Eria muscicola

Lindl. in Journ .Linn. soc . iii. 47 ; leaves 2-3 petioled oblanceolate apiculate , scape and raceme longer than the leaves , flowers very small , bracts ovate or lanceolate , sepals lanceolate finely acuminate 1-3 nerved , lateral falcate , petals narrowly lanceolate or slightly dilated in the middle . dendrobium muscicola , Lindl. in Wall. Cat. . 2017 ; Gen . & Sp . Orchid . 75.

NEPAL , Wallich . KHASIA MTS ., alt. 3- 4000 ft. , Griffith , & c. TENASSERIM , Parish . CEYLON ; Central Province , alt . 5-7000 ft., Gardner .

Very like a small state of Eria . Dalzellii ( with which Reichb. is disposed to unite it ) , but the lip is never panduriform . There may be more than one species here . Wallich’s (imperfect ) specimens are very small –flowered . I do not share Lindley’s doubts (Journ. Lin. Soc. l.c. ) as to their being from Nepal, for the specimens bear ( in his own writing ) the date of 1821 , the year in which Wallich was in that country . In Tenasserim specimens the lip has very narrow side lobes about the middle , and an otuse tip. In the Ceylon ones the flowers are larger ( sepals ¼ -1/3 in.) and lip ovate-lanceolate , subacute , margins waved. The khasiaones are in fuit only , capsule 1/5 in., pyriform .