THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 213 



Miquel El. Ind. Bat. 3:061; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6:269; Naves in Nov. App. 

 Fl. Filip. (1883) 236; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot, II 3 (1893) 366, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1896) 285, 32 (1896) 304; Kranzlin in Schumann & Lauter- 

 baeh Fl. Deutsch. Schutzg. Siidsee 248. 



Octomeria stellata Spreng. Syst, Veg. 4 Cur. Post. (1827) 310. 



"Bulbis oblongis triquetris apice 1-2-phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 

 nervosis, spicis erectis sepalisque exterioribus tenuiter fusco-tomentosis, 

 bracteis membranaceis, labcllo intus membranaceo-crispato, limbo lobo 

 medio ovato acuto." Blumo I. c. 



Luzon, Province of Albay, Loher 6003, flowering in Manila June 6, 1905: 

 Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 3036 Ramos, July 31, 1907, flowers reddish-purple 

 with markings of pure yellow. 



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



"Pseudobulbs about 1 dm long, very stout, compressed, 3 cm or more 

 in diameter; dipbyllous (sometimes bearing more than 2 leaves). 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, about 3 dm long (up to 6 dm), 4-7 cm wide. 

 Peduncle comparatively stout, arising from near the summit of a pseu- 

 dobulb (erect? or drooping?) bearing numerous very large, nearly white, 

 somewhat purple-tinged flowers in a dense, elongated raceme. Raceme 

 about 3 dm long. Bracts triangular-lanceolate, acute, 1.5-2 cm long, 

 about 4 mm wide at base. Ovary very strongly winged, distantly re- 

 sembling an auger on account of the spiral tunings of the wings. 

 Lateral sepals 1.5 cm long, linear-falcate, tapering to an acute apex 

 from a 6 mm broad base. Upper sepal linear, 1.9 cm long, 3 mm wide, 

 tapering gradually to an obtuse tip. Petals similar to the lateral sepals, 

 1.6 cm long, about 4 mm wide at base. Labellum 11-11.5 mm long, 

 3-lobed; lateral lobes comparatively small, curved, about 1 mm long, 1 

 mm wide, obtuse, 5.5 mm from the base of the labellum; middle lobe 7 

 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, oblong, acute. Through the disc of the labellum 

 extend 5 prominent nerves or carinae." 



§ Aeridostachya Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 5 (1890) 786 (§ Aeridostachya Hook, 

 f.. /. c, apparently by adoption of Bentham's typographical error, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Bot, 18:303) ; J. J. Smith Orel). Java 402. 



"Pseudobulb very short, 1-leafcd, sheathed as in Xipliosium . Scape 

 from the base of the pseudobulb, stout, erect. Flowers minute, in dense 

 rusty-tomentose spikes; sepals very short; mentum long, spur-like." 

 Hooker f . I. c. 



E. Aeridostachya Reichb. f. ex hindl., and its allies. 



Lindley applied the name Eria Aeridostachya Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 

 48, as of Reichenbach's creation ("Reichb. f. in litt."), to a garden specimen of 

 Loddiges, originally derived from Batavia. The description is short and from the 

 present standpoint inadequate, though in Lindley's time it may have amply 

 specified the plant for which it was drawn. Nine years later (1868) Reichenbach 

 described one of Seemann's Fiji plants (Seem. Fl. Vit. 301) as answering to this 

 name, which he had first given to a Javan plant of Zollinger and had then 

 communicated to Lindley. Reichenbach's description is fuller, yet does not serve 



