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Scapes axillary near the summit of the stems, slender, arcuate, many- 
flowered, 2-|-3 inches long. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
1-1J lin. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 2\ lin. long. Petals 
lanceolate-linear, acuminate, If lin. long. Lip entire, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, strongly 3-nerved, 1 lin. long. Column rather stout, about f lin. 
long. Mentum very short.” Rolfe l. c. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Banajao, Elmer 7405, May, 1906, a tufted 
epiphyte, flowers yellowish, altitude COO m. 
The following species is described from a single plant, originally confused 
with E. longicruris on one of the sheets above cited : 
E. racemosa sp. nov. 
Caulis cylindraceus, in sicco plus minus 5 mm in diametro, vaginis 
papju-aceis laxis tubularibus aliquid oblique truncatis 5 cm longis vestitus. 
Folia 7, ad summum caulern confer ta, laminis lanceolatis, ad 12 cm longis 
et 1.7 cm latis, obtusiusculis. Inflorescentiae 4, oppositifoliae, ad 14 cm 
longae, pedunculo breve, validiusculo, racemo laxe plurifloro, plus minus 
2 cm in diametro, bracteis 5 mm longis. Ovarium cum pedicello per- 
gracile, pubescens pilis rufis, plus minus 7 m m longum. Mentum breve. 
Sepala ligulata, obtusa, 8-9 mm longa, dor sale aliquid lanceolatum, 2 
mm latum, lateralia falcata, 2.5 mm lata. Petala ligulata, obtusa, 7-8 
mm longa, 1.5 mm lata. Labellum ovato-oblongum, plus minus 4 mm 
longum, 2 mm latum ad basim rotundatum; calli 3, carinati, duo prom- 
inentes 1 mm a basi labelli, inter eos unus humilis super venam mediam. 
Columna gracilis, 1.5 mm alta, pedi aequilonga. 
Type specimen found upon sheet with Eria longicruris, collected by Hearns & 
Hutchinson on Mount Malindang, Province of Misamis, Mindanao, May, 1906, 
For. Bur. 4609. 
Cuming’s collections in the Philippines gave in the hands of Reiclienbacli f. 
and of Lindley two or perhaps three species in this section. The descriptions 
are highly inadequate. What Reichenbach’s Eria ringens is, can not certainly 
be known until his type can be seen, if it is still in existence when his herbarium 
is opened. Cuming’s no. 2128 is to be found in several herbaria, but it may 
possibly have been originally a mixture, since confusion is easy in a group like 
this. Reichenbach says 1 that his species is repeated in Lindley’s Eria retroflexa. 
E. retroflexa Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 60; Ames Oreliidaceae 
2 (1908) 197. 
“Foliis anguste oblongis spicis tenuibus duplo longioribus, braeteis 
oblongis glabris retroflexis, floribus glabris, sepalis petalis labelloque 
subaequalibus ovatis acutis.” Lindley l. c. 
Fortunately the type of this species is accessible in the Lindley herbarium. 
I have taken a careful camera lucida drawing from a flower, which is reproduced 
below (fig. 7). The floral structure disagrees very essentially with Lindley’s 
drawing on the sheet, and with the original description, which was written, I 
suspect, at second hand, that is from the erroneous drawing rather than from 
the flowers of the plant itself. Such a labellum as Lindley ascribes to Eria 
Linnaea 41:87. 
