46 PROPESSOE lindlet's conteibutions to 



subdivisions may be formed : viz. Eeitjea, remarkable for a tuft or 

 two of wool on the axis of the lip, Tbichotosia with coarse 

 shaggy racemes, Cylindeolobus, with 1- or 2-flowered peduncles 

 clothed with smooth coloured membranous bracts below the 

 flowers, and finally Ueostachta, which includes the species that 

 will go into none of the preceding sections. 



§ I. CoNCHiDiUM, Qriffith. 



This group bears the closest analogy to the second section of 

 Stachyobium among Dendrobia, like it, consisting of small stem- 

 less species, with round or depressed pseudo-bulbs, membranous 

 leaves, and flowers solitary or in few-flowered racemes, for the 

 most part very minute. To this last, however, E. hraccata and 

 Idchenora are exceptions. In E. pusilla, microchilos, and others, 

 four of the pollen-masses are rudimentary and easily overlooked : 

 in muscicola and microchilos, indeed, I have only succeeded in 

 finding four ; but their form, tapering downwards into a point, 

 seems to be a safe mark to separate them from the minute Den- 

 drobia. 



257. E. braccata. (Dendrobium braccatutn, L. O. p. 75. — Eria reticosa, 

 Wight, Ic. 1637. — Eria uniflora, Dalzell in Hooker's Journal, iv. 111.) 



Ceylon, Macrae, Gardner (869), Thwaites (235G); Horton plains. 

 Champion (Eria velifera, R. W.) ; Nilgherries, Wight ; comnion on 

 trees in the Western Ghauts, in the rainy season. Stocks (24). 



When this was first published I had been unable to examine 

 the pollen-masses. It varies in the size of the flowers ; those 

 from the "Western Ghauts, preserved among Stocks 's plants, are 

 four times as large as the Cingalese, with much more acuminate 

 sepals and petals. 



258. E. Lichenora. (Lichenora Jerdoniana, Wight, Ic. 1738.) 

 Malabar mountains, Wight. 



This remarkable plant is certainly not different from Eria. 



259. E. nana, Ach. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. xv. 19. 

 Nilgherries, A. Richard, Wight (171, 172). 



My authentic specimens from A. Eichard are identical with 

 "Wight's 171. His 172 is somewhat different, with flowers as 

 large as those in Richard's very bad figure of his Eendrohium mi- 

 croholhon, which looks as if it had been made up from the leaves 

 and flowers of E. nana, while the dissections belonged to another 

 plant. The thin broad obovate leaves of this have, however, no 

 resemblance to Richard's figure. 



