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I have been favoured by Mr. Thwaites with a sketch of this, 

 showing it to be a true Eria. The pollen-masses were previously- 

 unknown to me. A re-examination of the old fragments in my 

 herbarium has shown the lip to be much like that of Eriapau- 

 ciflora, as represented in Wight's plate, but with a shorter 

 middle lobe. There is a small orange- coloured process at the 

 base of the column. The surface of the middle lobe of the lip is 

 rather pulverulent. 



312. E. nutans. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 196. 

 Singapore, Cuming in hort. Loddiges. 



In this plant there is a large tubercle on the foot of the column, 

 which is very short. 



313. E. Khasiana ; foliis binis (?) lanceolatis acutis, floribus geminis 

 glabris, sepalis petalisque siibaequalibus, labello obovato laciniis late- 

 ralibus membranaceis obtusis subfalcatis incurvis intermedia oblata 

 camosa lamella tomentosa in medio lineisque 2 truncatis secus axin 

 pulverulentum, columnae pede omnino nudo. 



Khasija, Gri^th. 



Much like E. nutans Q,nd pauciflora, but entirely different in 

 the form of the lip. 



B. Flowers lateral. 



314. E. clavieauHs, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 219. 

 Khasija, at 4000-5000 feet, J. D. H. \ T. T. (9). 



The specimens in hb. Hooker, are not in flower, so that some 

 uncertainty attends this species. It approaches the last section 

 in having the leaves at the end only of the stem ; and the flowers 

 are almost terminal. 



315. E. mueronata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 2/. 

 Philippines, Cuming. 



Blume's JE. elongata seems to be near this ; but in my plant the 

 little tuft of hairs at the base of the lip cannot be called " tubercu- 

 lum dilatatum dense glanduloso-fimbriatum." Among De Yriese's 

 Sumatra drawings is a "Dendrobium macranthum," with large 

 solitary white flowers, very short lower sepals, and violet spreading 

 bracts, which may be this Eria elongata. What appears to be 

 the same plant exists in the Hookerian herbarium, collected in 

 Tobie Island by Barclay. 



316. E. brachystachya, Rchb.f. in Bonplandia. 

 Philippines, Cuming. 



In this, which is perhaps a variety of the last, there is a small 

 truncated tubercle on the foot of the column. 



