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ERIA CINNABARINA RoLFE. 
THE CINNABAR-COLOURED ERIA. 
ERIA. Sepala subaequalia, posticum liberum v. basi breviter, rarius alte, cum cceteris connatum, lateralia 
saepius latiora basi pedi columnae adnata, mentum breve v. rarius calcariforme formantia, superne libera v. rarius 
altius connata. Petala sepalo postico subconformia. Labellum ad apicem pedis columnae basi contractum, rarius 
articulatum, incumbens, superne patens, integrum v. utrinque lobo laterali auctum, Columna brevis, lata, antice cava 
saepeque anguste bialata, basi in pedem producta; clinandrium margine integrum v. vix antice biangulatum et postice 
unidentatum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, interdum valde convexa v. obtuse conica, loculis 2 distinctis 
imperfecte quadrilocellatis ; pollinia 8, cerea, in quoque loculo 4, pyriformia v. late ovoidea, parum compressa, 
acutiuscula v. acuminata, in fasciculos 2 disco parvo cohaerentia, Capsula oblonga v. linearis, erostris. 
Herbae epiphyticae v. rarius terrestres, caulibus secus rhizoma saepius confertis pseudobulbosis, v. longiusculis 
saepe carnosis bi-multifoliatis, v. rarius unifoliatis. Pedunculi v. scapi pseudoterminales v. laterales, nec directe rhi- 
zomati affixi, simplices, racemiferi v. interdum uniflori. Flores parvi, mediocres vy. rarius majusculi, secus rachin 
racemi sparsi v. rarissime distichi. Bracteae parvae v. angustae. 
Species ad 120, Indiae orientalis, Chinae australis et Archipelagi Malayani incolae. 
Eria LINDL. in Bot. Reg., XI, t. 904. — BENTH. et Hook. F. Gen. Plant., Ill, p. 509. 
Eria cinnabarina. Pseudobulbi ovoidei, subcompressi, di-triphylli, 1-1 1/4 poll. longi. Folia oblongo-linearia, 
obtusa v. subacuta, terminalia, 5-6 1/2 poll. longa, 6-8 lin. lata. Racemi subterminales, circa 6-flori, 3-4 poll. longi. 
Bracteae lanceolato-oblongae, subacutae, 5-9 poll. longae. Pedicelli 3/4-1 poll. longi. Sepala lineari-lanceolata, sub- 
obtusa, 7-8 lin. longa, 11/2 lin. lata; lateralia in mentum conicum 3 lin. longum producta. Petala sepalis conformia, 
6-7 lin. longa. Labellum trilobum, 7 lin. longum, 3 lin. latum; lobis lateralibus semi-oblongis obtusis, intermedio 
elliptico-oblongo obtuso, disco basi tricarinato carinis integris lateralibus majoribus, apice quinquecarinato carinis 
crenulatis. Columna brevis, 2 lin, longa. 
Eria cinnabarina ROLFE in Kew Bulletin, 1894, p. 183. — Orchid Review, II, p. 198. — Fourn. des Orch., 
V5 Py150. 
@he position of the genus Eria among cultivated Orchids may be 
| readily inferred by the fact that hitherto none of its many species has 
found a place in the pages of the Lzndenia, though a few species find a 
eae in most collections where botanical Orchids are cultivated. The reason 
for this comparitive neglect is that most of them have small flowers of rather dull 
colour, and consequently compare rather unfavourably with some of the more 
popular genera. 
There are however one or two exceptions, and none more so than the 
one illustrated in the annexed plate, at least so far as colour is concerned. The 
flowers, as well as the whole raceme, rachis, pedicels, and bracts are of a deep 
cinnabar-orange colour, which, so far as I can ascertain is not found in any 
other described species of the section of the genus to which it belongs. 
It belongs to the section Hymenaria, and, so far as structure is concerned, 
its affinity is with the Indian E. myristiciformis Hoox. F. and E. bractescens LinDL., 
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