THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



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lmn wide. Petals ligulate-lanceolate. Lip entire, ovate-lanceolate, 2 

 mm long. Column much longer than foot, which is err;/ short. 



Flowers yellowish, 

 Luzon. 



ttyj Leaves not above 1~> cm long, lip entire, flowers (especially the ovary) 



pubescent, 



S. E. racemosa Leavitt supra 206. 



In habit very similar to the preceding. Stem somewhat stouter. 

 Sheaths of the stem firmer, papery. Leaves lanceolate to lance-ligulate, 

 12 cm long, 1.7 cm wide. Inflorescences 14 cm long, the rhaehis com- 

 paratively stout. Bracts 5 mm long. Ovary 7 mm long, pubescent with 

 reddish hairs. Sepals ligulate, obtuse, 9 mm long, the lateral falcate. 

 Lip ovate-oblong, 4 mm long, 2 mm wide at the rounded base, with 3 

 carinate calli, the middle one lowest. Column and foot equal. 



Mindanao. 



* !t Inflorescences below the leaves as ivell as with them. 



ii. E. retroflexa Lindley Journ. Linn. Boe. Bo*. 3 (18S9) 80; supra 200. 



Stems stout. J. cares ligulate or 

 oblong, acutish, but not long-tapering, 

 up to 17 cm long and 1.8 cm wide. 

 Inflorescences about 10 cm long, with 

 manv reflexed broadly lanceolate acu- 

 minate bracts. Sepals 8.6 mm long, 

 2 nun broad, the dorsal lanceolate, 

 acute, the Laterals triangular-falcate, 

 acute. Petals lanceolate, acute, (i.-t 

 mm long, 1.7 mm broad. Lip ovate, 

 acuminate, acute, 3. 4 mm long, 2 mm 

 broad, thick and apparently callose 

 on the sides near the base. This and 

 E. Merrittii are very much alike. 

 (Fig. 7.) 



Flowers white, 

 Luzon. 



Kig. 7. — Eria retro/iexa, from the type. 



E. ringens Reichb. f. Bonplandia 3 (1855) 222. Described by Reichbcnbach 

 as follows: Stem fleshy, bulbous (cylindraceous? flattened?), when dry a half inch 

 broad. Leaves oblong-ligulate from a cuneate base, at apex unsymmetrical, acute, 

 three or four inches long, one inch wide. Spikes many-flowered, two or three 

 inches long, the bracts two or three lines long, apiculate, reflexed, almost equaling 

 the pedicellate ovary, ovate. Perianth three lines long, smooth. Sepals and 

 petals lanceolate, acute. Lip very shortly clawed, the blade oblong, acuminate, 

 rounded at base. Mention obtuse. Tbe identity of this species is doubtful. 



