206 LEAVITT. 



Scapes axillary near the summit of the steins, slender, arcuate, many- 

 flowered, 2^-3 inches long. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 1-1-j lin. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 j lin. long. Petals 

 lanceolate-linear, acuminate, l| lin. long. Lip entire, ovate-lanceolate, 



acute, strongly 3-nerved, 1 lin. long. Column rather stout, about \ lin. 

 long. Mentum very short." Bolfe I. c. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Ranajao, Elmer V,05, May, 1906, a tufted 

 epiphyte, Mowers yellowish, altitude (500 in. 



The following species is described from a single plant, originally confused 

 with E. longicruris on one of the sheets above cited : 



E. racemosa sp. now 



Caulis cylindraceus, in sicco plus minus 5 mm in diametro, vaginis 

 papyraccis hixis fubularibus aliquid oblique tnmcatis 5 cm longis vestitus. 

 Folia 7, ad sumnium caulem conferta, hnuinis lanceolatis, ad 12 cm longis 

 et 1.7 cm latis, obtusiusculis. Inflorescentiae 1, oppositifoliae, ad 14 cm 

 longae, pedvnculo breve, ralidiusculo, racemo laxe plurifloro, plus minus 

 2 cm in diametro, hracteis 5 mm longis. Ovarium cum pedicello per- 

 gracile, pubescens pilis rufis, plus minus 7 mm longum. Mentum breve. 

 Scpala ligulata, obtusa, 8-9 mm longa, dorsalc aliquid lanceolatum, 2 

 mm latum, lalcralia falcata, 8.5 mm lata, retain ligulata, obtusa, 7-8 

 mm longa, 1.5 mm lata. Labcllum ovato-oblongum, plus minus 4 mm 

 longum, 2 mm latum ad basim rotundatum; calli 3, carinati, duo prom- 

 inentes 1 mm a basi labelli, inter eos unus humilis super venam mediam. 

 Columna gracilis, 1.5 mm alta, pedi aequilonga. 



Type specimen found upon sheet with Eria longicruris, collected by M earns & 

 Hutchinson on Mount Malindang, Province of Misamis, Mindanao, May, 1906, 

 For. Bur. J t 609. 



Cuming's collections in the Philippines gave in the hands of Reichenbach f. 

 and of Lindley two or perhaps three species in this section. The descriptions 

 are highly inadequate. What Reichenbach's Eria ringens is, can not certainly 

 be known until his type can be seen, if it is still in existence when his herbarium 

 is opened. Cuming's no. 2128 is to be found in several herbaria, but it may 

 possibly have been originally a mixture, since confusion is easy in a group like 

 this. Reichenbach says x that his species is repeated in Lindley's Eria retroflexa. 



E. retroflexa Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Rot. 3 (1859) 60; Ames Orchidaceae 

 2 (1908) 197. 



"Foliis anguste oblongis spicis tenuibus duplo longioribus, hracteis 

 oblongis glabris retroflexis, floribus glabris, sepalis petalis labelloque 

 subaequalibus ovatis acutis." Lindley /. c. 



Fortunately the type of this species is accessible in the Lindley herbarium. 

 I have taken a careful camera lucida drawing from a flower, which is reproduced 

 below (fig. 7). The floral structure disagrees very essentially with Lindley's 

 drawing on the sheet, and with the original description, which was written, I 

 suspect, at second hand, that is from the erroneous drawing rather than from 

 the flowers of the plant itself. Such a labellum as Lindley ascribes to Eria 



1 Linnaoa 41 :87. 



