Obghidageae-Monandrae. 



II. B. 21. Tribus Dendrobiinae. 



Pars 2. Genera n. 278 — 280 [Erieaej. 

 Von Er. Kränzlin. 



(Gedruckt von Januar bis Mai 1911.) * 



[Dendrobieae omnium autorum exceptis recentissimis. — Subtribus 5. Erieae Benth, 

 et Hook. f. Gen. III. [1883] 467 e. p. — Subtrib. 3. Erieae Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 



[Dec. 1888] 670.) 



Wichtigste Litteratur: \. Morphologie. Pfitzer, Grundzüge der vergl. Morpho- 

 logie der Orchideen (1882) 36 — 42. 



2. Anatomie. Bisher nicht bearbeitet. 



3. Systematik: Die gesamten über die Dendrobieen verfassten Werke, denen 

 hinzuzufügen sind: Leavitt: The genus Eria in the Philippine Islands in Philippine 

 Journal of Science IV. n. 3 (1909) 201 — 244 c. 26 fig. analyt. — J. J. Smith in Nova 

 Guinea VIII. 85, 88. t. 28, 29, fig. 92—94 et 105—109, t. 35—37, fig. 116—122 

 (icon. analyt.). 



Character. Flor es monoclini. Perigonium ad medianam zygomorphum, sub- 

 connivens, v. patulum marcescens. Sepala 3 libera, dorsale a lateralibus plus minus 

 diversum, plerumque petalis magnitudine subconforme, lateralia basi paulum, rarius longius 

 producta, cum gynostemii pede plus minus connata et mentum plerumque haud con- 

 spicuum (rarius longe productum) formantia; rarissime [Porpax) in tubum connata, fere 

 semper extus pilosa, interdum densissime villosa. Petala minora, rarius pilosa, libera, 

 interdum dorso gynostemii oblique adnata. Labellum liberum, rarissime pedi gyno- 

 stemii adnatum, submobile, integrum v. trilobum v. imo tripartitum, callis longitudinali- 

 bus V. tuberculis in linea mediana instructum, interdum basi nectariferum v. feirina 

 tectum. Gynostemii pars libera brevis, rarissime elongata, apice plerumque tri- 

 dentata, dentes laterales v. stelidia semper praestantia, filamentum plerumque lineare; 

 anthera semiglobosa, plus minus applanata, antice non papulosa, bilocularis, locu us 

 quisque in locellos 4 divisus, diaphragmatibus inconspicuis; pollinia 8 pyriformia, qua- 

 terna basi massa filamentosa cohaerentia; rostellum transversum, angustum, medio 

 emarginatum v. bipartitum: stigma semiellipticum, transverse oblongum v. orbiculare. 

 Ovarium plerumque pyriforme, abbreviatum, saepissime pilosum v. villosum. Fructus 

 capsularis (rarissime visus), elongato-pyriformis v. ellipsoideus, rudimentis perigonii coro- 

 natus, unilocularis. 



Herbae perennes, epiphyticae, rarissime terrestres v. ad saxa vigentes, rhizo- 

 mate repente, ascendente v. pendulo sympodium efformantes. Gaules plerumque 

 pseudobulbosi, infra cataphyllis vestiti, apice tantum foliati, interdum submonopodiales, 

 cylindracei, per totam longitudinem foliati. Folia plerumque glabra, saepius tantum 

 juniora pilosa. Inflorescentiae laterales, pauci-(l-)pluriflorae, rarius multiflorae, 



A. Eng 1er, Das Pflanzenreich. IV. (Embryophyta siphonogama) 50. \ 



