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FlG. 20.— Eria Ckmensiae, Up and 

 petal from the type. 



lignlate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, up to 22 cm long, and 4 cm broad. 

 Inflorescences 3 or 4, peduncles 15 cm long, sparsely white-woolly; 

 racemes up to 37 cm long, the rachis pubescent, the reflexed bracts ovale 



or ovate-lanceolate . acuminate, 3-5 mm 

 long. Sepals outwardly sparsely stellate- 

 pubescent; the dorsal eueullate. oblong, 

 Jf-5 mm long, 2 nun wide; laterals oblong, 

 falcate, oblique, obtuse, 0-7 mm long from 

 end of foot to apex of sepal, 5 mm wide. 

 3 mm wide on the column-foot. Lip with 

 lateral lobes ligulate, divaricate from the 

 base of the lip, obtuse, 5 mm long. 2 mm 

 wide at base; mid-lobe clawed, ftabellate or 

 obscurely J-lobulaie, 2 mm long, 4 mm 

 broad; calli 4, one at base of lip farinose, 2 subulate near each sinus, 

 1 large, rostriform, copiously farinose, protruding beyond the mid-lobe, 

 terminating a fleshy farinose median carina. Foot of column 3.5 mm 

 long. (Fig. •>().) 

 Mindanao. 



30. E. major Ridley ex 8U.pl in Trans. Linn. Soe. Hot. II 4 (1894) 2:57. in 

 synonymy; supra 218. 



Stem 40 cm or more tall. Lea res lance-ligulaie . up to /? <)» long 

 and l.ii cm wide. Inflorescences 5, rather densely white-tomentose, the 

 flowers crowded, woolly; bracts very narrow and sharp. .'>-}■'> mm long. 

 Ovary and pedicel 8 mm long. Dorsal sepal oblong, eueullate. 5 mm 

 long. 2 mm broad, obtuse. Lateral sepals unsymmetrically ovate. ."» mm 

 long. 4 mm broad, blunt, densely hairy to the apex. Petals spathulate- 

 oblong. scarcely 5 mm long and 2 mm wide, blunt. Lip in general 

 outline Dearly orbicular, deeply 3-lobed at about the middle, the lateral 

 lobes triangular-falcate, pointed; the middle lobe reniform or bilobniate, 

 apiculate, extending as widely as the lateral lobes. Farinose calli 2, 

 one at the base of the lip, small and 3-lobed, one very large and bluntly 

 boat-shaped, nearly 2 mm high from the middle of the mid-lobe, one 

 smooth pointed callus near each sinus: entire lip 4 mm long. 5 mm wide. 



Flowers purplish tinged. 

 Mindanao: Borneo. India. 



31. E. gigantea Ames Orchidaceae 2 (1908) 192: supra 218. 



Stems often, extremely robust, up to 60 cm tall, -\ cm in diameter al 

 the base. Internodes 3 to 4 cm long. Leaves rattier crowded, linear or 

 slightly lanceolate, acuminate, up to SO cm long. 3 cm* wide. (A form 

 has leaves up to 32 cm long and less than 3 cm wide.) Inflorescences 3 

 or 4, up to 20 cm long, peduncle and rachis stout, not vwy densely 

 white-tomentose. Bracts oblong or ovate, obtuse or apiculate. fleshy, op 



