THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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mm wide. Petals ligulate-lanceolate. Lip entire, ovate-lanceolate, 2 
mm long. Column much longer than foot, which is very short. 
Flowers yellowish. 
Luzon. 
jf-j-j Leaves not above 15 cm long, lip entire, flowers ( especially the ovary ) 
pubescent. 
8. E. racemosa Leavitt supra 206. 
In habit very similar to the preceding. Stem somewhat stouter. 
Sheaths of the stem firmer, papery. Leaves lanceolate to lance-ligulate, 
12 cm long, 1.7 cm wide. Inflorescences 14 cm long, the rhachis com- 
paratively stout. Bracts 5 mm long. Ovary 7 mm long, pubescent with 
reddish hairs. Sepals ligulate, obtuse, 9 mm long, the lateral falcate. 
Lip ovate-oblong, 4 mm long, 2 mm wide at the rounded base, with 3 
carinate calli, the middle one lowest. Column and foot equal. 
Mindanao. 
** Inflorescences below the leaves as well as with them, 
9. E. retroflexa Lindley Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 60; supra 206. 
Stems stout. Leaves ligulate or 
oblong, acutisli, but not long-tapering, 
up to 17 cm long and 1.8 cm wide. 
Inflorescences about 10 cm long, with 
many reflexecl broadly lanceolate acu- 
minate bracts. Sepals 8.6 mm long, 
2 mm broad, the dorsal lanceolate, 
acute, the laterals triangular-falcate, 
acute. Petals lanceolate, acute, 6.4 
mm long, 1.7 mm broad. Lip ovate, 
acuminate, acute, 3.4 mm long, 2 mm 
broad, thick and apparently callose 
on the sides near the base. This and 
E. Merrittii are very much alike. 
(Fig, 7.) 
Flowers white. 
Luzon. 
Fig. 7.— Eria retroflexa, from the type. 
E. ringens Reichb. f. Bonplandia 3 (1855) 222. Described by Reichbenbach 
as follows: Stem fleshy, bulbous (cylindraceous? flattened?), when dry a half inch 
broad. Leaves oblong-ligulate from a cuneate base, at apex unsymmetrical, acute, 
three or four inches long, one inch wide. Spikes many-flowered, two or three 
inches long, the bracts two or three lines long, apiculate, reflexed, almost equaling 
the pedicellate ovary, ovate. Perianth three lines long, smooth. Sepals and 
petals lanceolate, acute. Lip very shortly clawed, the blade oblong, acuminate, 
rounded at base. Mentum obtuse. The identity of this species is doubtful. 
