Tas. 5910. 
ERIA ee ma cent. 
Native of Birma. 
Nat. Ord. Orcumacez.—Tribe MaLtaxipE&.—§ DENDROBIEZ. 
’ Genus Erta, Lindl. (Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 65). 
Eria extinctoria; aphylla, pseudobulbis aggregatis depressis orbiculatis, 
scapo terminali solitario v. geminato erecto filiforme unifloro, sepalis 
_lateralibus posticis basi longe in ecalcar extinctorii-forme productis, 
labelli tricarinati unguiculati limbo trilobo lobo centrali latiore bifido. 
DenprosiuM extinctorium, Lindl. Bot. Reg., sub tab. 1756, No. iv.; Walp. 
Annales, vol. vi. p. 308. 
Erta capillipes, Parish MSS. in Herb. Kew. 
Like Drymoda picta, figured in our last number (Tab. 5904), 
we have here another singular little leafless Birmese Epiphy- 
tal Orchid, first collected by the late Mr. Griffith, by whom spe- 
cimens were transmitted to Dr. Lindley, who briefly described 
it ina note in the Botanical Register cited above, referring it 
to the genus Dendrobium. This reference to Dendrobium must 
be attributed to some oversight in the examination of the 
pollinia, for these are clearly eight in number, as pointed out 
first by the Rev. Mr. Parish, to whom we are indebted for our 
specimens, which flowered in the Royal Gardens in April last. 
From the same gentleman we have a careful drawing and | 
analysis, dated 1870, to which he has appended the note :— 
“This little plant answers so remarkably to the description of 
Lindley’s Dendrobium extinctorium that I long assumed it was 
it, but on examination I find it is an ria! 
The specimens sent originally to Dr. Lindley were insuffi- 
cient for complete examination, hence his error as to the 
pollinia. Specimens are in the Kew Herbarium gathered by 
Mr. Griffith and by Dr. Falconer. 
JuLY Ist, 1871. 
