Eria.~\ CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) ' 803 



PENANG, and MALACCA on Mount Opbir, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1630/2)! 

 PERAK, Wray. DISTRIB. Borneo (Beccari, No. 483). 



PseiidobiMs o-| in., sessile, more or less tomeutose, conic or subglobose. Leaves 

 2-3 in., straight or curved, smooth, thick and spongy; basal sheaths short, woolly. 

 Scape equalling the leaf, erect ; peduncle with ovary about | in., lengthening to 

 1J in fruit ; sepals about in. long ; column very short ; capsule f in., narrowly 

 ellipsoid. 



** Pseudobulbs large. Flowers brown-tomentose. 



69. E. barbata, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 270; pseudobulbs 

 broadly ovoid 2-leaved, leaves large petioled lanceolate, scape and pedicels 

 very long, bracts large, lateral sepals lanceolate falcate 5-7 nerved, mentum 

 incurved, petals very narrow, lip stipitate narrowly lanceolate Erioidea, 

 Griff. It. Notes 83. Tainia barbata, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1857, 68. 



KHASIA HILLS ; in the Suniassee Valley, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5297); Shillong, 

 alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. 



Pseudobulbs 2 in. long and broad. Leaves 12-14 in., plicate, long-acuminate. 

 Scape 3 ft., very stout below, pubescent ; bracts -1 in., lanceolate ; flowers distant ; 

 pedicels 1 in., lengthening in fruit ; sepals f in. long, yellow tessellated with blood- 

 red (Griff.}, dorsal linear ; petals red-purple, tip spathulate ; lip tremulous (Griff.), 

 revolute, strongly nerved, tip scabrid ; column stout ; pollinia broadly pyriform, 

 attached to a stiti' viscus. Capsule 1 in., narrowly oblong. 



70. E. tomentosa, Hook. f. ; pseudobulbs large ovoid, leaves few 

 elliptic-oblong very thick, scape terminal very stout and raceme brown- 

 villpus, bracts very large, pedicels with the long ovary 1-1| in., sepals 

 coriaceous falcate lanceolate, mentum large incurved, petals oblanceolate, 

 lip oblong strongly nerved, claw broad, side lobes narrow, midlobe clawed 

 subquadrately cordate. E. ornata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 48 (not 

 of Gen. 4- Sp. Orchid.). E. flava, Wall. Cat. 1973/2 (in part). Epi- 

 dendrum tomentosurn, Kcenig in Retz. Obs. vi. 53. 



SILHET, Wallich. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 3-4000 ft., and CHITTAGONG, at 

 Seetakoond, J. D. H. Sf T. T. (E. ornata). TENASSEKIM (Ic. in Herb. Lindl. 

 Sf Parish). 



Pseudobulbs 2-4 in., from a very stout woody rhizome, 3-4-leaved when young. 

 Leaves 3-6 by 1J-3 in., nerveless, smooth and almost spongy, contracted into a very 

 thick petiole. Scape 612 in., as thick as a goose-quill or less, base with short coria- 

 ceous sheaths ; rachis of raceme stout, scarred after fruiting ; bracts 1 in. and less, 

 oblong or lanceolate, not reflexed, coarsely veined with a broad thickened roughened 

 central area from the base to the apiculate tip. This differs from the Philippine 

 Island jE. ornata in the much shorter bracts and lip. 



*** Pseudobulbs very small or 0. (See also 68. E. pellipes ) 



71. E. Thwaitesii, HooJc.f.; pale tomentose all over, rhizome very 

 stout with short 3-7-leaved branches, leaves linear-lanceolate subacute 

 thickly coriaceous, scapes 1-2 terminal lax-fld., bracts small, flowers small 

 coriaceous, lateral sepals broad obtuse, petals linear subacute, lip tongue- 

 shaped recurved fleshy tomentose, side lobes very small. E. velutina, 

 Thwaites Enum. 299 (not of Lodd.). 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



Rhizome as thick as a swan's quill, internodes very short ; sheaths woolly. 

 Leaves 2-4 in., often subfalcate or oblanceolate, midrib distinct. Scape with raceme 

 3-4 in., suberect; bracts ^ in., oblong, obtuse, woolly ; pedicels very short ; sepals 

 in. long, yellow. Capsule \ in. 



