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AMKS, 
narrowly lanceolate, acute, abont (),5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, ^-nerved, 
acnte. Labellum lanceolate^ eeallose, t^mooth, 4 iiini. long, 1.5 nun. wide 
at base. 
At 3,050 ft. alt. on Mount Haleon, Jnne 15-27, lUUO, ,1/. L. Merritt (No. 
4357). • ■ 
Unfortuiiatoly the material on wliich the abovo description is based is not in 
good condition. 
Eria vulplna Rcichb. f. Bonpl. 3: 222 (1855). 
Epiphyte in forest at 2,300 ft. alt. on Mount Haleon, flowers purplish, bracts 
yellowish red, Nov. 10, IDOti, Merrill (No. 5501). 
Endemic in the Philippines. Originally collected by H. Cuming on the island 
of Bohol. 
Eria (§ Hymenerra) Woodiana Ames sp. nov. 
Allied to E. ovata Lindl. Stems about 18 cm. long, leafy at the 
;<mnmit, closely sheathed. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, up to 3 dm. long, 
3-4.5 cm, wide, acute. Inflorescence racemose, much shorter than the 
leaves. Flowers pale yellow. Peduncles about 1 dm. long, floriferous 
nearly to the base, breaking forth from the leafy summit of the pseu- 
dobul])S. Bracts ligulatc, acute, about 5 mm. long. Lateral sepals oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, 6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Upper sepal narrowly lanceo- 
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late, C.5 mm. long. Petals narr.owly lanceolate, subacute, 5.5 nun. long, 
1.5 mm. wide Labellum 3-nerved, about 4 mm. long, orbicular at base, 
contracted at about the middle into the oblong, o])tuse, apical half, 
monocallose at base in front of the claw. 
Epiphyte in ridge forest at 3,000 ft. alt. on Mount Haleon, No. 10, lOOt), 
Merrill (No. 5400). 
PHREATIA Limll. 
Phreatia sulcata (Bl.) J. J. Smith Orch. Java 50o (lOOr)) .—Dendrolirium 
sulcatum Bl. Bijdr. 347 (1825).— LYia sulcata Lindl. Orch. PI. bU (1830). 
Epipliyte in ridge forest at 6,000 ft. alt. on Mount Haleon, flowers white, with 
faint odor, Nov. 15, 1006, Merrill (No. 5765). 
Java and Sumatra. 
Phreatia prorepens Tveichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. 54 (1878). 
Epiphyte in ridge forest at abont 5,800 ft. alt. on ]\Iount Ualcon, flowers \\hite, 
fragrant, Nov. 15, 1006, Merrill (Nos. 5758, 5814, 0100). 
Tliis very rare species was originally collected by tlie expedition commanded 
by Captain Wilkes which visited the Philippines between the years 18;i8 and 
1842. One of the specimens collected by this expedition is preserved in the Gray 
Herbarium and bears the name Eria {Phreatia) prorepe^is in II. G. Reichcnhach's 
hand. The material on which my determination is based agrees with this speci- 
men in essential details. 
Endemic in the Philippines. 
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