THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 207 



retrofit (scarcely distinguighable from the other perianth-segment.) would be 



wholly anomalous in the alliance. In reality, the lip, compared with the other 

 segments :s very small. The following are approximately the dimensions of the 

 parts of the flower examined by me: sepals 8-8.6 mm long. 2 mm broad; petals 

 6.4 mm long, 7 mm broad; lip 3.4 mm long, 2 mm broad. The lip is thick and 

 apparent ycallose on the sides near the base. The specimen, accompanied bv 

 the usual Cummg label but without number, consists of a single stem (about 1 

 cm m diameter near the top, in the dry state) bearing up and down its sides 

 5 mnorescences, the longest about 9 cm long and near the summit two leave! 

 the largest about 17 cm long, and 1.8 cm wide 



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Eria ringens Reichb. f. in Bonplandia 3 (1855) 222; Lindley in Journ. Linn 

 Soc Bot 3 (850, 55; Reich,, f. in Walp. Ann. 6:275 and in Linnaea 41 (187 ' 

 87; Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind. 5:793; Grant Orch. Burma 148. 



"AS Eriae pubescenti Wight, glabra, bmcteis ovatis acutis, labclli 

 ungue breYiasimo, lamina oblonga acuminata basi rotundata, gynostemii 

 androclmio utrinque semiovato brachiato, angulis anticis medio omnino 

 muticis. Cauhs carnosus bulbosus (cylindraceus ? planus ?) siccus 

 dimidium pollicem latus. Folia oblongoligulata basi cuneata, apice in- 

 aequah acuta, tres quatuorve pollices longa, unum pollicem lata. Spicac 

 oppositifoliae duos tresve pollices longae, pluriflorae. Bracteae duas 

 tresve lmeas longae apiculatae reflexae ovariis pedicellatis subaequales 

 Pengoma ^ longiuscula (tres lineas longa); glaberrima. Mentum ob- 

 tusum. Sepala et tepala lancea acuta ! 2128. Cuming. Phil." Reichb 

 f. in Bonplandia I c. 



E. merrittii Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 331. 



"Pscudobulbs rather stout, cylindrical from a stout rhizome 7-10 

 cm long, about 5 mm thick, 2-3-leaved at the summit. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, about 12 cm long, about 1.5 cm wide, acuminate, acute 

 Peduncle short, about 4 cm long, breaking forth from the upper part of 

 the pseudobulbs. Bracts lanceolate, acute. Flowers white. Lateral 

 sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, about 6-7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide at base 

 Upper sepal linear-lanceolate, about equal to the laterals. Petals narrowly 

 lanceolate acute, about G.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 3-nerved, acute 

 Labellum lanceolate, ecallose, smooth, 4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide at base." 



This species very much resembles Eria retrofleaa Lindl. 



E. ovata Lindley Bot. Reg. (1844), sub t. 29; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip 

 149 and Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 268; Ames Orchidaceae 2 (1908) 195 (exel 

 specimen cited which belongs to E. Elmeri, I think.). 



"FolUs oblongis obtusis basi angustatis, racemis pubescentibus multi- 

 floris, bracteis parvis ovalibus rerlexis, sepalis petalisque acuminatis lab ell o 

 ovato-oblongo mdiviso basi bicaUoso." Lindley I. 



c. 



The type in Lindley s herbarium at Kew is an unnumbered Cuming specimen 

 from the 1 hilippines, consisting of three leaves and one inflorescence There is a 

 drawing of the lip by Lindley showing the two short carinate calli very n ar 



