulbs large ovoid, leaves few 
elliptic-oblong very thick, scape terminal very stout and raceme brown- 
Villous, bracts very large, pedicels with the long ovary 1-1} in., sepals 
vriaceous faleate lanceolate, mentum large incurved, petals oblanceolate, 
'p oblong strongly nerved, claw broad, side lobes narrow, midlobe clawed 
subquadrately cordate. E. ornata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Sor. iii. 48 (wot 
V Gen. & Sp. Orchid.) E. flava, Wall. Cat. 1973/2 (in part). Epi- 
lendrum tomentosum, Awnig in Retz. Obs. vi. 53. 
, SILHET, Wallic . C alt. 3-4000 ft., and CHITTAGONG, a 
j tia koond, J. DH £T (E. ornata). TrENassER1M (dc. in Herb. Lindl. 
arish), 
Pseudobulbs 2-4 į a very stout woody rhizome, 3—4-leaved when young. 
Caves 3-6 by 113 in nerveless cinooth and almost spongy, contracted into a very 
thick petiole, Scape 612 in., as thick as à goose-quill or less, base with short coria- 
cous sheaths ; rachis of raceme stout, scarred atter fruiting ; bracts 1 in. and less, 
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oblong or lanceolate, not reflexed, coarsely veined with a broad thickened roughened 
We! area from the base to the apiculate tip.—This differs from the Philippine 
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and E. ornata in the much shorter bracts and lip. 
"+ Pseudobulbs very small or 0. (See also 68. E. pellipes.) 
tomentose all over, rhizome very 
aves linear-lanceolate subacute 
bracts small, lowers small 
"is E. Thwaitesii, Hook. f.; pale 
thick} with Short 3-7-leaved branches, le o 
-` J Coriaceous, scapes 1-2 terminal lax-fld., V l 
sh aceous, lateral sepals broad obtuse, petals linear subacute, lip tonguo- 
Tis. recurved fleshy tomentose, side lobes very small. . velutina, 
nes Enum, 299 (not of Lodd.). 
FLO’ ; in the Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 
Lea hizome as thick as a swan’s quill, internodes | very short ;_ sheaths woolly. 
me 2-4 in., often subfaleate or oblanceolate, midrib distinct. cape wit raceme 
+ in 1 » Suberect ; bracts l in., oblong, obtuse, woolly ; pedicels very s ; sep: 
' ong, yellow. Capsule 1 in. 
