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LEAVITT. 
long and 4 cm wide. Inflorescence mostly 1, up to 20 
cm long, conspicuous for the oblong bracts (sometimes 
broadened toward the apex), which are up to 2.5 
cm long and 1+-8 mm wide. Ovary and pedicel thin, 
up to 2.5 cm long. Dorsal sepal 1 cm long, 2.5 mm 
wide, lance-ligulate. Laterals strongly falcate, taper- 
ing from the base, or nearly oblong, about 1 cm long, 
3 mm wide. Petals nearly equal to sepals, lance- 
ligulate, slightly falcate, obtuse, 2.5 mm wide. Lip 
3-lobed, 9 mm long, 6 mm wide, ovate to cuneate- 
obovate in general outline; carime 3, the middle ex- 
tending into the middle lobe, the laterals ending below 
fig. li—Eria^ bractescens, pp e s i nuseSj or extended to the middle lobe ; papillae 
scattered and in lines on the middle lobe; lateral lobes 
obtuse, slightly incurved, oblong or ovate ; middle lobe much larger, oblong 
to obovate, rounded or truncate at the extremity. Column and foot nearly 
equal. (Pig. 11.) 
Flowers creamy white. 
Luzon, Mindanao, Basilan. 
Var. latipetala Leavitt supra 210. 
The petals somewhat broader than in the species, 
deeply stained with red or purple, visibly shorter 
than the dorsal sepal; the lip approaching orbicular 
in general outline, 8 mm long, 7 mm wide, shortly 
clawed, the lateral lobes larger than the middle, 
rounded, truncate, tinged with red. (Pig. 12.) 
Pseudobulbs short and stout. 
Flowers white, the petals deeply stained with red or 
purple. 
Fig. 12. — Eria bractescens, Luzon 
var. latipetala , lip from 
the type. 
1(1. E. longilabris Lindley Bot. Keg. (1841) Misc. 38, and (1844) t. 29, f. 3; 
supra 210. 
With the appearance of E. bractescens, but with petals and sepals more 
acuminate, and the mid-lobe of the lip longer, acuminate, the lateral 
lamellfe produced nearly to the apex. 
Panay. 
