THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



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Fig. 17. — Erin Li/imii, from the type. 



1.5 cm in diameter when dry. Leaves 2, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 

 acuminate. 24 cm Long, 2.5 cm broad. 

 Inflorescence arising near summit of 

 pseiulobulb, erect, more than 10 cm 

 long, the peduncle stout, the rhachis 

 angled. Flowers 15 (?), sessile, not 

 crowded, pubescent. Ovary 5 mm 

 long, covered with short rufous to- 

 mentum. Dorsal sepal lance-ligu- 

 late, acute, 1 cm long, 3.5 mm broad. 

 Laterals triangular-falcate, acute, 1 

 cm long, 3.5 mm broad. Mentum 

 conical, somewhat acute, nearly 3 

 mm long. Petals lance-ovate, some- 

 what falcate, acute, 1 cm long, 4 mm 

 broad. Lip ovate, 3-lobed, S mm 

 long, 4 mm broad ; mid-lobe obovate- 

 oblong, acute, 4 mm long; side lobes 

 at about the middle, rounded ; on the 

 disc 3 raised carina 1 Column stout, 

 2 mm high, the foot long, broad and 

 concave. (Fig. 17.) 



Flowers dull-yellow clearly lined with red, the lip clear white with yellow 

 base. 



Luzon . 



22. E. rugosa Lindley Oreh. PI. (1880) (Hi; Ames Orchidaceae 2 (1908) 193 

 in syn. : supra 212. 



E. atellata Lindley Hot. Reg. (1826) t. 904. 



Pseudohulb small, up to 5 cm long, clothed and exceeded by 2 or 3 

 large ovate acuminate bracts springing from the base. Lea res 2 from 

 the summit, oblanceolate, acuminate, acute, up to SO cm long and 2 cm 

 wide. Inflorescences 1 or 2, stout, up to 45 cm long, long-pedunculate, 

 bracts broadly lanceolate, acuminate, acute, up to 1.5 cm long. Ovarii 

 and pedicel tomentose, not winged, 7-9 mm long. Flowers large, the 

 sepals pubescent, sepals and petals narrow, acuminate from the base, the 

 dorsal sepal up to 1.8 cm long. Mentum 3 mm long, pointed. Li}) \2 

 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, constricted at the middle so as to appear weakly 

 3-lobed, with 3 carina? nearly the entire length, the basal half obovate. 

 the apical oblong, acuminate, acute. 



Luzon: New Guinea to Malay Peninsula. 



23. E. Merrillii Ames Philip. .Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 331; supra 21:5. 

 Wry like the preceding. Pseudohulb large and stout, up to 13 em 



long, not concealed by the several large acuminate sheaths springing 



