02 PROFESSOE LINDLET'S CONTBIBXJTIONS TO 



manner. The lip is so dilated and folded near the end as to 

 seem to be 3-lobed. — Possibly A. Brongniart's Oxy anther a mi- 

 crcmtha may be this ; but if so, the inflorescence is taken from 

 another plant, perhaps the Thelasis, which furnished his mag- 

 nified dissections (as Prof. Reichenbach has pointed out to me in 

 conversation). My learned friend's definition of his Eria myo- 

 surus appears to have been taken from an incomplete specimen, 

 for which reason the above specific character is now proposed. 



326. Ph. minutiflora; foliis linearibus coriaceis recurvis equitan- 

 tibus obtusis spicis tenuibus sequalibus, bracteis triangulo-setaceis, 

 labello obovato concave. 



Borneo, Lobb. 



Leaves about 2 inches long. Plowers the smallest in the genus, 

 in an erect very slender spike. Bracts brown, setaceous, broad at 

 the base. 



327. Ph. microtidis ; foliis linearibus coriaceis equitantibus apice 

 acutis recurvis spicis densis angulatis aequalibus, bracteis floribus bre- 

 vioribus, labello orbiculari concavo basi pandurato. 



Java, Lobb. 



Much like a pigmy Microtis, the whole plant not exceeding 

 2 inches in height. Blume's Dendrolirium pusillvm, formerly 

 referred by me to Phreatia (Gren. & Sp. p. 64), seems to be rather an 

 Appendicula, and can have nothing to do with the present species. 



328. Ph. tahitensis ; folio oblongo coriaceo piano oblique bilobo 

 spicae densse multiflorse sequali, scapo trivaginato, mento oblongo 

 obtuso, labelli acuti rhombei longe unguiculati angulis lateralibus 

 runeinatis, bracteis oblougis herbaceis acutis canaliculatis florum 

 longitudine. 



Tahiti, Bidwill. 



Plant between 3 and 4 inches high, of which 1^ inch is occupied 

 by a dense spike whose flowers are the largest in the genus, 

 measuring in their dried state nearly -^th of an inch in length. 

 The lateral sepals are extended into a long blunt chin, which 

 probably led M. Heichenbach to remark, that " here the genera 

 Phreatia and Eria run together." But the cartilaginous bifid 

 rostellum of the former genus is perhaps more strongly marked 

 in this than in any other species. 



Thelasis, Blume. 



The extremely short characters assigned by Prof. Blume, both 



in his * Bijdragen,' and in his recent ' Museum Lugd. Bat.,' to the 



species of this curious genus, render all attempts at identifying 



his plants almost hopeless — especially since, in the latter work, 



