Eria.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEH. (J. D. Hooker.) 809 
SECT. XI. Acriposracuya (see p. 786). 
" ie E. acridostachya, Reichb. f. mss.; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
1u, 48. 
F Perak, Scortechini; Larut, alt. 3500-4500 ft., King’s Collector.— DISTRIB. 
ava. 
. Rhizome very stout ; sheaths 1-3 in., rigidly coriaceous; upper ensiform, some- 
times 3-4 in. Leaf 6-12 in., petioled, acute, thickly coriaceous. Scape stout, 
C-10 m., naked; raceme 4-6 in., cylindric ; flowers spreading or deflexed, coriaceous, 
about 3 in. from tip of mentum to up,er sepal ; bracts minute; pedicel with ovary 
jin.; lateral sepals much longer than broad, faleate, obtuse ; dorsal much smaller ; 
petals linear-oblong, obtuse; lip sessile, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, base concave, 
side lobes very small; column very short, foot long, fleshy, channelled. 
Sect. XII. Dirocurorsis (see p. 786). 
93. E. Scortechinii, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. 
PERAK, Scortechini ; on trees, alt. 5-5300 ft., King’s Collector. . 
. Stem 3-6 ft., as thick as a goose-quill; internodes 1-14 in. Leaves 3-5 in., 
linear-lanceolate, tips dimidiate, nerves strong. Panicle 4-5 in. long and broad, 
tomentose ; bracts at the axils 1-1 in., chartaceous, floral narrow; flowers sessile, 
Waxy-white, bluish within ; ovary very short; sepals } in., orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 
“verved, keel winged; dorsal oblong; petals broadly oblong, 3-nerved ; mentum 
short ; lip sessile, broadly cuneate ; side lobes long, spreading, obtuse, midlobe trans- 
versely 2-winged, disk with a broad tomentose ridge ending in a large cushion on the 
midlobe ; column not long.— Habit of Arundina, sect. Dilochia, 
Sect. XIII. PrELLAIANTHUS (see p. 786). 
94. E. leiophylla, Zind/. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 57. Ceratcstylis 
pellita, Reichb. f. in Herb. Kew. 
p, PENANG; on stones, Maingay (Kew Distrib, 1631); alt. 2000 ft., Curtis. — 
ISTRIB. Borneo, . 
Rhizome very stout, rusty-tomentose; pseudobulb small, depressed conical, 
Lirowed into a cylindric sheathed 2-3-nodal fleshy erect stem 1-3 in. long. 
eaves 2, 5-7 by 3-L in., linear-oblong, obtuse or notched. Spike far below the 
oe very short and flowers rusty-tomentose ; bracts rounded ; lateral sepals } in., 
0 “ong, very obtuse and linear-oblong petals fleshy or thickly coriaceous ; mentum 
“cure; lip sessile, ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, very thick, smooth with a furfura- 
eous cushion towards the base and over the tip; column very short, broad ; anther 
ow, t-celled ; pollinia 2, large, compressed, angular (and ? 2 small).— A remarkable 
plant, described by Lindley from an imperfect Bornean specimen, and referred to 
t. Trichotosia. 
DOUBIFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES, 
E, Rimanni, Reich. f. in Gard. Chron. 1885, ii. 712; pseudobuibs 3 by 1 in. 
Pyriform, leaves 2—4 cuneate-oblong acute coriaceous light green 11-nerved, raceme 
toca. drooping and inflorescence rusty-pilose, flowers pellucid sulphur-cold., 
aed sepals triangular, mentum long obtuse, petals oblong obtuse, lip cuneate, 
e lobes dimidiate-oblong midlobe transversely oblong emarginate golden with 
E. Dpto base with a tumid callus.— Burma (Hort. Sanders). —Probably near 
y DJ, R. f. D have seen no specimens. . . 
erona Polyura, Lindl. in Bot. Rey, xxviii, (1842), Misc. 2, is a Malayan species 
“neously supposed to be a native of Ceylon. 
