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LEAVITT. 
of the column is taken with the operculum removed. Drawings are invariably 
from the camera lucida. , 
§ TJItOSTACHYS Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 60. 
Stems long and cylindric, not bulbous, though sometimes more or less 
thickened at base or summit, the sympodium sometimes rhizomatose, 
clothed with several or numerous papery or scarious and sometimes 
evanescent sheaths below the leaves; leaves near the summit, glabrous, 
usually about 6 or 7 ; racemes several, long, many-flowered ; flowers and 
rachis often glabrous, never extensively woolly-pubescent; labellum 
usually entire. 
A. Sympodium widely creeping, new shoots arising high on the shoots next 
preceding, near the leafy croton (at least not near the foot). Catiline 
sheaths conspicuous, spreading and papery. Leaf-blades tapering evenly 
from about the middle toward both ends. Lip entire. 
1. E. polyura Lindley Bot. Reg. (1841) Misc. 55; supra 203. 
Stems stout, 1 cm and upward in dia- 
meter. Members of the sympodium up 
to 29 cm long, sometimes clavate by 
thickening toward the apex; new growth 
arising 15-18 cm beloiv the end of the 
old. Leaves 18 cm long, 3.5 cm wide. 
Inflorescences 10-25 cm long, pubescent 
the scattered tomentum whitish. Floral 
bracts reflexed, ovate, 4 mm long. Ovary 
2-3 mm long. Perianth 5 mm long. 
Dorsal sepal and petals ovate-lanceolate. 
Lateral sepals strongly falcate. Lip cor- 
date-ovate to nearly orbicular , scarcely 3 
mm long, with 3 calli. Column-foot 
about equaling the column. (Fig. 2.) 
Luzon, Mindoro. 
Fig, 2 . — Eria polyura, from Lindley’s 
type. 
2. E. Copeland ii Leavitt supra 203. 
Fig. 3 .—Eria Copelandii, 
from the type. 
Stem slender, 1+ mm in diameter when dry. 
Members of the sympodium 10-14 cm long, new 
growth arising 4 cm below the tip of the old. 
Leaves 13 cm long, 1.2 cm wide. Inflorescence 
many-flowered, 7 cm long, the scattered tomentum 
reddish. Floral bracts 2 mm long. Flowers small, 
globose. Ovary 1-2 mm long. Perianth 4 mm 
long. Lip concave and scoop-like, semiorbicular 
when spread out, scarcely 3 mm long. Column 
and foot about equal. (Fig. 3.) 
Flowers rose-colored. 
Mindanao. 
