Eria.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 807 
3-nerved, lip with a long straight claw and small flabelliform limb densely 
pubescent except the margin. 
PERAK, Scortechini. 
„Stem 6-8 in., as thick as a duck’s quill, upper sheaths hirsute. Leaves slightly 
hairy when young. Peduncle hirsute or glabrescent ; bracts 3-2 in.; mentum half 
as long as the sepals ; lip straight, limb thick crenate; column glabrous, foot tumid 
villous.—The smallest species of this sub-section. 
84. E. oligantha, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. ; nearly glabrous, leaves 
2-21 im. thickly coriaceous ovate-lanceolate glabrous above tomentose 
beneath, flowers 1-2 sessile glabrescent, sepals ovate acuminate 5-7-nerved, 
petals narrowly oblanceolate acute 3-nerved, lip narrow, claw long pubes- 
cent, iimb half as long obovate villous. 
PENANG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1629). . 
Stem 10-12 in., curved, as thick as a goose-quill, tips hirsute. Leaves with 
strongly recurved margins when dry, not served, Flowers j in. long, at first 
irsute; mentum as long as the sepals; side lobes of lip narrow, rounded ; terminal 
thickened, crenulate, emarginate ; column and its foot pubescent. 
85. E. velutina, G. Loddiges in Bot. Iteg. 1840, Misc. 86; stem above 
and leaves softly villous, leaves 2-3 in. thickly coriaceous oblong-lanceolate, 
Owers few in subsessile spikes, bracts ovate coriaceous, sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, petals linear obtuse 5-nerved, lip very long-clawed, glabrous 
with a villous cushion on the cuneate obovate limb. Walp. Ann, vi. 274. 
SINGAPORE, Cuming (Hort. Loddiges). Maracca, Maingay. TENASSERIM, 
Helfer (Kew Distrib. 5110). , 
Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves with strongly revolute margins 
when dry, Spikes dense-fld. ; mentum as long as the sepals ; side lobes of lip rounded, 
midlobe short, 2-fid ; foot of column puberulous.—The flowers are described in Bot. 
z. as solitary, 
86. E. pulvinata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 56 ; villously hirsute, 
stems short, leaves 11-2 in. ovate subacute, flowers solitary hirsute, sepals 
*vate-lanceolate, petals linear, lip spathulate emarginate hairy and with a 
Pubescent cushion within the tip. 
TENASsERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. : i 
l Described by Lindley from Gad evidently enlarged) drawing by Griffith. Parish 
5a drawing of a plant named Z. pulvinata with tufted erect stems 6 in. ong 
iden at the base, flowers white 2-nate nearly 1 in. long, mentum truncate much 
Porter than the sepals, 
87. E. tuber ; Ic. Plant. ined.; stem short glabrous 
*Xcept, the tips and ase, lentus 2-91 in. lanceolate thickly coriaceous 
glabrous on both surfaces flowers 2 on a short peduncle hirsute, bracts 
orbicular or ovate very coriaceous, sepals ovate-lanceolate falcate, petals 
tarrowly spathulate obtuse 3-nerved, lip obovate, axis tomentose, midlobe 
ort broad 2-winged or retuse. 
PERAK, S ini 
cortec . 
» Scortechini, 1-4 in.diam. Flowers 
side lobes of lip 
88. & rufi ; ; tenzeit. xix. 13; hirsute, 
` nula, Reichb. f. in Hamb. Gartenzett. 7 
leaves 9-4 in. narrowly lanceolate very coriaceous, spikes short 2-4 fid. 
