B. Leaves terete or very narrow. 



271. E. pannea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 79. (E. teretifolia. Griff. 

 Not. iii. 298, t. 300. fig. 2; Itinerary, 202, no. 1185.) 



Bootan, at 3600 feet, on Gordonia, Griffith ; Khasija, at 2000 feet, and 

 Sikkim, on rocks in hot valleys, J. D. H. (62) ; T. Lobb. 



A long creeping slender rhizome bears, at intervals of 2 to 4 

 inches, very short woolly stems, each furnished with from one to 

 four terete fleshy leaves, varying in length from 1 to 6 inches and 

 more, the longest belonging to the Khasija plant. Griffith's 

 figure is thus far bad, that I do not find in his own specimens the 

 lip anything like so wavy as he represents it. I have a very 

 similar plant collected in Borneo ? by T. Lobb, with very short 

 one-leaved pseudobulbs that touch each other, and leaves more 

 linear ; but my solitary flower does not bear examination. 



272. E. siCARiA ; pseudobulbis oblongis 1-2-phyllis, foliis linearibus 

 carnosis acutissimis semiteretibus, racemis lanatis lateralibus multi- 

 floris folio multo brevioribus, bracteis ovatis patentibus intus glabris, 

 floribus albo lanatis, labello apice convexo apiculato. 



Mergui ; Tharapown, in woods, Griffith. 



" Folia carnosa, linearia. Sepala extus albovelutina, intus cum petalis 



viridescentia, lateralia maxima purpureo lineata et notata. Labellum 



albofuscum, intus brunneum disco calloso." Griffith, MSS. 



Very like a narrow-leaved Eriajlava. Leaves about 6 inches 



long, resembling slender stilettos, but tapering at the base into a 



furrowed petiole. My flowers give no more information. 



§ III. XlPHOSITJM, Oriff, 

 Although this supposed genus is undoubtedly an Eria, it may 

 form a section sufficiently distiuguished by its large smooth flowers 

 and distinctly-formed pseudo-Jbulbs. It only differs from Den- 

 droliria in the flowers not being woolly. 



273. E. rosea, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t, 978. 

 Hong Kong, Champion (275). 



This certainly diflers from the next, with which I formerly 

 confounded it, in its broad blunt lip with the lower half much 

 wider than the upper. 



274. E. carinata, Gibson, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 365. (Xiphosium 

 acuminatum, Griffith, 1. c. c. ic. ; Itin. Not. 78, no. 1153 ; Notul. iii. 

 332, t. 316.— E. rosea, M'all. Cat. 7409.) 



Khasija, Griffith; Sylhet, Wallich. 



Differs from the last in having the sepals, petals, and lip acu- 

 minate, the middle lobe of the latter being as wide as the hypochil, 



