802 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eria.' 



scape, sepals short thick spreading from the base tomentose on both 

 surfaces, mentum 0, lip small sessile entire orbicular or subcordate, disk 

 thickened pubescent, column long stout, foot very short with a large purple 

 shining tubercle at the base. Walp. Ann. vi. 271. E. discolor, Lindl. i 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. I. c. Callostylis rigida, Blume Bijd. 340, f. 74 ; Lindl. 

 Gen. Sc Sp. Orchid. 129. Tylostylis, Blume Fl. Jav. Prcef. vi. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. TENASSERIM, alt. 4000 ft., 

 Parish. PERAK, Scortechini. MALACCA, Cuming. DISTEIB. Siam, Java. 



Psetidobulb 1-pluri-nodal, 2-10 in. long, contracted at both ends. Leaves 

 3-5 in., sessile, obtuse or notched. Scape 2-3 in., base sheathed ; bracts orbicular, 

 coriaceous ; flowers yellow, ^-f in. diam. ; lateral sepals broadly ovate ; petals linear- 

 oblong, tomentose ; lip with a minute claw, mobile (Blume). Very distinct from its 

 congeners in the spreading flowers, lip, and foot of column ; perhaps a distinct 

 section with E. barbata, which also has a mobile lip. 



65. E. sicaria, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 50; pseudobulbs 

 narrowly oblong, leaves linear or linear-lanceolate semi-terete fleshy 

 channelled, scape slender and flowers white-woolly, bracts ovate acuminate, 

 lateral sepals ovate obtuse 5-7-nerved, petals linear- or obovate-oblong 

 5-nerved, mentum obscure, lip shortly broadly clawed, side lobes spreading 

 rounded, midlobe obcordate, disk with a tricrural thickened ridge. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs 1^-2 in. long, from a stout woody rhizome. Leaves 4-6 in., acumi. 

 nate, tapering to the base (dry pustulate). Scape 46 in. ; bracts \ in. ; pedicel 

 with slender ovary f in. ; flowers spreading, | in. across, white with purple markings 

 on the lip. 



66. E. Dayana, Reichb.f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 102 ; pseudobulbs 

 ovoid, leaves 3 linear-lanceolate very coriaceous, raceme lax-fid, tomentose, 

 bracts linear-lanceolate scarioua equalling the lower pedicelled ovaries, 

 sepals triangular tomentose, petals narrower, lip broad, side lobes oblong 

 narrow, midlobe oblong emarginate, callus longitudinally ligulate with 

 retrorse arms at the end. 



EAST INDIES (Hort. Day). 



Allied to E. sicaria, Lindl. Unknown to me. Description from Reichb. f. 



67. E. dasypus, Reiclib. f. in Sot. Zeit. 1864, 415; pseudobulb 

 cylindric, leaves 2-3 narrowly oblanceolate obtuse, racemes lateral slender 

 white-woolly few-fld., bracts broadly ovate apiculate, pedicels slender and 

 ovate oblong obtuse 3-4-uerved sepals woolly, petals oblong 3-nerve.d, lip 

 cuneate-obovate with 3 median ridges, side lobes oblong, almost as long as 

 the transverse midlobe, column long. 



TENASSEBIM ; at Mergui, Parish. 



Pseudobulbs 1^-2 in., as thick as the little finger, erect. Leaves as long. 

 Racemes 1 in., very slender ; bracts membranous, apiculate ; pedicel J in. ; sepals 

 in. ; mentum rounded, subincurved. 



68. E. pellipes, Reickl. f. in Herb. Kew, pseudobulbs small very 

 close set on the creeping rhizome 1-leaved, leaf obtuse very thick terete or 

 subcompressed, scape slender and 1-2 flowers white-woolly, bracts small, 

 lateral sepals triangular-ovate acute 5-nerved, mentum large saccate, petals 

 linear 3-nerved woolly, lip coriaceous subspathulate or linguiform, tip 

 rounded or retuse, back woolly. 



