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145. BRYOBIUM pubescens. 



Under this name I long since distinguished a little green- 

 flowered East Indian Orchidaceous plant which, though in 

 many gardens, has never yet been published, except with a 

 very short character in the Natural System of Botany, ed. 2. 

 It has oval fleshy stems an inch long, closely covered by 

 membranous scales, and terminated by about two narrow- 

 oblong, fleshy, veinless, emarginate leaves. The flowers are 

 a line and a half or two lines in diameter, green, membra- 

 nous, and collected in small stalked heads very much longer 

 than the leaves. The plant is naturally related to Phreatia 

 and Eria, from both which it differs in having the lateral 

 sepals equal at the base and not so prolonged, in conjunction 

 with the foot of the column, as to resemble a spur. Artifi- 

 cially it will stand next Octomeria. 



Bryobium. Flores subvillosi. Sepala conniventia, conformia, lateralia basi 

 sequalia. Petala angustiora et breviora, inter sepala reflexa. Labellum indivi- 

 sum, inappendiculatum, basi constrictum. Columna nana. Pollinia Eria;. 



Sp. 1. B. pubescens. Herba pusilla ; caule carnoso vaginato unciali. 



Folia 2, carnosa, avenia, angustfe oblonga, emarginata. Flores minuti, her- 

 bacei, in capituluin brevipedunculatum congesti, pilis stellatis rigidis ob- 

 tusis aere repletis laxe vestiti. Sepala ovata. Petala tenuiora et dimidio 

 breviora, lineari-lanceolata, truncata. Labellum ovatum, basi lasvissime cor- 



datum. Erias Phreatiaeque affine, sepalis lateralibus basi aequalibus 



diversum. 



146. EPIDENDRUM dichotomum. 



E. dichotomum ; fruticosum, caule fruticoso decumbente filiformi dicbotomo, 

 foliis anguste lanceolatis acutissimis torymbo terminali longioribus, sepalis 

 lineari-lanceolatis, petalis conformibus angustioribus, labello cuniculato 

 cordato obtusiusculo basi bicalloso. 



A green-flowered species obtained from Demerara by 

 Messrs. Loddiges, and found in the Organ Mountains of 

 Brazil by Mr. Gardner, (No. 631.) It has no beauty, but 

 is remarkable for its hard, wiry, forking stem. 



147. ERIA pumila. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 68. 



This little plant has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, who 

 received it without name from the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 

 It has small capitate flowers, membranous, and slightly 

 tinged with pink : the horns of the labellum, the column and 



