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cliiiandrio subtriiticato, excavato, dorso leviter retuso ciim denticulo brevis- 

 simo, auriciilis obtiisis. Aiitliera cucullata, transverse quadrangula, apice 

 triiiicata et iitrinqiie m deiiticuluin acutiim inciirviim medio in lobuluni 

 lirevissinuini obtiisuni producta, bene 0.05 cm. lata. Rostelliim late trianguluni. 

 Stignia magnum, transversum, margine inferiore elevatiim, semihinatiim. 

 Pes gynostemii ciim ovario angulum aciitum faciens, vix sigmoideiis, linearis, 

 c. 0.07 cm. longus. Ovarium sessile, crassum, loiigiiis et grossiiis pilosum, 

 c. 0.1 cm. longum. 



Sumatra: Opliir districts, Taloe, 500 m., abundant. (H. A. B. Bïinnrmeijf.r 

 n. 15, April 1917). 



Tliis speeies differs from the similar £. sarcophylla Schltr., oî which 

 ! liave had in cultivation an authentic spécimen kindly dealt witli by the 

 author, and too some spécimens from Bornéo, in the smaller flovvers, the 

 form of the bracts, lip, anther and especially in the side lobes of the lip 

 Ilot being connate by a transverse membrane. 



I hâve net seen E. cepifolia Ridl., which is described with terete 

 Jeaves, but KRâNZLiN, vvho apparently made up his description (Pflanzenr. 

 IV, 50. II. B. 21 (1911), 77) from the authentic spécimen, adds „folia . . . . 

 sicca fiiiformia, teretia". This is also often the case in E. sarcophylla 

 Schltr. and E, oberoniiflora J.J.S. Further KRëNZLiN says: Jabelium basi 

 auriculis acutis in iaminam minutam coalitis instructum". If the leaves 

 are really terete only when dry, I am inclined to believe, that E. cepifolia 

 Ridl. and E. sarcophylla Schltr. would prove to be synonyms. 



£. oberoniiflora has white flowers with a violet column. 



Description from herbarium and flowers preserved in alcohol. 



Eria (sect. Aeridostachya) bancana |. J. S. n, sp, 

 Pseudobuibi approximati, erecti, oblongi, compressi, sectione transversa 

 ovales, 2— 3nodes, c. 3.5 — 4 cm. longi, 1.8 — 2 cm. lati, vaginis alternatim 

 bifariis articulatis longis oblongo-triangulis acutis condupiicatis pallide 

 flavo-viridibus superioribus sensim accrescentibus usqiie ad c. 9 cm. longis 

 ad basin, Ifolii. Folium erectum, lorato-lanceolatum, subacutum, basi 

 angustatum et conduplicatum, in utraque parte canaliculae longitudinalis 

 convexum, subtus obtuse carinatum, crasse carnoso-coriaceum, nitiduie 

 viride, subtus opacum, c. 37 cm. longum, 4.5 cm. latum; vagina brevissima 

 Infiorescentia pone folium, erecta, dense nuiltiflora, cylindracea, c. 2.3 cm. 

 diam., pedunculo sectione transversa ovali, puberulo, dilute viridi, superne 

 sordide violaceo-suffuso, c. 15 cm. longo, pluribus vaginulis bracteiformibus 

 parvis adpressis triangulis donato, rachide sulcata, ceterum pedunculo simili, 

 c, 17 cm. longa. Bracteae parvae, pedicello adpressae. triangulae, obtusae, 

 dilute virides, ad c. 0.14 cm. longae. Flores parvi, patentissimi, pallide 

 flavi, c, 0.7 cm. longi, 0.375—0.4 cm. lati. Sepalum dorsale cum ovario 

 angulum obtusum faciens, incurvum, ovali-ovatum, apice subcontractum, obtu- 

 su m, valdeconcavum, dorso breviter et parciustomentellum,c. 0.34 cm. longum 



