ORCHIDACE^ 



forest, predominating as undergrowth above the cave; Clevien.s 11 i^, No- 

 vember 1915. Flower white and purple-pink. 



11. Eria (§Aeridostachyae) kinabaluensis Bolfc in Gibbs 



in Journ. Linn. Soc. 42 (1914) 151. 



Pakka Cave, Gibbs 4J02, February 1910. 10,000 feet altitude, under- 

 gro\vtli in scrubby forest. Pakka, Gi/jb,<{ ^,'^.^7, February 1910, 9000 feet 

 altitude, epiphytic in low forest. Flowers brown. 



12. Eria (§Hymeneria) latiuscula yi. iS, S. sp. ?iov. Planta 

 robiista, in visii suberecta. Pseudobulbi cauliformes, leviter cla- 

 vati, in sicco sulcati, vaginis arete vestiti. Folia prope apieeni 

 pseudobulbi, oblongo-lanceolata vel elliptieo-lanceolata, ad api- 

 cem basimqueangustata,subcoriacea. Pedunculi e parte superiore 

 pseudobulbi, bracteis multis praediti. Bracteae conspicuae, re- 

 flexae vel patentes, ovales,apice rotundatae. Sepala lateralia latis- 

 sime triangulari-ovata, obliquissima, obtusa, mentum profunde 

 saceatum formantia. Sepalum dorsale late ovatum, valde con- 

 eavum,apice late rotundatuin. Petala ovalia,apice late rotundata, 

 marginibus leviter irregularibus. Labellum trilobatum,in cireuitu 

 spathulato-obovatum ; lobi laterales parvi, rotundati, auriformes; 

 lobus medius major, semi- vel suborbicularis; carina transversa 

 inter lobos laterales extendit. Gynostemium breve, crassum, pede 

 lato unciformi praeditum. 



Plant stout, apparently suberect. Roots long, fibrous, some- 

 what branching, densely brown tomentose, ± 1 mm. wide. Pseudo- 

 bulbs up to 26 cm. long, stem-like, narrowly clavate, slightly sinu- 

 ous, striate-sulcate in the dried specimen, closely invested by 

 scarious sheaths which become fibrous in development. Leaves 

 ±20 cm. long, 3.3 cm. broad across the middle, three to five, ap- 

 proximate at the summit of the stem, lanceolate, oblong-lanceo- 

 late or elliptic-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to each end, sub- 

 sessile at the somewhat complicate base, subcoriaceous, many- 



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