220 ORCHIDES. 



1346. CJARIIVA Lindl. 

 B. Reg. XXI. 1835 sub 1999. 



A. Lindleyana et W. J. Hookeriana. 



Bot. Reg. 1. c. : EARINA (£aptvo?). Sepala erecta . aequalia, acuta, membranacea, 

 carinata. Petala carnosa , obtusata, Labellum carnosum , posticum, cucullatum, trilo- 

 lobura, disco nudo . cura columna continuum et subparallelum. Columna teres , nana, 

 stigmatis obliqui labio inferiore prominulo. Clinandrium proclive. Anthera bilocularis. 

 Pollinia 4, per paria coharentia , collaieralia. Herba caulescens, rhizomate ariiculato- 

 repente. Folia linearia, disiicha, vaginaniia. Flores parvi , paniculati, bracteis carii- 

 agineis . striatis. cucullatis (..auriculatis" Hook. Ic. V. 631.) Lindl. B. M. Comp. II. 24. 

 377. — Malaxidea related to Coelogyne and Dilocbia, of ihe latter of which in particular 

 it has much the habits on a small scale. From ihe former its wingless column and 

 from the latter ihe number of its pollermasses, sufficiently distinguish it. independly of 

 oiher points of difference. 



1. EARLNA MUCRONATA Lindl. in Bot. Reg. XXL 1835 sub 1999: Epidendrum autum- 

 nale Forst. Prodr. n. 319. Cymbidium autumnale Sw, nov. act. ups. 672. — W. Sp. 

 pl. IIL 98, — Nova Zelandia (hab. s. sp. comm. cel. Cunningh). — Rhizomata inier 

 muscos morluos .repentia , articulata. Caules ascendentes, palmares pedalesque, 

 pcnnae corvinae crassitudine, maculati , basi vestigiis laceris vaginarura vestiti. Folia 

 lineari - ensiformia , apice leviter obliqua , mucronulata. Flores e bracteis rigidis 

 cucullatis mucronatis emergentes , parvi, ovario recto costato bracteolarum longitu- 

 dine. Sepala omnia libera , angusta, mucronata . carinulata. Petala latiora, carnosa, 

 obtusiora , aequilonga. Labellura posticura carnosum , cucullatum , innppendiculalum, 

 hasi liberum, cum colurana continuura et parallelum , trilobum . nudura ; lobo inier- 

 medio bipariito laciniis oblongis crenulatis mucrone interraedio. Columna suberecia 

 nana , antice teres , clinandrio subcucullato membranaceo- marginato ; stigmate ex- 

 cavato, rostello obtuso. Anthera ovata , 2 locularis. Pollinia4, per paria cohae- 

 rentia , cereacea, collateralia , materie viscida rostello adhaerentia. 



Growing coramonly in moist woods upon the shores of the Bay of Islands, Ncw 

 Zeeland, on mossy rocky banks and on ihe limbs of trees , flowering in Sepl. Oct., 

 which in New Zeeland is the season of spring. Mr. Cunningham. 



Bot Mag. Comp, II. 376: A. Rich. Fol. Nov. Zel. p, 169. — New Zeeland North. 

 Island) 1769. Sir Joseph Banks. Moist woods, on rocks and trees. Bay of Islands, 

 Wangaroa eic. 1826, A. Cunningham 1834. — R. Cunningham (Mjddle Island) Dusky 

 Bay 1773, G. Forster. 



All. Cunningh. in Hook. Journ Bot. III. 300. 1841 : Beyond the trunks of the larger 

 trees to my joy a charraing plant of E. ra. , with very narroV eiongated leaves bea- 

 ring white flowers , which were however beyond my reach , but of which I shall 

 secure planis on my reiurn again lo the colony. New Zeeland up the Wycaddy river. 



Hook. Ic. V. 432, 1842. 



2. EARINA SUAVEOLENS Lindl. Bot, Reg. XXIX. 1843. Misc. 88. Spica oblonga densa 

 basi subcomposita , labello transverso , rhombeo . versus basin bicalloso obsolete iri- 

 lobo lacinia intermedia rotundaia undulata emarginaia. 



New Zceland. Bidwill Loddiges. A tuftcd species wiih stems 4 — 12" high, clothed 

 wiih narrow disiichous somewhat rigid leaves aboui 3 " long, The stems are termi- 

 nated by dense oblotig spikes of white flowers , having a double spot on the lip, 



It grows ncar Roturoa in New Zeeland on trees not very densely covered with 

 leaves. Very rare ; exceedingly beautiful , most delicionsly perfumed. From E, mu- 

 cronata it differs in ih<; forra of the lip and the size of the flowers , which are col- 

 lecied in dense spikcs, and not in slender branchcd ones. 



