810 CXLVIII. oRCHIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Phreatia. 
191. CLADERIA, Hook. f. 
Terrestrial; stem tall, terete, rooting on tree-trunks, leafy. Leaves 
large, ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, plicate, narrowed into strongly 
ribbed inarticulate sheaths. Scape terminal, erect, simple or sparingly 
branched, sheathed rachis of spike many-fld., very stout, rigid, tomentose ; 
bracts short, broad, rigidly coriaceous, persistent; flowers large, coriaceous 
or fleshy, tomentose without. Sepals obtuse, dorsal oblong; lateral ob- 
liquely oblong, base saccate. Petals strongly falcate, oblanceolate, obtuse, 
costa stout. Lip as long as the sepals, concave, coriaceous, sessile at the 
base of the column ; hypochile large, broadly oblong, base saccate, CI 
with 2 tomentose ridges and many horizontally spreading nerves, epichile 
small, of 2 orbicular lobes, their bases incumbent on the tip of the hypo- 
chile. Column long, sigmoid, thickened upwards; clinandrum concave; 
anther terminal, hemispheric, imperfectly 2-lobed; pollinia 2? pyriform. 
C. viridiflora, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. 
. PERAK j at Sunga Ryah, King’s Collector. | MArACcca, Maingay ; 
jungles. i 
Stem 8-10 ft., as thick as a goose-quill, terete; the lower part creeping, and 
rooting, the upper erect and clinging to trees by side roots. Leaves 5-10 by 14-3 in» 
5-nerved, Spikes 2-5 in., very stout, strict, erect; bracts concave, Om ee 
sessile by a very broad base; flowers 1} in. diam., pale green, striped with dar eri 
sepals and petals nearly glabrous within, strongly nerved, the nerves branching e 
anastomosing; lip abruptly shortly narrowed at the base.—I know nothing very 
like this curious plant, which I place provisionally near Eria. 
iu dense 
20. PHREATIA, Lindl. 
Tufted often very small plants, with the habit of Oberoma, pseudo; 
bulbous or not. Leaves distichous, articulate on equitant sheaths. | os 
axillary or lateral, or from the rootstock, slender; flowers very metals 
cellular, racemed or spicate. Sepals equa}, connivent or spreading. " p" 
smaller. Lip jointed on the base of the column or its foot, sessi low 
clawed, broad or narrow. Column very short, top broad ; anther sule 
2—4-celled ; pollinia 8, obovoid, waxy, cohering by a viscus ka 
minute, ovoid, terete.—Species about 10, Indian, Malayan and Oceani® 
The flowers are of the same cellular texture as in Thelasis. 
stem 0, leaves 
acts ovate- 
1eate, 
* in 
l. P. Myosurus, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 61; 
8-12 in. strap-shaped, tip obliquely rounded, scape long, br 
lanceolate acuminate, sepals obtuse, mentum rounded, lip sessile cul 
broad end obscurely 3-lobed. Erja (Phreatia) Myosurus, Reich. 
Bonplandia. 
- .J 
S PERAK, alt. 3000-3500 ft., King’s Collector, Scortechini.— DISTRIB 
umatra. `; d 
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Rhizome very stout. Leaves 1-3 in. broad, flat, membranous. Se lon, 
raceme rather longer than tbe leaves; bracts variable in length ; flower id lip. 
waxy-white.—The Javan specimens have a shorter, broader, more rhombo 
. Soc. 
. . a. ? 
.. 2. P. elegans, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 63; in Journ. Late or 
ul. 61; stem 0 or a small pseudobulb, leaves 24-5 in. linear tania ng h 
obianceolate obtuse, scape longer, bracts ovate-lanceolate exce 
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