Eria oligantha

Hook .f. Ic. Plant . ined ; nearly glabrous , leaves 2 – 2 ½ in . thickly coriaceous ovate –lanceolate glabrous above tomentose beneath ,flowers 1-2 sessile glabrescent , sepals ovate acuminate 5-7-nerved , petals narrowly oblanceolate acute 3-nerved , lip narrow ,claw long pubescent , limb half as long obovate villous .

PENANG, Maingay (Kew Distrib . 1629).
Stem 10-12 in., curved, as thick as a goose-quill , tips hirsute . Leaves with strongly recurved margins when dry , not recurved . Flowers ½ in. long, at first hirsute ; mentum as long as the sepals ; side lobes of lip narrow , rounded ; terminal thickened , creunulate; column and its foot pubescent.