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labor of identifying new collections in a group of some hundreds of 
species, whose descriptions are widely scattered in literature, in which 
identification has ordinarily been very difficult or even, except under 
favorable conditions as regards library and herbarium, impossible.' 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, DIAGNOSES OF NEW SPECIES, ETC. 
Before undertaking the consecutive description of the species, I may 
enter certain notes which have been made in my study of the genus ; here, 
also, I have placed the required Latin characterizations of new species, 
citations of specimens, original descriptions, the bibliography of old 
species, etc. 
Measurements in diagnoses of new species are taken from dried specimens. 
When single measurements are given they are maxima rather than averages. 
Leaf-lengths do not include sheathing bases. Lengths of racemes are exclusive 
of the peduncle. The height of the column is generally taken without the anther- 
cap. Drawings are invariably from the camera lucida. 
ERIA Lind ley. 
“ P erianthium lanatum, connivens. Labellum trilobum, articulatum 
cum proeessu unguiformi columnae cujus lateribus sepala antica adnas- 
cuntur. Pollinia octo.” Lindley Bot. Beg. (1825) t. 904- 
“Sepala subaequalia, posticum liberum v. basi breviter rarius alte cum 
caeteris connatum, lateralia saepius latiora basi pedi columnae adnata, 
mentum breve v. rarius calcariforme formantia, superne libera v. rarius 
altius connata. Petala sepalo postico subconformia. Labellum ad api- 
cem pedis columnae basi contractum, rarius articulatum, incumbens, 
superne patens, integrum v. utrinque lobo laterali auctum. Columna 
brevis, lata, antiee cava saepeque anguste 2-alata, basi in pedem producta ; 
clinandrium margine integrum v. vix antiee 2-angulatum et postice 1- 
dentatum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, interdum valde 
convexa v. obtuse conica, loculis 2 distinctis imperfecte 4-locellatis ; 
pollinia 8, cerea, in quoque loculo 4, pyriformia v. late ovoidea, parum 
compressa, acutiuscula v. acuminata, in fasciculos 2 visco parco cohaer- 
entia. Capsula oblonga v. linearis, erostris. — Herbae epiphyticae v. rarius 
terrestres, caulibus secus rhizoma saepius confertis pseudobulbosis, v. 
longiusc-ulis saepe carnosis 2-co-foliatis, v. rarius 1-foliatis. Pedun- 
culi v. scapi pseudotenninales v. laterales, nec direete rhizomati affixi, 
simplices, racemiferi v. interdum 1-fiori. Flores parvi mediocres v. 
rarius majusculi, secus rhachin racemi sparsi v. rarissime distichi. Brac- 
teae parvae v. angustae.” Bentham & Hooker Gen. PI. 3 (1883) 509. 
§ TJROSTACHYA Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 60; Bentham 
1. c. 18 (1881) 303; Bentham & Hooker Gen. PI. 3: 510; Pfitzer in Engler & 
Prantl Nat. Pilanzenfam. 2° (1889) 175; J. J. Smith Orch. Java 398. 
“The caulescent species with numerous leaves , and long racemes or 
panicles of flowers, without the woolly lip-appendages of § Eriura, form 
