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LEAVITT. 



of the column is taken with the operculum removed. Drawings are invariably 

 from the camera lucida. 



§ UROSTACHYS Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (185!)) GO. 

 Stems long and cylindric, not bulbous, though sometimes more or less 

 thickened at base or summit, the sympodium sometimes rhizomatose, 

 clothed with several or numerous papery or scarious and sometimes 

 evanescent sheaths below the leaves; leaves near the summit, glabrous, 

 usually about 6 or 7 ; racemes several, long, many-flowered ; flowers and 

 rachis often glabrous, never extensively woolly-pubescent; labellum 

 usually entire. 



A. SynvpniliiDii widely creeping, new shoots arising high on tlie shoots next 

 preceding, near the leafy croicn (at least not near the foot). Caulina 

 sheaths conspicuous, spreading and papery. Leaf-blades tapering evenly 

 from about the middle toward both etuis. Lip entire. 



1. E. polyura Lindley Hoi. Reg. (1841) Misc. 55; supra 2o;5. 



Stems stout. 1 on and upward in dia- 

 meter. Members of the sympodium up 

 to 29 cm long, sometimes clavate by 

 thickening toward the apex; new growth 

 arising 15-18 cm below the end of the 

 old. Leaves 18 cm long, 3.5 cm ivide. 

 Inflorescences 10-25 cm long, pubescent 

 the scattered tomentum whitish. Floral 

 bracts reflexed, ovate, 4 mm long. Ovary 

 2-3 mm long. Perianth 5 mm long. 

 Dorsal sepal and petals ovate-lanceolate. 

 Lateral sepals strongly falcate. Lip cor- 

 date-ovate to nearly orbicular, scarcely 3 

 mm long, with 3 calli. Column-foot 

 about equaling the column. (Fig. 2.) 



Fig. 2. — Eria polyura, from Lindley'* 

 type. 



Flowers reddish. 

 Luzon, Mindoro. 



2. E. Copelandii Leavitt supra 203. 



Stem slender, ^ mm in diameter when dig. 

 Members of the sympodium 10-14 cm long, new 

 growth arising 4 cm below the tip of the old. 

 Leaves 13 cm long, 1.2 cm wide. Inflorescence 

 many-flowered, 7 cm long, the scattered tomentum 

 reddish. Floral bracts 2 mm long. Flowers small, 

 globose. Ovary 1-2 mm long. Perianth 4 mm 

 long. Lip concave and scoop-like, semiorbicular 

 to. z.—F.cia copriandii, when spread out, scarcely 3 mm long. Column 

 from the type. and foot about equal. (Fig. 3.) 



Flowers rose-colored. 

 Mindanao. 



