Eria.] CXLVIII. OECHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 807 



3-nerved, lip with a long straight claw and small flabelliform limb densely 

 pubescent except the margin. 



PERAK, Scortechlni. 



Stem 6-8 in., us thick as a duck's quill, upper sheaths hirsute. Leaves slightly 

 hairy when young. Peduncle hirsute or glabrescent ; bracts ^-| in. ; mentura half 

 as long as the sepals ; lip straight, limb thick crenate ; column glabrous, foot tumid 

 villous. The smallest species of this sub-section. 



84. E. oils ant ha, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; nearly glabrous, leaves 

 2-2| in. thickly coriaceous ovate-lanceolate glabrous above tomentose 

 beneath, flowers 1-2 sessile glabrescent, sepals ovate acuminate 5-7-nerved, 

 petals narrowly oblanceolate acute 3-nerved, lip narrow, claw long pubes- 

 cent, limb halt' as long obovate villous. 



PENANG, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1629). 



Stem 10-12 in., curved, as thick as a goose-quill, tips hirsute. Leaves with 

 strongly recurved margins when dry, not nerved. Flowers - in. long, at first 

 hirsute ; meutum as long as the sepals ; side lobes of lip narrow, rounded ; terminal 

 thickened, crenulate, emarginate ; column and its foot pubescent. 



85. E. velutina, G. Loddiges in Sot. Eeg. 1840, Misc. 86 ; stem above 

 and leaves softly villous, leaves 2-3 in. thickly coriaceous oblong-lanceolate, 

 flowers few in subsessile spikes, bracts ovate coriaceous, sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, petals linear obtuse 5-nerved, lip very long-clawed, glabrous 

 with a villous cushion on the cuneate obovate limb. Walp. Ann. vi. 274. 



SINGAPORE, Cuming (Sort. Loddiges). MALACCA, Naingay. TENASSEEIM, 

 Heifer (Kew Distrib. 5110). 



Stem 1-2 ft., as thick as a goose -quill. Leaves with strongly revolute margins 

 when dry. /Spz'e*dense-nd. ; mentum as long as the sepals ; side lobes of lip rounded, 

 midlobe short, 2-fid ; foot of column puberulous. The flowers are described in Bot. 

 Reg. as solitary. 



86. E. pulvinata^ Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 56 ; villously hirsute, 

 stems short, leaves l|-2 in. ovate subacute, flowers solitary hirsute, sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, petals linear, lip spathulate emarginate hairy and with a 

 pubescent cushion within the tip. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. 



Described by Liudley from (an evidently enlarged) drawing by Griffith. Parish 

 has a drawing of a plant named E. pulvinata with tufted erect stems 6 in. long 

 swollen at the base, flowers white 2-nate nearly 1 in. long, mentum truncate much 

 shorter than the sepals. 



87. E. tuberosa, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stem short glabrous 

 except the tips and base, leaves 2-2^ in. lanceolate thickly coriaceous 

 glabrous on both surfaces, flowers 2 on a short peduncle hirsute, bracts 

 orbicular or ovate very coriaceous, sepals ovate-lanceolate falcate, petals 

 narrowly spathulate obtuse 3-nerved, lip obovate, axis tomentose, midlobe 

 short broad 2-winged or retuse. 



PERAK, Scortechini. 



Stems 6-8 in., as thick as a goose-quill, curved, tumid base - in. diam. Flowers 

 in. long ; mentum half the length of the sepals, tip swollen ; side lobes of lip 

 obscure; midlobe with thickened nerves, column and its tumid foot pubescent. 



88. E. rufinula, Eeichb. f. in Hamb. Gartenzeit. xix. 13; hirsute, 

 leaves 3-4 in. narrowly lanceolate very coriaceous, spikes short 2-4-fld. 



