Eria aporina

Hook.f. Ic. Plant .ined.; short , villously hirsute ,leaves ¾ -1 in .close-set lanceolate , flowers solitary sessile , bracts small ovate acute , sepals broadly ovate obtuse 3-nerved ,petals narrowly sub-spathulate 3-nerved , lip broadly clawed pandurifom ciliolate , surfaces glabrous .

PERAK ,alt . 3-4000 ft., King’s Collector ,Scortechini .

Stem 6-8 in ., uniformly clothed with close –set districhous leaves ; internodes ¼ in. Leaves with revolute margins .Flowers ½ in .long , glabrescent ; mentum as long as the sepals ;side lobes of lip small ,rounded ; midlobe larger t han both , emarginate ,crenate ;column and its foot glabrous .-Habit of sect.Aporum of Dendrobium .

** Small species with procumbent or creeping stems ,hirsute , column very short .