806 CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eria. 



brown, cream-cold, within ; pedicel and ovary 1 in.; lateral sepals in., falcate; 

 anther completely 4-celled; capsule strict, in. diam., angled. The long capsule 

 resembles E. nutans. 



Sect. IX. TRICHOTOSIA (see p. 786) . 

 * Large more or less hirsute species. Column long. 



80. E. vestita, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 76; 1845, t. 2 ; stem 

 stout rufously hispid, leaves 5-7 in. thickly coriaceous glabrous above 

 nerveless, spike long laxly many-fld., bracts large ovate, sepals lanceolate, 

 petals linear obtuse, lip oblong shortly clawed 5-7-lamellate. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5807 ; Walp. Ami. vi. 274 ; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 184. Dendrob. vestitum, 

 Wall. Cat. 2005 (in part] ; Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 82. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1626), PERAK, 

 alt. 4200 ft., Curtis. PISTRIB. Borneo. 



Stem as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves tomentose beneath, midrib raised, other- 

 wise nerveless. Spike 6-10 in. ; bracts |-f in. ; sepals within and petals white ; 

 men turn half as long as the sepals ; side lobes of lip narrow, obtuse ; midlobe trans- 

 verse, crisped, emarginate ; column glabrous ; pollinia very slender. Capsule 1 in., 

 oblong, walls very thick. Wallich's 2005 consists of detached stem, leaves and fruit 

 of this ; a good fruiting specimen of E. ferox, and leaves of a third species. Lindley 

 received from him a good specimen of this, and none of ferox. 



81. E. ferox, Blume Mus. Bot: ii. 184 ; stem stout hispidly hirsute, 

 leaves 3-4 in. many-nerved, spikes 2-3 in., bracts ovate -lanceolate, sepals 

 ovate obtuse, petals subspathulate 3-nerved, lip cuneate-spathulate. Tri- 

 chotosia ferox, Blume Bijd. 342 ; Lindl. Gen. <$f Sp. Orchid. 132 ; De 

 Vriese III. t. 9 and t. 11, f. 5. 



PENAXG ; Loll, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1625). PERAK, ascending to 4500 ft., 

 Wray, &c. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



Stem 4-6 ft., very stout. Leaves with very distinct nerves when dry. Flowers 

 rather close set ; 'bracts equalling the flowers ; mentum broad, uncinate, nearly 

 equalling the sepals ; lip very variable, veined, side lobes waved, crenate, midlobe 

 emarginate, with 2-3 rough calli ; disk with 2-3 rugose nerves; foot of column flat, 

 glabrous. 



82. E. monticola, HooJc. f. ; stem below and narrowly lanceolate 

 leaves glabrous, flowers 2-nate on a short peduncle, bracts lanceolate nearly 

 equalling the glabrescent rigid keeled lateral sepals, petals narrowly oblong 

 3-nerved, lip narrowly spathulate pubescent all over within. E. biflora, 

 Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 56 (not of Griff".) . Trichotosia biflora, Griff. 

 Notul. iii. 331, t. 315. 



MALACCA ; Mount Ophir, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib, 1628/2). 



Stem 12-18 in., as thick as a goose-quill, upper sheaths and young leaves hispid 

 or villous. Leaves distinctly nerved when dry. Bracts ovate, acuminate ; mentum 

 not half as long as the sepals ; lip with terminal rounded lobes, disk concave ; foot 

 of column pubescent. Capsule ^ in., subglobosely ellipsoid. Griffith doubtfully 

 refers Blume's T. pauciflora to this, but in that the lip is emarginate. 



Var. ? Jiirsuta ; leaves softly tomentose beneath, flowers hirsute, sepals not keeled, 

 lip broader more obcuneate, lobes broader. Perak, Scortechini. 



83. E. gradHs, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stem slender, leaves 

 l|-2in. narrowly lanceolate glabrous above and "beneath, peduncle in. 

 2-3-fld., bracts ovate-lanceolate, sepals narrow 3-5-nerved, petals linear 



