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terminal, 2-ceIled, middle dissepiment 2-parted and tence 2-valved: 

 pollen masses 4, incumbent, cohering with granular matter at the 

 base. — Herbs creeping on trees, destitute of a rhizome, but with 

 pseudo-bulbs, always bearing young plants from the side of their own 

 apex : racemes many-flowered from the side of the pseudo-bulbs, 

 sheathed at the base : stigma with the upper Up ovate, drawn out. 



(1) 0. POERECTA. (LmdkJ 

 Ident. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 36. 



Spec. Chab. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, fusiform : leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, plicate : bracts linear : sepals and petals acute : ears of 

 tbe tip obscurely denticulate, 



Pundua. 



GENUS V. ERIA. 

 ^ynandrla monanclria. Sex: Spit: 



Detnv. From JSrion, wool, alluding to the flower. 



Gen. Chae. Sepals half-spreading or closed, unequal, woolly or 

 glabrous externally, lateral ones very unequal at the base, connate 

 with the foot of the column, emulating the spur : petals equal to or 

 less than the upper sepal : lip articulated with the lengthened base 

 of the column, 3-lobed, seldom sub-entire, hooded, with a callous or 

 crested disc : column much drawn out at the base : anther terminal, 

 2-celled, cells obsoletely 4-locellate : pollen masses .8, sometimes 

 altogether free, sometimes cohering with an elastic material imitating 

 a gland. — ^Herlas growing on trees : stems fleshy, sheathed, marked 

 with the scars of the leaves : leaves usually plicate : racemes simple, 

 erect, bracts usually dilated : flowers sometimes conspicuous. 



(1) B. POITSTACHYA. fAck. Rich. J 

 Bent. "Wight's Icon. t. 1635. 



Spec. Chae. Stem thickened, resembling a pseudo-bulb at the 

 base, loosely sheathed : leaves terminal from oblong-eUiptio acute to 

 obovate-elliptic : spikes axillary about the length of the leaves, 

 erect, clothed with short pubescence : bracts lanceolate, acute : 

 sepals ovate, attenuated at the point, pubescent, exceeding the 

 lanceolate petals : lip ovate-lanceolate, about half the length of 

 the petals. 



"Western slopes «f the NeUgherries, flowering in August and 

 Sepember. 



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