THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
235 
1.5 cm in diameter when dry. Leaves 2, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 
acuminate, 24 cm long, 2.5 cm broad. 
Inflorescence arising near summit of 
pseudobulb, erect, more than 10 cm 
long, the peduncle stout, the rhachis 
angled. Flowers 15 (?), sessile, not 
crowded, pubescent. Ovary 5 mm 
long, covered with short rufous to- 
mentum. Dorsal sepal lance-ligu- 
late, acute, 1 cm long, 3.5 mm broad. 
Laterals triangular-falcate, acute, 1 
cm long, 3.5 mm broad. Mentum 
conical, somewhat acute, nearly 3 
mm long. Petals lance-ovate, some- 
what falcate, acute, 1 cm long, 4 mm 
broad. Lip ovate, 3-lobed, 8 mm 
long, 4 mm broad ; mid-lobe obovate- 
oblong, acute, 4 mm long; side lobes 
at about the middle, rounded ; on the 
disc 3 raised carinse Column stout, 
2 mm high, the foot long, broad and fig. n.—Eria Lyonu, from the type, 
concave. (Fig. If.) 
Flowers dull-yellow clearly lined with red, the lip clear white with yellow 
base. 
Luzon. 
22. E. rugosa Lindley Orcli. PI. (1830) 66; Ames Orchidaceae 2 (1908) 193 
in syn. ; supra 212. 
E. stellata Lindley Bot. Reg. (1825) t. 90!,. 
Pseudobulb small, up to 5 cm long, clothed and exceeded bv 2 or 3 
large ovate acuminate bracts springing from the base. Leaves 2 from 
the summit, oblanceolate, acuminate, acute, up to 30 cm long and 2 cm 
wide. Inflorescences 1 or 2, stout, up to 45 cm long, long-pedunculate, 
bracts broadly lanceolate, acuminate, acute, up to 1.5 cm long. Ovary 
and pedicel tomentose, not winged , 7-9 mm long. Flowers large, the 
sepals pubescent, sepals and petals narrow, acuminate from the base, the 
dorsal sepal up to 1.8 cm long. Mentum 3 mm long, pointed. Lip 12 
mm long, 4-5 mm wide, constricted at the middle so as to appear weakly 
3-lobed, with 3 earinje nearly the entire length, the basal half obovate, 
the apical oblong, acuminate, acute. 
Luzon: New Guinea to Malay Peninsula. 
23. E. Merrillii Ames Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. .331; supra 213. 
Very like the preceding. Pseudobulb large and stout, up to 13 cm 
long, not concealed by the several large acuminate sheaths springing 
