THE GENUS EUIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 237 



crisped. Foot curved, 3 mm long. Column (exclusive of anther-cap) 

 scarcely 1 mm high. 



Flowers reddish. 



Mindanao. 



§ DENDROLIRIUM Lindley Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1850) 48. 



Coarse pseudobulbous plants, with thick leathery leaves, and rather 

 large woolly flowers, the large stout inflorescence arising from beneath 

 the pseudobulb. 



2(5. E. ornata Lindley Orch. PI. (1830) 06; supra 217. 



Pseudobulbs connected by stout woody stems 6 mm in diameter, the 

 bulbs flattened, sheathed below, 4-8 cm long, 2-3 cm broad when dry. 

 Leaves about 3, very thick and stiff, lanceolate, elliptic or oblong, usually 

 about 16 cm long and 3 cm wide, up to 23 cm long and 5 cm wide. 

 Inflorescence upright, rigid, up to 34 cm tall, the peduncle with coriaceous 

 sheaths at base, longer than the raceme. Floral bracts broadly lanceolate 

 to ovate, up to 3 cm long, very pointed, thinly woolly-pubescent, brilliantly 

 colored. Ovary and pedicel up to 3.5 cm long, densely tomentose. Sepals 

 about 12 mm long, blunt, the dorsal lance-ligulate, 3 mm wide, the 

 laterals triangular-falcate, 7 mm wide along the column-foot. Petals 

 nearly as long, narrowly lanceolate, 'I mm wide. Lip 13 mm long, 5 mm 

 wide, weakly lobed by abrupt constriction below the middle, the terminal 

 lobe with oblong isthmus 5 mm long, expanded, crispate and pointed; 

 the disk with lamellae. 



Flowers salmon without, velvety white inside; the bracts orange. 



Luzon, Negros Occidental : Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



§ MYCARANTHES Reichb. f. in Bonplandia 5 (1857) 55. 



Plants tall, leafy throughout, the stem concealed by the persistent 

 bases of the leaves, which are glabrous; inflorescences several, from the 

 summit, long, many-flowered, very pubescent; flowers small, the ovary 

 and at least the base of the perianth densely woolly-white-tomentose ; 

 lip 3-lobed with abundantly farinose calli ; foot much exceeding the 

 column. 



27. E. anceps Leavitt supra 219. 



Stems up to 25 cm high, internodes 4-5 em long. Sheathing bases 

 of leaves 5 cm long, somewhat compressed and slightly carinate on the 

 back; the lamina lanceolate or lance-ligulate, up to 18 cm long and 3 

 cm wide, acute. Racemes 2 or 3, sparsely lanuginose, up to 17 cm long: 

 peduncle 3 cm long. Bracts lanceolate, very acuminate, reflexed, 2—8 

 ■mm long. Pedicel and ovary 7—9 mm long. Dorsal sepal ovate- 

 cymbiform or oblong, 3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm broad when spread. 

 Laterals broadly ovate, asymmetrical, obtuse, 4-5 mm long, 4 mm wide 



