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Dendrobium sp. 
Jfaterial not suflk-iwit for description. 
Epiphyte at 5,000 ft. n\t, on Mount llalcun, Nov. 20, 1!)06, Merrill {No. 
5577). 
Tlie paucity of Dcndrohium spooioH in the colloctions from Mount Halcon and 
its ncigliborliood is noteworthy. 
ERIA Lindl. 
Eria aerldostachya lieichb. f. ex Lindl. Juuin. Liiui. Soc. 3: 48 (1850); 
Keichb. f. in Seem. Fl. Vit. 301. 
Epiphyte at about 6,400 ft. alt. on Mo\int lialeon, flowers brown-purple, odor- 
less, Nov. 15, 11)00, Merrill (No. 551S). 
Philippines and Fiji Islands; also aseriijed to Java and the ]\Ialay Peninsula. 
f Several cloaely allied species are likely to have beeu confused iu the literature of . 
' distribution under tlie name E. aeridostachya. Lindley's plant and Ueielieubach's 
Seeniann plant agree. 
Eria (§ Trichotosia) binabayensis Amos sp. nov. 
Allied to E. olifjantlia Ifook. f. Plants ratlicr stout, 4-5 dm. tall. 
Stems about 5 mm. in diameter. Leaves oblong-laneeolate, tapering 
gradually toward the point, about 1 dm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, rigid, 
coriacoouR, pubosoont. Inflorescence leaf-opposed, clothed with dense, 
cinnabar-red tomentum. Bracts about 1 cm. long. Eaceme short, 3 
cm. long, probably becoming longer as the flowers * develop. Lateral 
scj)als triangular-lanceolate, densely tomentose externally, 1 cm. long, 
about 8 mm. wide at base. Upper sepal oblong, narrower than the 
laterals. Petals linear-spathulate, sidjobtuse, 7-8.5 mm. long, 2 mm. 
wide above the middle. Labellum 1 cm. long, narrowly cuneate at base, 
then gradually dilated to within 2 mm. of the tip, where it is con- 
stricted and about 4 mm. wide; above the constriction it is again diluted 
into a transversely oblong, (i-7 mm. wide plate; disc bicarinatc. 
Epiphyte in humid forest along the Binabay River, flowers nearly flesh ccdored, 
the narrow petals white, labellum with yellow-purple spots, Nov. 3, lOOfi, Merrill 
(No. .-ifiCl). 
It is highly probable that the racemes of the specimens examined had not 
attained their full leJigth when collected. At maturity they most likely resemble 
the racemes of such closely allied species as E, vulpina, E. ferox, and E. velutina. 
Eria (§ Hymeneria) compacta Ames. sp. nov. 
Koots elongated, much branched. Pseudobulbs approximate, elon- 
gated-pyriform, about 5 cm. long, about 1 cm. in diameter at base, 
bifoliate. Leaves rigid, coriaceous, oblong-lanccolatc, obtuse, 4.5-5.5 cm. 
long, 10-14 mm. wide. Inflorescence about 3 cm. long. Bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, 5 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, acute, equaling or exceeding 
the pedicels of the flowers. Lateral sepals triangular-lanceolate, acute, (> 
mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide at base. Upper sepal lanceolate, slightly broader 
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