THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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Miquel FI. Ind. Bat. 3:661; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. 6:269; Naves in Nov. App. 
FI. Filip. (1883) 236; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II 3 (1893) 366, Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Bot. 31 (1896) 285, 32 (1896) 304; Kranzlin in Schumann & Lauter- 
bach FI. Deutsch. Schutzg. Siidsee 248. 
Octomeria stellata Spreng. Syst. Veg. 4 Cur. Post. (1827) 310. 
“Bulbis oblongis triquetris apice 1-2-phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 
nervosis, spicis erectis sepalisque exterioribus temiiter fusco-tomentosis, 
bracteis membranaceis, labello intus membranaceo-crispato, limbo lobo 
medio ovato acuto.” Blume l. c. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Loher 6003, flowering in Manila June 6, 1905: 
Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 3036 Ramos, July 31, 1907, flowers reddish-purple 
with markings of pure yellow. 
E. Merrill ii Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 331. 
“Pseudobulbs about 1 dm long, very stout, compressed, 3 cm or more 
in diameter, diphyllous (sometimes bearing more than 2 leaves). 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, about 3 dm long (up to 6 dm), 4-7 cm wide. 
Peduncle comparatively stout, arising from near the summit of a pseu- 
dobulb (erect? or drooping?) bearing numerous very large, nearly white, 
somewhat purple-tinged flowers in a dense, elongated raceme. Raceme 
about 3 dm long. Bracts triangular-lanceolate, acute, 1.5-2 cm long, 
about 4 mm wide at base. Ovary very strongly winged, distantly re- 
sembling an auger on account of the spiral turnings of the wings. 
Lateral sepals 1.5 cm long, linear-falcate, tapering to an acute apex 
from a 6 mm broad base. Upper sepal linear, 1.9 cm long, 3 mm wide, 
tapering gradually to an obtuse tip. Petals similar to the lateral sepals, 
1.6 cm long, about 4 mm wide at base. Labellum 11-11.5 mm long, 
3-lobed ; lateral lobes comparatively small, curved, about 1 mm long, 1 
mm wide, obtuse, 5.5 mm from the base of the labellum; middle lobe 7 
mm long, 2.5 mm wide, oblong, acute. Through the disc of the labellum 
extend 5 prominent nerves or carinae.” 
§ Aeridostachya Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1890) 786 (§ Aeridostachya Hook, 
f., 1. c., apparently by adoption of Bentham’s typographical error, Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. 18:303) ; J. J. Smith Oreli. Java 402. 
“Pseudobulb very short, 1-leafed, sheathed as in Xiphosium. Scape 
from the base of the pseudobulb, stout, erect. Flowers minute, in dense 
rusty-tomentose spikes; sepals very short; mentum long, spur-like.” 
Hooker f. 1. c. 
E. Aeridostachya Reichb. f. ex Lindl., and its allies. 
Bindley applied the name Eria Aeridostachya Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 
48, as of Reichenbach’s creation (“Reichb. f. in litt.” ) , to a garden specimen of 
Loddiges, originally derived from Batavia. The description is short and from the 
present standpoint inadequate, though in Lindley’s time it may have amply 
specified the plant for which it was drawn. Nine years later (1868) Reiclienbach 
described one of Seemann’s Fiji plants (Seem. FI. Vit, 301) as answering to this 
name, which he had first given to a Javan plant of Zollinger and had then 
communicated to Bindley. Reichenbach’s description is fuller, yet does not serve 
