THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
219 
“ Stems 2-3 ft., as thick as a swan-quill. Leaves coriaceous, nerved. 
Racemes 8-12 in. ; bracts 1^ in. ; flowers blue within ; mentum cylindrie ; 
petals oblanceolate, 3-nerved. Capsule in., linear.” Hooker f. M. 
Brit. Ind. 1. c. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 1^595 Mearns & 
Hutchinson, May, 1906, altitude 1,750 m, flowers with a purplish tinge. 
The three remaining species appear to be undescribed, and I will characterize 
them here. Between two of them the floral differences in the dried state are not 
great, but the vegetative differences are more pronounced. In both the floral 
conformation is very like that of E. major Ridl. The third is easily separated 
from any of the heretofore described species. 
E. longibracteata sp. nov. 
Caules foliosi, graciles, vaginis foliorum tecti, in sicco 4 mm diametro, 
ad 45 cm longi; internodii circiter 4 cm longi. Folia anguste lanceolata 
vel etiam graminea, longe attenuata, acutissima; laminae disarticulatae 
nunc 14 cm longae, 1 cm latae, nunc 21 cm longae, 6 mm latae, vel 
saepius breviores; vaginae cylindraceae, circiter 5 cm longae. Racerni 
2-4, ad summum caulern orti, pedunculati ; inflorescentia omnis ad 23 cm 
longa; pedunculus ad 6-7 cm longus, lanugine alba, vix densa, bracteas 
conspicuas (interdum foliaceas) lanceolatas vel lineatas 1.5-6 cm longas 
et 4 mm latas gerens; rkacMs lanuginosus; bracteae flores subtendentes 
lanceolatae, acuminatae, acutissimae, 4-20 mm longae. Pedicellus cum 
ovario 5 mm longus, vel longior, lanuginosus, ovario celeriter crescente, 
post anthesim longitudinem 28 mm attingente. Flores extus lanugine 
albida vestiti. Sepala 3.6 mm longa; dorsale cymbiformi-ovatum, ex- 
planatum vix 2 mm latum; laleralia triangularia, aliquid falcata, acuta, 
extus apicem versus carinata, circiter 3 mm lata ad basim. Petala fere 
elliptica, aliquid asymmetrica, ad apicem rotundata, 3-3.5 mm longa, 
1.5-1. 9 mm lata. Labellum 3-4 mm longum, 3-3.5 mm latum, triloba- 
tum, obovatum, basi breviter unguiculato, aliquid cuneato; lobi laterales 
ferme semiovati, interdum apicibus recurvatis; lobus medius bilobulatus, 
0.8 mm longus, 2 mm latus, ad apicem dente marginale obtuso; ad basim 
labelli tuberculum bifurcatum, ereetum, farinosum, atque tubercula duo 
minuta; in disco utrinque callus carinatus, dentiformis, a sinubus latera- 
libus remotus; e medio lobi terminalis tuberculum permagnum, ereetum, 
conicum, farinosum. Pes columnae angulum rectum cum ovario formans, 
2 mm longus. Columna brevissima. (Big. 19.) 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. J/.12S Mearns & 
Hutchinson, May 25, 1906, altitude 1,700 m, flowers purplish. 
E. an ceps sp. nov. 
Caules ad 30 cm alti; internodia ad 4-5 cm longa. Folia lanceolata 
vel ligulato-lanceolata, lamina ad 20 cm longa et 3 cm lata, acuta, vagina 
ad 5 cm longa, aliquid ut videtur complanata, tergo subcarinato. Racemi 
2 vel 3, sparse lanuginosi, ad 17 cm longi, pedunculo circiter 3 cm longo. 
