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tracta. Labellum cum raentum articulatum ovatum 2 -A- mm. lougum 2 mm. 

 latum, plus minus medio plicatum apice cuspidato-acutum, basi vatde con- 

 tractum, trinervium, ]>rope basin discis lineaiibus 4 instructum. Columna 

 2i mm. longa 1 mm. lata, (clinandrium trail catum), basi in pedem 24 mm. 

 longum producta. Pollinia 8. 



HAB. Koslmn, Hieraiizan, leg. T. KAWAKAMI et S. SASAKI, 1911, FeK 



Near Eria formosana ROLFE, (Kew Bull. (1896) p. 194), of which I made 



a rough sketch, when I was at Kew. As the original description of the 



species is not here accessible, it is quite doubtful whether it is different from 



our plant or not. 



Eria nudicaulis HAYATA sp. nov. Caulis crassus, cylindrico-teres, 

 25 cm. longus, 1 cm. in diametro sectionis, basi 1-2 squamatus, (squamis 

 brevissimis late ovatis apice rotundatis 1 cm. longis), basi radices 

 emittens, (radicibus molle tomentosis), a basi sursurn remote squamatus, 

 (squamis teuuissimis hyalinis apice triangularibus obtusis demum evanescen- 

 tibus,) nodis non conspicuis, internodiis 3-5 cm. longis, apice pauce foliatis. 

 Folia crassa, elongato-oblonga, 1 5 cm. longa 3-4 cm. lata, apice obtusa, plus 

 minus plicata, basi attenuata, ima plus minus dilatata, cum vagiuis foliorum 

 articulata, venis utroque 4-5, (in exsiccato promiuentibus), inter venas 

 nmltivenulosa, vaginis foliorum brevioribus 1 cm. longis. Spicse axillares 10- 

 20 cm. longa^ a basi usque ad apicem floriferie, glabrte, bracteis ovatis 4 mm. 

 longis acutis 2i mm. latis, pedicellis (cum ovario) 5 mm^ longis. Sepala sul>- 

 seqiialia lanceolata 7-nervia, 7 mm. longa 2.5 mm. lata, glabra, posticum 

 liberum, lateralia obliqua basi ad pedem columnar adnata mentum formantia, 

 basi 1 A- mm. lata apice obtusa vel acuto-obtusa basi leviter contracta. 

 Petala lanceolata 3-nervia quam sepalo postico breviora, 6 mm. louga 2.1 mm. 

 lata apice acuminato -obtusa basi leviter contracta. Labellum triaugulari- 

 ovatum vel rhomboideo-ovatum apice acutum, basi abrupte contractum cum 

 pede columua? articulatum, 3 mm. longum, 2 mm. latum, apice 3-nervium, 

 utroque latere discis unis linearibus arcuatis crassis insti-uctum. Columna 

 brevis 1^- mm. longa 1 mm. lata, obovata, apice dilatata, basi contracta, in 

 pedem li mm. longum angustatum \ mm. latum producta. Antliera distincte 

 2-locularis, loculis imperfecte 4-locellatis. Pollinia 8 V 



