THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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13. E. com pacta Ames in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 329; supra 208. 
Stems close together, thickened at base, 5 cm high. Leaves at summit, 
3, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, 5.5 cm long, 1.5 cm wide. Bracts 
ovate, 4-5 mm long, half as broad. Ovary sparsely pubescent when 
young, 4 mm long. Perianth 6 mm long. Lateral sepals triangular- 
acute, concave and 2.5 mm wide at base. Petals broadly lanceolate, acute, 
nearly equaling sepals, 2 mm wide. Lip ovate, inclining to cordate at 
base, 4 mm long, nearly 2 mm wide at base. Column distinctive ; wide 
throughout , concave, 2 mm high and nearly as broad, plainly exceeding 
the upturned foot. Mentum rounded. Like E. Elmeri but smaller, the 
floral parts slightly, and the column quite different. 
Mindoro. 
14. E. floribunda Lindley Bot. Beg. (1843) Misc. 43; (1844) t. 20; supra 
209. 
A robust plant, the stems stout and 30 cm or more high. Leaves about 
7, lanceolate, evenly tapering to base and apex from near the middle, 
acute, up to 22 cm long and 3 cm wide. Inflorescences about 3, pubes- 
cent, about 6 cm long, densely flowered. Bracts broad, concave, blunt, 
about 2 mm long. Ovary pubescent, 2 mm long. Flowers not exceeding 
4 mm in greatest diameter, roundish with a pronounced chin. Sepals 
rounded, the dorsal strongly cucullate, 3 mm long and as 
broad, the laterals broadly and unsymmetrically ovate, 
blunt, 4 mm long and nearly as broad at base. Petals 
oblong-falcate, acutish, about 3 mm long. Lip peculiar, 
concave at base, by the elevation of the sides, which are 
produced forward into angles or short horns, connected by 
a cross-wall ; the basal portion of the lip thus forming a 
sort of scoop with 2 forward-projecting corners; in front, fig . io.— Eria jiori- 
as from the floor of this concave basal portion , the lip is banda < h P- 
continued by a narrow, somewhat thiclcned isthmus shortly expanding 
into a flabellate limb. Lip about 4. mm long. The limb above 2 mm 
wide. Column short, thick, much exceeded by the foot. (Fig. 10.) 
Flowers white. 
Palawan: Malay Archipelago to India. 
§ HYMENERIA Lindley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 52. 
Not strictly separable from § Urostacliya , hut stems typically stout 
and pseudobulbous, clustered, with few leaves ; inflorescences 1 or 2, stout, 
produced from the pseudobulbs; flowers often larger and fewer than in 
§ Urostacliya, not densely and extremely woolty as in § Dendrolirium; 
lip generally 3-lobed. 
15. E. bractescens Lindley Bot. Reg. (1841) Mise. 18, and (1844) t. 29; 
Ames Orchidaceae 2 (1908) 189; supra 209. 
Pseudobulbs various, short and bulbous or up to 18 cm long and stem- 
like. Leaves about 3 at the summit, broadly oblanceolate, up to 25 cm 
