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13. E. compacta Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 329; supra 208. 



Stems close together, thickened at base, 5 cm high. Leaves at summit, 

 3, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, 5.5 cm long, 1.J+ cm wide. Bracts 

 ovate, 4-5 mm long, half as broad. Ovary sparsely pubescent when 

 young, 4 mm long. Perianth 6 mm long. Lateral sepals tri angular- 

 acute, concave^ and 2.5 mm wide at base. Petals broadly lanceolate, acute, 

 nearly equaling sepals, 2 mm wide. Lip ovate, inclining to cordate at 

 base, 4 mm long, nearly 2 mm wide at base. Column distinctive; wide 

 throughout, concave, 2 mm high and nearly as broad, plainly exceeding 

 the upturned foot. Mentum rounded. Like E. Elmeri but smaller, the 

 floral parts slightly, and the column quite different. 



Mindoro. 



14. E. floribunda Lindley Bot. Reg. (1843) Misc. 43; (1844) t. 20; supra 

 209. 



A robust plant, the stems stout and 30 cm or more high. Leaves about 

 7, lanceolate, evenly tapering to base and apex from near the middle, 

 acute, up to 22 cm long and 3 cm wide. Inflorescences about 3, pubes- 

 cent, about 6 cm long^, densely flowered. Bracts broad, concave, blunt, 

 about 2 mm long. Ovary pubescent, 2 mm long. Flowers not exceeding 

 4 mm in greatest diameter, roundish with a pronounced chin. Sepals 

 rounded, the dorsal strongly cucullate, 3 mm long and as 

 broad, the laterals broadly and unsymmetrically ovate, 

 blunt, 4 mm long and nearly as broad at base. Petals 

 oblong-falcate, acutish, about 3 mm long. Lip peculiar, 

 concave at base, by the elevation of the sides, which are 

 produced forward into angles or short horns, connected by 

 a cross-wail; the basal portion of the lip thus forming a 

 sort of scoop with 2 forward-projecting corners; in front, fig. io.— Eria flori- 

 as from the floor of this concave basal portion, the lip is ' p " 



continued by a narrow, somewhat thickned isthmus shortly expanding 

 into a flabcllate limb. Lip about 4 mm long. The limb above 2 mm 

 wide. Column short, thick, much exceeded by the foot. (Fig. 10.) 



Flowers white. 



Palawan: Malay Archipelago to India. 



§ HYMENERIA Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 52. 



Not strictly separable from § Urostachya, but stems typically stout 

 and pseudobulbous, clustered, with few leaves ; inflorescences 1 or 2, stout, 

 produced from the pseudobulbs; flowers often larger and fewer than in 

 § Urostachya, not densely and extremely woolly as in § Dendroliriiim; 

 lip generally 3-lobcd. 



15. E. bractescens Lindley Bot. Reg. (1841) Misc. 18, and (1844) t. 29; 

 Ames Orchidaceae 2 (1908) 189; supra 209. 



Pseudobulbs various, short and bulbous or up to 18 cm long and stem- 

 like. Leaves about 3 at the summit, broadly oblanceolate, up to 25 cm 



