ORCHIDACE^ 



nerved, shining above. Peduncles two, about 6 cm. long, situ- 

 ated at or near the summit of the pseudobulb, markedly shorter 

 than the leaves, very slender, arcuate, densely white lanate es- 

 pecially above, only the terminal quarter bearing flowers. Bracts 

 2-3 mm. long and about as broad, orbicular, lanate on both sur- 

 faces ; sterile bract solitary, clasping the peduncle 1-2 cm. below 

 the inflorescence; floriferous bracts crowded, reflexed, convex. 

 Flower ±1.8 cm. from the tip of the dorsal sepal to the tips of 

 the reflexed lateral sepals, 1.7 cm. broad in the dried specimen, 

 fleshy, spreading. Sepals densely white lanate without (some- 

 what so within). Lateral sepals ±8 mm. long, 4.2 mm. broad 

 near the base, reflexed, lance-ovate, oblique, concave, apex very 

 strongly thickened, dorsally subcarinate, three-nerved. Dorsal 

 sepal ±9.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, elliptic-oblong, very similar 

 to the lateral sepals but less thickened at the apex. Petals about 

 8 mm. long, 3 mm. wide near the apex, oblanceolate, slightly 

 oblique, broadly rounded and thickened at the apex, three-nerved. 

 Lip minute, very fleshy, ±2.7 mm. long, 1.6 mm. broad, 1.7 mm. 

 thick through the anterior half, oblong-obovoid, longitudinally 

 grooved through the middle, somewhat complanate on the sides, 

 flattened hemispherical at the apex, narrowed near the base where 

 it is adnate to the column, united with the lateral sepals from its 

 base nearly to its extremity, subquadrate in transverse section. 

 Column about 5 mm. long, slender, arcuate, flattened on the 

 interior lanate surface; androclinium more or less flaring. 



A similar but more robust budded specimen, Clemens 181, 

 shows long fusiform pseudobulbs ±16 cm. long, with about five 

 leaves near the summit, one leaf measuring about 14 cm. long, 

 3 cm. wide. 



This peculiar plant is outwardly a close ally of Eria pulchella 

 Lindl., but the latter species lacks the extraordinary fleshy 



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