The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . se considerations lead to the conclusionthat the old genus Consolida should be re-established, and byno means confounded with Delphinium proper. In a scientific point of view this is a highly interesting species ;but its growth is too feeble and its flowers and leaves too dimi-nutive and straggling to give it any horticultural value. 6. Eria aoervata.* Presented by the Honourable Court of Directors of the EastIndia Company ; among whose collections it often occurs. This little Eria is one of a set scarcely known in Gardens, thepeculiarity of
The journal of the Horticultural Society of London . se considerations lead to the conclusionthat the old genus Consolida should be re-established, and byno means confounded with Delphinium proper. In a scientific point of view this is a highly interesting species ;but its growth is too feeble and its flowers and leaves too dimi-nutive and straggling to give it any horticultural value. 6. Eria aoervata.* Presented by the Honourable Court of Directors of the EastIndia Company ; among whose collections it often occurs. This little Eria is one of a set scarcely known in Gardens, thepeculiarity of which consists in the stem when fully formedbeing nothing more than apseudobulb. These little pseudobulbs * E. acervata; pseudobulbis compressis uno super alterum cumulatiscollo brevi diphyllis, foliis rectis ensatis, racemis axillaribus ,bracteis pluribus super pedunculum ovatis acuminatis levolutis, sepalispetalisq. ovatis acutis, labelli trilobi 3-lamellati lobis acutis intermediooblongo multo longiore.—J. T^. 58 NEW PLAiNTS, Erin FHOM THE i?0CIETV3 GARDEN. 59 aie compressed bodies, in form not unlike a flat flask, and piledone over the other in the singular manner shown in the annexedcut, which represents the plant of its natural size. The flowersare white, smooth, with a slight tinge of green, but otherwisecolourless. The lip is 3-lobed, with 3 elevated parallel lines,the middle lobe the longest, oblong and acute. The fcot of thecolumn is neither chambered nor toothed. In all respects this plant is so entirely an Eria tliat it isreferred to that genus, notwithstanding that, in the flowers ex-amined, the number of its pollen masses was only 4, instead of this may have been accidental. In its 3-ridged lip, andreflexed bracts, it so strongly calls to mind that genus, as toraise a reasonable presumption, that the number of pollen masseswould, in more perfect flowers, be as usual. A hothouse plant of no horticultural interest. 7. OXCIDIUM P
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