62 piiorESSOR lindley's contributions to 



species are only the following, easily known by their dense spikes 

 of small woolly flowers, the lateral sepals of which have scarcely 

 any obliquity. 



279. E. stricta, Lindl. Coll Bot. t. 41 B. (E. secundiflora, W. Griff. 

 Not. ill. 302. t. 301.— Mycaranthes stricta, Lo. 63 ; Wight, Ic. 1733.) 



On the Naga hills, on a species of Gordonia at the elevation of 3500 

 feet, W. Griffith ; Darjeehng, Id. ; Malacca, Id. fide cl. Wight ; Sik- 

 kim, at 3000 feet, and Khasija, at 4000 feet, J. D. H. (59). 



280. E. retusa, Rchb. f. in Bonplandia, March 1, 1857. (Phreatia 

 retusa, Lindl. Orch. p. 64. — Dendrolirium retusum, Blume, Bijdr. 351. 

 — Bryobium pubescens, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. no. 145.) 



Java, Zollinger. 



The extrication of this synonymy is due to Prof. Echb. fil. 



281. E. MERGUENSis ; caulibus caespitosis camosis clavatis, foliis pa- 

 pyraceis oblongis basi angustatis apice obliquis uncinulatis, spicis 

 lateralibus elongatis griseo-tomentosis pedunculo evaginulato, floribus 

 (minimis) pilosis, labello trilobo infra isthmum transverse lamellato. 



Mergui, Griffith (1034); Moulmein, Lobb. 



Something like a small specimen of J7. stricta ; but the stems 

 are fleshy and clavate, the flowers much smaller and not secund, 

 and the lip quite diff'erent. 



§ VI. Trichosma, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1842, t. 21. 

 Now that the limits of the genus Eria begin to be understood, 

 I must admit that Prof. Reichenbach is right in reducing to its 

 ranks my genus Trichosma, notwithstanding its very peculiar 

 habit. It will now, therefore, stand as a section, distinguished by 

 its great fleshy anther and long slender 2-leaved stems, resembling 

 those of a gigantic Pleurothallis. 



282. E. suavis. (Trichosma suavis, Lindl. 1. c. — Eria cylindripoda. 



Griff. Notul. iii. 299.) 

 Khasija, Griffith (1013, 1258); J. D. H. Sf T. T. (144) ; Sikkim at 5000- 



6000feet, J^. I>.H. (144). 



§ YII. Htmenebia. 



This name is proposed for all those species which, to a fleshy 

 somewhat shapeless stem with a few thin leaves, add a many- 

 flowered inflorescence that is smooth or nearly so. Possibly it 

 might be subdivided into those with a dense inflorescence like 

 JE^. convallarioides and pumila, and such as have the thin racemes 

 oi E. hractescens. 



