Osyiicer,!.-] CXXVII. ORCHIDE^. 1541 



'Chanelled above, the back convex, attached to the pseudo-bulb by a short stalk. 

 Peduncles erect, filiform, 6 to 12 lines long, with several white scarious bracts at 

 ithe base and close under the flower. Flowers solitary, purplish. Sepals about 

 ■2 lines long, striate, with 3 to 7 dark lines, broad, lanceolate, obtuse, or the dorsal 

 one emarginate, pouch or spur short. Petals about IJ line long, 1-nerved, 

 .narrow, lanceolate, with elongated points and glandular-ciliate margins. 

 (Labellum clawed, 2 lines long, dark-purple, lanceolate with fringed margins, 

 "-2-lobed at the base and a raised rib along the centre. Column white, short, the 

 jprominent wings ending in elongated points. Capsule oblong-ribbed, about 8 

 lines long and li line diameter. — BulhophyUum putpiirascens, Bail. Proc. Roy- 

 Soc. Ql. i. 88. ' 



Hab.: On rocks, Herberton, J. W. R. Stuart; Belleiiden-Kev lUinge, and many other tropical 

 iocalities. 



8. ERIA, Lindl. 



(From the Greek, alluding to the wooliness of the flowers.) 



Sepals free (very rarely connate), adnate to the elongate foot of the column, 

 ;and with it forming a short or long spur. Laljellum sessile on the foot of the 

 ■column and incumbent (sometimes mobile). Anther imperfectly 4 or 8-eelled ; 

 pollen-masses normally 8, pyriform or broadly obovoid, attached in fours by 

 narrow bases to a viscus. Epiphytes of various habits. Flowers never large or 

 ■bright-coloured. 



Species most numerous in tropical Asia. 



.Stems stout, 2 to Sin. high. Leaves about as long as the stems. Flowers 



nearly lin. in diameter in dense furfuraceous racemes 3 to 6in. long . 1. E. Fit::alani. 



Stems slender, 1 to 2it. high. Leaves distichous, IJin. long, oblong 

 emarginate. Flowers glabrous, small in axillary racemes of about 4 lines, 

 whitish 2. £. australiensis. 



1. E. Fitzalani (after E. Fitzalan), F. v. il. in Sou. ScL Bee. ii. 252. 

 Pseudo-bulbous stems sometimes stout and attaining the length of Sin. but 

 usually shorter and ovate-conical, several to a plant, brownish coloured. Leaves 

 lanceolate, the nerves about 9. Pedunclesscarcelylonger than the stem. Racemes 

 furfuraceous, flowers numerous. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, pedicel with ovary longer 

 than the flower. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, lateral ones deltoid. Petals nearly 

 linear, cream coloured, inside. Labellum long as the sepals membranous, 

 glabrous, narrowing towards the base, marked with 3 thin lines, summit 

 •quadrate-ovate. Pollen-masses lenticular, attached in 2 bundles. 



Hab.: On trees in many of the tropical scrubs. 



2. E. australiensis (Australian), Bail. No. 1 Occasional Pap. on (Jl. 

 Flora. Stems in dense clusters, slender, terete, from 1 to 2ft. high, often leafy 

 throughout or the lower half closely covered by the scarious bases of fallen leaves. 

 Xieaves distichous, glossy, oblong and prominently emarginate, about l^^in. long 

 and ym. broad, the keel sharp, the midrib extending beyond the margin in the 

 sinus in the form of a Small bristle. Racemes axillary or lateral, numerous, 

 about 3 or 4 lines long, the persistent bracts ovate-lanceolate 1^ line long, the 

 calyx-tube about the same length. Flowers glabrous, small, greenish-white, 3 to 

 •6 in the raceme ; segments similar or the petals the smaller, ovate, about 1 

 line long ; spur short and blunt. Labellum white marked by faint lines, broadly 

 ovate, strongly recurved, the disk without plates or calli. Column very short and 

 broad, anther-lid sharply conical. Pollen masses claviform, bright-yellow. 

 Oapsule bluntly-ribbed and somewhat compressed, probably about Ifin. long 

 Tvhen ripe, but not quite ripe on the plants examined. 



Hab.: Johnstone Biver, T. L. Bancroft. 



