Eria Maingayi

Hook.f. Ic.Plant . ined .; pseudobulbs tufted fuisiform , leaves 2-3 linear –lanceolate thickly coriaceous , racemes very slender lax-fld . puberulous, bracts oblong as long as the very slender pedicels , flowers small , lateral sepals triangular –ovate acute and linear –oblong obtuse petals 5-nerved , mentum stout incurved , hypochile broadly obovate –oblong 3-ridged , base rounded , side lobes rounded crenate small , midlobe orbicular .

PENANG ; on Government Hill , Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1632).

Pseudobulbs 1-1 ½ in . Leaves spreading rigidly horizontally . Racemes 2 in ., flowering nearly to the base ; bracts 1/3 in . long , nerved ;sepals about 1/8 in.long.-Reichenbach has given this the mss. Name of Eria anthomeniaca (in Herb. Kew), the application of which I fail to see.