THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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sub-acute, 1.4 mm long, 4 mm wide. Lip entire, ovate, obtuse, ecallose, 
7 mm long. Column 2.5 mm high. Ovary tomentose hairy.” 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, For. Bur. 2206 Meyer, Novem- 
ber 22, 1904, terrestrial, flowers odorless, petals cream-color, lip dark-red, common, 
altitude 760 m; For. Bur. 2322 Borden, December, 1904: District of Lepanto, 
Mount Data, Merrill 4859, October 29, 1905, epiphytic in the mossy forest, altitude 
2,125 m, flowers pale-dull-purple; trail to Balbalasan, For. Bur. 5529 Klernme, 
November 19, 1906, flowers pink; same place and date, flowers white, For. Bur. 
5732 Klemnre: Province of Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 4318 Hearns, July, 1907, 
altitude 2,100 m. 
E. Woodiana Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 332. 
“Allied to E. ovata Lindl. Stems about 18 cm long, leafy at the 
summit, closely sheathed. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, up to 3 dm long, 
3-4.5 cm wide, acute. Inflorescence racemose, much shorter than the 
leaves. Flowers pale yellow. Peduncles about 1 dm long, floriferous 
nearly to the base, breaking forth from the leafy summit of the pseudo- 
bulbs. Bracts ligulate, acute, about 5 m m long. Lateral sepals oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, 6 mm long, 2 mm wide. Upper sepal narrowly lance- 
olate, 6.5 mm long. Petals narrowly lanceolate, subacute, 5.5 mm long, 
1.5 mm wide. Labellum 3-nerved, about 4 mm long, orbicular at base, 
contracted at about the middle into the oblong, obtuse, apical half, mono- 
callose at base in front of the claw.” 
E. longicruris sp. nov. 
Caules cylindracei, vaginis tubularibus vestiti, ad 30 cm alti, in sicco 
2 mm in diametro, ad summum per distantiam 3—5 cm foliosi. Folia 
lanceolata, acuminata, acuta, lamina ad 15 cm longa, 1-1.5 cm (rarissime 
2 cm) lata. Inflorescentiae 2 vel 3, oppositifoliae, laxiflorae, 5-9 cm 
longae; pedunculus brevis, cum rhachide glabro pergracilis. Bracteae 
acuminatae, aeutae, plus minus 6 mm longae. Flores plus minus 15, 
glabri. Ovarium cum pedicello pergracile, ad 15 mm longum. Sepalum 
dorsale a basi regulariter fastigatum, vel aliquantum lanceolatum, acutum, 
11-13 mm longum, 2-3 mm latum ad basim. Sepala lateralia similia, 
parum falcata, intermedio.aequilonga. Petala ligulato-lanceolata, acuta, 
sepalis aliquanto breviora et angustiora. Labellum brevissime unguicu- 
latum, 3-lobatum, plus minus 6 mm longum; pars basilaris rotundata, 
plus minus 4 mm lata, carinis tribus, medio crasso, canaliculato ; lobi 
laterales incurvati, breves, obtusi; lobus medius oblongo-obovatus, plus 
minus 3 mm longus, 1.5-2 mm latus. Columna gracilis, ferine 3 mm 
alta; pes 2 mm longus. (Fig. 6.) 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 4609 Hearns d 
Hutchinson, June 4, 1906, part in Manila, part in herb. Ames. Altitude 2,800 m. 
Flowers yellow-white. 
E. graciliscapa Piolfe ex Ames Orchidaceae 1 (1905) 93; 2 (1908) 193; 3 
(1908) 88, t. 57. 
"Pseudobulbs terete, slender, 5-6 inches long. Leaves 3 or 4, terminal, 
lanceolate-oblong, subcoriaceous, 2^-3^- inches long, 6-8 lines broad. 
