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ERIA stellata. 
Starry Lria. 
- GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncuiprx. Div. Epidendree. 
ERIA Lindley.—Perianthium lanatum, connivens. Labellum trilobum, 
articulatum cum processu unguiformi column cujus lateribus sepala antica 
-adnascuntur. Pollinia octo. Collectanea Botanica 42. B. inedita, 
_ E. stellata; foliis lanceolatis carnosis 5-nervibus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis, labelli lobo medio acuminato, scapo angulato, ovario sepalis- 
que exterioribus pube ferruginea lanatis. Lindl. 1. c. 
Dendrobium javanicum. Swartz Act. Holm. 1800 p, 247? Willd. sp. 
4.137% 
| Herba parasitica, repens, robusta. Folia 13-2 pedalia, erecta, curnosa, 
_ glaberrima, lanceolata, tri-quinquenervia, bast squamis ovato-lanceolatis, 
__vaginantibus, nervosis circumdata. Scapus 2-pedalis, teres, angulatus, 
 undique pube lanatd, rard, ferrugined obductus. Flores spicati, apice stel- 
latim patentes, luteo-ferruginei, extiis eddem land ac scapus obducti; basi 
_ bracted ovatd, concavd, scariosi, siccd, decidud, ovario longiore, extits villosd 
suffulti.. Perianthium connivens, sepalis apice patentibus, lineari-lanceolatis, 
acuminatis, equalibus, 5-nervibus, exterioribus basi connatis, extis ferrugineo 
lanatis, interioribus glaberrimis : anticis basibus productis cum basi elongata 
columne connatis. Labellum erectum, cum columna parallelum, ejusque 
basi articulatum, ovato-lanceotatum, basi cucullatum, 3-lobum: disco carnoso, 
tricostato: lobis lateralibus abbreviatis, rotundatis, pallidis, venosis: inter- 
medio elongato, acuminato, sepalis breviore. Columna brevis, semiteres. 
_ Gynizus anticus, concaviusculus, apice ovatus. Anthera carnosa, cristata, 
apice dilatata truncata, omnino bilocularis, loculis discretis, bivalvibus. 
Pollinia cuique loculo 4, in paribus duobus, collateralia, basibus ad faciem 
mediam loculi adversis, et materie viscidd connexis, 
This genus has been founded, in the work above cited, 
upon a remarkable plant from Nipal, the Dendrobium 
pubescens of Professor Hooker, and the subject of this 
article. It differs from all the other genera, having the 
flower of Dendrobium, in the number of its pollen masses, 
with the exception of Octomeria, which we have had no 
Opportunity of examining; but which, as an American 
Welle oath i 
