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oblanceolatis obtusis crassis, scapis foliis subequilongis filiformibus 
1-floris floribusque majusculis tomentellis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis, 
scentibus instructo. Eria pygmea, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 804. 
Has Malayan Peninsula; Perak, Wray. 
tb 5 poll. longi, tenues, rigidi; vagine ample, nervose, mem- 
b cere, acute, caulibus longior ores. Folium 15-25 poll. longum, 
Foi latum, erectum, crasse coriaceum, sisi sum v. apice emargina- 
capus cauli lateralis, solitarius, basi vaginis lanceolatis in- 
nervia sepalis equilonga; labellum sepalis multoties minus; clinan- 
driam subsessile, valde dilatatum, hippocrepiforme. 
The first specimens that I received of this curious little plant were 
in so imperfect a ira that I failed to make out the structure of the 
column, and from its close resemblance in every pees to the Malayan 
Bria Pleurothallis T incautiously described it as a species of that genus. 
Additional specimens received from Dr. King, collected by Mr. Wray, 
together with a pencil drawing o of the plant by Father Scortechini, 
prove it to be an undoubted Ceratostylis, though not closely allied to 
any hitherto known Indian species. The very minute lip appears to 
figures it as tongue-shaped beyond the sac or spur, with a slight fold 
on each side towards the base, as in the accompanying figures 1 and 2, 
That represented at fig. 3 was taken from a very much decayed flower, 
and cannot be depended on.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and lip. 3. Lip, from a much-damaged flower (to be 
Sale 4. Anther, All enlarged. 
