Eria crassicaulis

Hook .f. Ic. Plant . ined .; leaves subterminal elliptic ovate or elliptic –lanceolate , racemes as long slender laxly many-fld. and flowers brown –tomentose , bracts small orbicular , lateral sepals broadly oblong very obtuse 5-nerved , mentum short incurved , petals oblong 3-nerved ,lip banded with purple shortly clawed axis and midlobe furfuraceous as are sometimes the lateral nerves on the disk , column large decurved . Eria clavicaulis ? Lindl . in Journ . Linn. Soc. iii. 59 .

KHASIA MTS .; at Pomrang .alt . 4-5000 ft ., J.D. H. & T.T.

Stem 10-12 in., as thick as the thumb or less ; lower internodes 2-3 in . Leaves 4-6 in., acutely unequally 2-fld , coriaceous , nerved . Racemes as long ; bracts ¼ in.; pedicels with ovary ¾ -1 in.; flowers pale , banded with purple ; lateral sepals 1/3 in., dorsal as long ; pollinia broadly pyriform .-Much less leafy than Eria bambusifolia , more pseudobulbous in habit , with shorter ovary and very differently shaped sepals , petals and lip ; the racemes and bracts of the two are singularly alike . The khasia specimens have only stem , leaves , racemes and bracts ; the description of the flowers is from Kew Garden specimens , and a fine drawing in Herb. Calcutt. Of a form with stem ½ in .diam .