bent backwards till they take hold in the soil. It 

 requires a fair amount of rest when growth is com- 

 pleted and, in a basket, may be given abundance of 

 water during the growing season. It evidently resents 

 too low a temperature and too much direct sunlight. In 

 the original basket there were apparently two distinct 

 plants, one with the tomentum distinctly paler, but 

 except in this character the two do not differ, and they 

 must be regarded as merely forms of one species. The 

 consignment of which this Eria formed part included a 

 Coelogyne which on flowering proved to be C. pachybulbon, 

 RidL, a circumstance which indicates Siam as almost 

 certainly the country of origin of this Eria also. As to 

 the identity of the species figured there is no doubt ; it 

 agrees with the ' Indian ' plant mentioned under E. omata, 

 Lindl., figured at t. 8642 of this work, as having been 

 confused by Lindley with that Malayan species, but as 

 having been afterwards distinguished therefrom by 

 Hooker as E. tomentosa owing to its being the species 

 originally described by Koenig as Epidendrum tomentosum. 

 A comparison of the two illustrations will show that, as 

 Hooker pointed out in 1890, E. tomentosa, now figured, has 

 relatively shorter and broader bracts than E. omata has. 

 Ihe flowers also differ in colour, and the leaves in the 

 example depicted are narrower than those of E. omata, 

 though this last character does not hold good for all the 

 dried specimens from which E. tomentosa has hitherto 

 been somewhat imperfectly known. This species is only 

 to be accounted an < Indian' one because of its presence 

 in the Khasia Hills which, however, lie east of the 

 Brahmaputra and have a flora which is Indo-Chinese 

 rather than Indian. Its other known localities, Chitta- 

 gong lenassenm and now Siam, are Indo-Chinese, a fact 

 which suggests that the Pungah plant obtained by Mr. 

 Curtis also mentioned under t. 8642 of this work, may 

 belong to L .tomentosa, which we may perhaps regard as the 

 geographical representative in Indo-China of the Malayan 

 Jii. omata. 



Description--//^, epiphytic; rootstock stout, 

 woody ; pseudobulbs remote, wide-ovoid or ovoid-globose, 

 somewhat compressed, 1J-2J in. long. 2-3-leaved. Leaves 



