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ERIA LONGISPICA. | 
Borneo. 
. ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EPIDENDREAE. 
Eri, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 509 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind. 
vol. v. p. 785. 
Eria longispica, Rolfe; species H. latifoliae, Reichb. f., affinis sed floribus 
majoribus, labello cireumscriptione orbiculari, nec obovato differt. 
Herba epiphytica, epseudobulbifera. Caules erecti, robusti, circa 15 em. alti, 
6-8-phylli. Folia disticha, coriacea, ligulato-oblonga, apice obliqua, 
inaequaliter biloba et acuta, 30-40 cm. longa, 3-4°5 em. lata. Racemi 
terminales, graciles, valde e!ongati, albido-pubescentes, 25-40 em. longi, 
densiflori. Bracteae reflexae, ovatae, acutae vel acuminatae, 2 mm. longae. 
Pedicelli graciles, 7-8 mm. longi, tomentosi. Sepalum posticum elliptico- 
oblongum, obtusum, 5 mm. longum; sepala lateralia oblique ovata, obtusa, 
5 mm. longa, 4 mm. lata, reflexa. Petala lineari-oblonga, obtusa, 4 mm. 
longa. Labellum trilobum, orbiculare, 5 mm. longum, 5 mm. Jatum; lobi 
laterales lati, subobtusi; Jobus intermedius parvus, quadratus, obtuse 
bilobus, interdum denticulatus; discus tricarinatus, carinis lateralibus 
oblongis glabris, carina media farinacea, apice in cristam orbicularem 
expansa. Columna brevissima, alis brevibus truncatis, 
The species of Eria are difficnlt to discriminate, because 
so many of them are only known from dried specimens, and 
the crests and other details of the lip are not readily restored 
by maceration after they have been dried. The present 
species has for some years been in cultivation at Kew, though 
not under its present name, a plant having been presented 
to the establishment by Messrs. Linden, of Brussels, in 1898. 
It had, however, been previously submitted for determination 
by them in September, 1893, with the record that it had 
been imported from Borneo. It belungs to the section 
Eriura as defined by Lindley (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. 
p. 55), and is most nearly allied to a species originally 
described by Blume as Mycaranthes latifolia (Bijdr. p. 353). 
When Blume’s genus Mycaranthes was reduced by Lindley 
to a section of ELria he excluded M. latifolia as belonging 
to Hriura though, since it is the only species figured, it might 
have been considered typical of the section Mycaranthes, 
DecemBeER, 1907. 
