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LEAVITT. 



labor of identifying new collections in a group of some hundreds of 

 species, whose descriptions are widely scattered in literature, in which 

 identification has ordinarily been very difficult or even, except under 

 favorable conditions as regards library and herbarium, impossible. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, DIAGNOSES OT NEW SPECIES, KTC. 



Before undertaking the consecutive description of the species, I may 



enter certain notes which have been made in my study of the genus; here, 

 also, 1 have placed the required Latin characterizations of new species, 

 citations of specimens, original descriptions, the bibliography of old 

 species, etc. 



Measurements in diagnoses of new species are taken from dried specimens. 

 When single measurements are given they are maxima rather than averages. 

 Leaf-lengths do not include sheathing bases. Lengths of racemes are exclusive 

 of the peduncle. The height of the column is generally taken without the anther- 

 cap. Drawings are invariably from the camera lucida. 



ERIA Lindley. 



"Perianihium lanatum, connivens. Labellum trilobum, articulatum 

 cmn proceasu anguiformi columnae cujus lateribua sepala antica adnas- 

 cuntur. PolKnia octo." Lindley Bot. Reg. (1825) t. 90J 4 . 



"Sepal,, subaequalia, posticum tiberum v. basi breviter rarius alte cum 

 caeteris connatum, latereUia saepius latiora basi pedi columnae adnata, 

 mentum breve v. rarius calcarifonne Eormantia, superne libera v. rarius 

 .■dims connata. Peiak sepalo postico subconformia. Labetttm ad api- 

 cem pedis columnae basi contractum, rarius articulatum, incumbens, 

 superne patens, Integrum v. utrinque lobo laterali auctum. Golumna 

 brevis, lata, antice cava saepeque anguste 2-alata, basi in pedem producta; 

 clinandrium margine integrum v. vix antice 2-angulatum et postiee 1- 

 dentatum. Anthem terminalis, operculars, incumbens, interdum valde 

 convexa v. obtuse conica, loculis 2 distinct is imperfecte 4-locellatis ; 

 pollmia 8, cerea, in quoque loculo 4, pyriformia v. late ovoidea, parum 

 compressa, acutiuscula v. acuminata, in faseiculos 2 visco parco cohaer- 

 entia. Capsula oblonga v. linearis, erostris.-- Herbae epiphyticae v. rarius 

 terrestres, caulibus secus rhizoma saepius confertis pseudobulbosis, \. 

 longiusculis saepe carnosis 2- oo-foliatis, v. rarius 1-foliatis. Pedun- 

 culi v. scapi pseudoterminales v. laterales, nee directe rhizomati affixi, 

 simplices, racemiferi v. interdum 1-ilori. Flores parvi mediocres V. 

 rarius majusculi, secus rhacliin racemi sparsi v. rarissime distichi. Brac- 

 teae parvae v. angustae." Bentham & Hooker Gen. PL 3 (1883) 509. 



S UROSTACHYA Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (185!)) SO; Bentham 

 1- c. 18 (1881) 303; Bentham & Hooker Gen. PI. 3: 510; Pfitzer in Bugler I 

 Prantl Nat. Pflanaenfam. 2« (1880) 175; J. J. Smith Orel.. Java 398. 



"The caulescent species with numerous leaves, and long racemes or 

 panicles of flowers, without the woolly lip-appendages of § Eriura, form 



