THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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crisped. Foot curved, 3 mm long. Column (exclusive of anther-cap) 
scarcely 1 mm high. 
Flowers reddish. 
Mindanao. 
§ DENDROLIRIUM Lindley Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1859) 48. 
Coarse pseudo bulbous plants, with thick leathery leaves, and rather 
large woolly flowers, the large stout inflorescence arising from beneath 
the pseudobulb. 
26. E. ornata Lindley Orch. PI. (1830) 66; supra 217. 
Pseudobulbs connected by stout woody stems 6 mm in diameter, the 
bulbs flattened, sheathed below, 4-8 cm long, 2-3 cm broad when dry. 
Leaves about 3, very thick and stiff, lanceolate, elliptic or oblong, usually 
about 16 cm long and 3 cm wide, up to 23 cm long and 5 cm wide. 
Inflorescence upright, rigid, up to 34 cm tall, the peduncle with coriaceous 
sheaths at base, longer than the raceme. Floral bracts broadly lanceolate 
to ovate, up to 3 cm long, very pointed, thinly woolly-pubescent, brilliantly 
colored. Ovary and pedicel up to 3.5 cm long, densely tomentose. Sepals 
about 12 mm long, blunt, the dorsal lance-ligulate, 3 mm wide, the 
laterals triangular-falcate, 7 mm wide along the column-foot. Petals 
nearly as long, narrowly lanceolate, 2 mm wide. Lip 13 mm long, 5 mm 
wide, weakly lobed by abrupt constriction below the middle, the terminal 
lobe with oblong isthmus 5 mm long, expanded, crispate and pointed ; 
the disk with lamellae. 
Flowers salmon without, velvety white inside; the bracts orange. 
Luzon, Negros Occidental: Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
§ MYCARANTHES Reichb. f. in Bonplandia 5 (1857) 55. 
Plants tall, leafy throughout, the stem concealed by the persistent 
bases of the leaves, which are glabrous ; inflorescences several, from the 
summit, long, many-flowered, very pubescent; flowers small, the ovary 
and at least the base of the perianth densely woolly-wliite-tomentose ; 
lip 3-lobed with abundantly farinose calli; foot much exceeding the 
column. 
27. E. anceps Leavitt supra 219. 
Stems up to 25 cm high, internodes 4-5 cm long. Sheathing bases 
of leaves 5 cm long, somewhat compressed and slightly carinate on the 
bach; the lamina lanceolate or lance-ligulate, up to 18 cm long and 3 
cm wide, acute. Eacemes 2 or 3, sparsely lanuginose, up to 17 cm long; 
peduncle 3 cm long. Bracts lanceolate, very acuminate, reflexed, 2-3 
mm long. Pedicel and ovary 7-9 mm long. Dorsal sepal ovate- 
cymbiform or oblong, 3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm broad when spread. 
Laterals broadly ovate, asymmetrical, obtuse, 4—5 mm long, 4 mm wide 
