ORCHIDACE.E 



out than typical E. halconensis, one specimen in my herbarium 

 being only 23 cm. high, with narrow leaves 4.5 to 7.5 cm. long 

 and with flowers 7 mm. long from the tip of the blunt men- 

 tum to the tips of the lateral sepals. The differences in the 

 floral conformation between the two series are too slight to war- 

 rant specific or even varietal distinction, and as the variation in 

 foliage, though great, is not uncommonly wide for species of the 

 Trichotosia section of the genus Eria, I have refrained from 

 placing upon it undue reliance. 



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