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rounded tip shortly petioled 1 inch long f inch wide. 

 Raceme very slender 2 inches long rising from the axil 

 of a broad lanceolate papery sheath. Flowers about 

 14, distant bracts oblong obtuse papery persistent £ 

 inch long. Pedicel half as long. Sepals lanceolate acute 

 long. Petals half as long elliptic obtuse lip 

 clawed oblong entire dilate towards the tip rounded. 

 Column have narrow dilated above with lanceolate acu- 

 minate arms rising a little below the stigma. 

 Sarawak : Tiang Layu. (J. Hewitt). 



Eria (Trichotosia) aurea, n. sp. 



Stems rather slender erect 18 inches or more tall 

 nearly glabrous except for a line of red hairs on the 

 side opposite the leaf and a circle of red hairs at the 

 mouth, (young parts sprinkled with short red pubes- 

 cence). Leaves, lanceolate light green acute with a 

 broad base rather fleshy glabrous. Racemes 1 inch long 

 few flowered red hairy. Bract at the base cup-shaped 

 covered with red hairs. Bracts lanceolate obtuse red 

 hairy. Flowers small about 6. £ inch long, enclusive 

 of ovary. Upper sepal lanceolate acute red hairy later- 

 als ovate fulcate acuminate red hairy, mentum scroti- 

 form. Petals linear falcate obtuse. Capsule elliptic \ 

 inch long. 



Sarawak Santubong (Hewitt). 



Flowers golden yellow with reddish brown hairs. The 

 specimens were nearly past flower. 



Eria (acridostachyae) triloba, n. sp. 



Stem apparently cylindric 3 inches long. Leaves 

 lorate or linear-lorate obtuse 14 inches long by one inch 

 wide, subherbaceous. Scapes a foot long, raceme dense 

 all coverd with brown wool. Bracts lanceolate J- inch 

 long brown woolly, peduncles nearly ^ inch long. Sepals 

 upper lanceolate obtuse, laterals subtriangular, mentum 

 short thick rounded. Petals very thin narrowly linear. 

 Lip three lobed shorter than sepals, base long linear 



E. A. Soc, No 49, 1907. 



