Tas. 8296. 
ERIA RHopoPTERA. 
Phil ippt nes. 
OrcHIpAaceAr. ‘Tribe EpIDENDREAE. 
Eri, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 509. 
Eria rhodoptera, Reichb. f. iv Gard. Chron. 1882, xviii. p. 586; Rolfe in Orch. 
Jtev. 1909, p. 220: ad FL. Dillwynii, Hook., accedit, sed petalis et labelli 
lobis lateralibus sanguineis differt. : 
Pseudobulbi aggregati, ovoideo-oblongi, 3-10 em. longi, 2-4-phylli. Folia 
coriacea, oblongo-lanceolata, subacuta, 12-25 cm. longa, 2-3 cm. lata. 
Scapi erecti, 14-17 cm. longi, parce pubescentes; racemi multiflori, 
Bracteie obiongae, subobtusae, membranaceae, 1-1°8 cm. longae, stra- 
mineae. Pedicelli graciles, 1-3-2 em. longi. lores mediocres, numerosi, 
straminei, petalis et labelli lobis lateralibus sanguineis. Sepala oblonga, 
subacuta, apice recurva, 1-1°3 cm. longa. /eta/a oblonga, subacuta, 
apice oblique incurva, 1-1°3 em. longa. Labelium trilobum, 6-8 mm. 
longum; lobi laterales erecti rotundati, obtusi; lobus intermedius 
recurvus, obovatus, apiculatus ; discus tricarinatus, carinis apice crenatis 
vel subfimbriatis. (Columrna clavata, 4 mm. longa.—F. Laucheana, Krinzl. 
in Gard. Chron, 1892, vol. xi. p. 809.—R. A. Rours. 
Eria rhodoptera was described by the late Professor 
Reichenbach from a plant which flowered in the Pine- 
apple nursery of Messrs. Henderson & Son, at Maida 
Vale, in 1882. The plant, which was described as having 
flowers of a pallid whitish or ochre colour, with purple 
petals and purple side-lobes to the lip, appears to have been — 
soon lost sight of, and its native country was unknown. Ten 
years later Professor Kranzlin described as E. Laucheana 
a plant, of which the native country was also unknown, 
from the collection of Prince Leichtenstein at Eisgrab. A 
plant of EL. Laucheana was sent to Kew in 1904 from the 
Botanical Garden at Heidelberg, where there is a good and 
well-grown collection of Orchids. This plant flowered at 
Kew in April in a tropical house under the treatment 
suitable for species of Evia, Dendrobium and Coelogyne, and 
on flowering it was found to be identical with herbarium 
material of a species of Eria from the Philippines and also 
Janvaky, 1910. 
