Eria.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 805 
oblong obtuse 3-nerved, lip narrow fleshy ?, side lobes tooth-like, midlobe 
narrow tongue-shaped or oblong. 
PERAK ; at low elevations, King’s Collector. 
Pseudobulbs at first the sheathed thickened lower internode of the stem, after the 
fall of the sheaths ovoid-oblong, j-$ in. long; sheaths L in., ovate. Leaves 3-4 in., 
mMany-nerved, tip unequally 2-fid. Racemes 1-2 in., 6-10-fld. ; bracts } in., broadly 
ovate, membranous, quite glabrous, as long as the woolly ovary; “flowers waxy 
white, blue inside ;” sepals sparsely woolly. 
Sect. VIII. BAMBUSIFOLIA (see p. 786). 
77. E. bambusifolia, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 61; leaves 
large linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, racemes as long simple or branched 
slender laxly many-fld. and tlowers densely brown-tomentose, bracts small 
orbicular apiculate, lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate falcate 5-nerved, mentum 
ong incurved, petals oblanceolate acuminate falcate 3-nerved, lip clawed 
ovate-oblong strongly nerved, side lobes very small, midlobe small orbicular, 
column long decurved. 
Tropica Sik&rw HIMALAYA, J. D. H. Kuasia Mrs.; at Borpanee, alt. 
34000 ft., Simonds, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5112). . 
Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as the thumb or less. Leaves a span long and less, 1-2 in. 
broad, acuminate, mauy-nerved. Raceme longer than the leaves; rachis slender ; 
bracts à in., retlexed ; ` pedicel 1—l in.; ovary slender; lateral sepals j in. long. 
Capsule 1-11 in., slender, subterete, ribs slender. 
18. B. crassicaulis, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. ; leaves subterminal 
elliptic ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, racemes as long slender laxly many-fid. 
and flowers brown-tomentose, bracts small orbicular, lateral sepals broadly 
oblong very obtuse 5-nerved, mentum short incurved, petals oblong 
3-nerved, lip banded with purple shortly clawed, side lobes narrow, midlobe 
emarginate, base not contracted, claw axis and midlobe furfuraceous as are 
Sometimes the 2 lateral nerves on the disk, column large decurved. E. 
Clavicaulis ?, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 59. 
Kuasta Mrs. ; at Pomrang, alt. 4-5000 ft, J. D. H. § T. T. . 
Stem 10-12 in., as thick as the thumb or less ; lower internodes 2-3 in. Leaves 
16 in., acutely unequally 2-fid, coriaceous, nerved. Racemes as long; bracts j in. ; 
\cels with ovary 3—1 in.; flowers pale, banded with purple ; lateral sepals 4 ha 
orsal as long; pollinia broadly pyriform.—Much less leafy than E. bam ase " 
more pseudobulbous in habit, with shorter ovary and very differently shape Ke 3, 
Petals and lip; the racemes and bracts of the two are singularly alike. — The a hasia 
Specimens have only stem, leaves, raceme and bracts; the description of the owers 
's from Kew Garden specimens, and a fiue drawing in Herb. Calcutt.ofa form with 
stem } in. diam, 
. 19. E. leptocarpa, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
tip dimidiater peduncie ebrccinuscly 3-5-fld., bracts ovate acute, lateral 
Pals ovate-lanceolate acuminate and oblong petals 3-nerved, mentum 
arge obtuse incurved, lip broadly clawed, side lobes oblong incurve 
Overlapping the larger broadly orbicular pubescent midlobe, axis with 
slen ges thickened at the sinus, column very short, capsule 3 in. very 
nder, 
PERAK : S e e ee 9 ; 
3 Scortechini, King's Collector. oa 
1 Stem 2-3 ft., nearly a8 thick below as the little finger, and hollow ? internodes 
i in, Leaves 6-8 in., thinly coriaceous, obtuse, tip of one side 3 n. ud with 
the other, Peduncle 1 in., and bracts 4—4 in., fleshy ? ; lowers yellow mottled wi 
