Eria nutans

Lindl .in Bot. Reg. 1840 , Misc. 83 ; in Journ . Linn. Soc. iii. 58;stem terete leafy sheathed throughout , leaves lanceolate acuminate , bracts broad flat fleshy acute , flower pedicelled solitary campanulate glabrescent , lateral sepals broad and petals obtuse , hypochile sessile lunate embracing the small orbicular epichile, disk with a central ridge from base to apex and two short lateral ones . Walp . Ann. Vi. 272 .

PENANG , Maingay ( Kew Distrib. 1679 , 1679/2). PERAK , Scortechini . SINGAPORE , Cuming (Hort . Loddiges ).

Stem 6-10 in. ;sheaths imbricate, acute . Leaves 4-7 in., lanceolate , acuminate . Bracts flesh –cold .; pedicel ¼ -3/4 in .; flowers white tinged with bright red ;tips of petals and lip yellow .-Amongst Scortechini ‘s Peral drawings is one like this (Dendrobium , 892 ), but with ovate-lanceolate spreading side lobes of lip , and a much larger orbicular midlobe .