194 ORCHIDACEJS 



n. s. 18: 500 (1882) ; J. J. Smith Orch. Java 378 and Orch. Ambon 

 73. — E. oaginata Bentham ex B. D. Jackson Ind. Kew. Eria 

 (1893).— E. striolata Reichb. f. Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 3: 554 

 (1888) ; 111. Hort. 35: 35, t. 48 ( May, 1888) ; Ridley Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. 31: 285 (1896) and 32: 304 (1896). — Tain ia stellata 

 Pfitzer in Engler & Prantl Pflanzenf. Orcb. 153 (1888). — ? Den- 

 drobium perakense Hooker f. Fl. Br. Ind. 5 : 712 (1890) and Ic. 

 PL 2019. — Pinalia ragosa, stellata, striolata Kuntze Rev. Gen. 

 PL pt. 2, 679 (1891). 



" Caule radicante./Viis petiolatis erectis lato-lanceolatis obtusis; 

 scapis e basi vaginarum petiolorum multifloris. E. Java. Thun- 

 berg." — Swartz, I. c. 



Inflorescence a loose, many-flowered, spicate raceme. Peduncle 

 ± 4 dm. long. Lateral sepals nearly 2 cm. long, elongated-tri- 

 angular, acute, 5-nerved. Upper sepal similar to the laterals. 

 Petals similar to the sepals, subequal to them. Labellum 1 cm. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, constricted at about the middle so as to 

 appear 3-lobed or subpandurate when spread out ; lateral lobes 

 rounded ; middle lobe about 5 mm. long, oblong, acuminate ; disc 

 3-ribbed. 



Prov. Albav, Luzon, flowering June 6, 1905, in A. Loher's 

 garden at Manila (distributed as no. 6003). — Flowers reddish 

 purple with markings of pure yellow, Prov. Rizal, Luzon, July 

 31, 1907, Maximo Ramos (no. 3036). 



The former specimen agrees with Cuming's no. 2122 in the 

 herbarium of the British Museum, determined by Reichenbach f. 

 as Fria stellata LindL, and with the specimen of E. stellata in 

 Lindley's herbarium at Kew. This species is quite easily distin- 

 guishable from the majority of Philippine Erias by the large 

 stellate flowers in elongated racemes and by the 3-ribbed sub- 

 pandurate labellum. 



New Guinea, Ceram, Amboina, Celebes, Borneo, Java, Malay 

 Peninsula. 



