THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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ligulate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, up to 22 cm long, and If cm broad. 
Inflorescences 3 or 4, peduncles 15 cm long, sparsely white- woolly ; 
racemes up to 37 cm long, the rachis pubescent, the reflexed bracts ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 mm 
long. Sepals outwardly sparsely stellate- 
pubescent; the dorsal cucullate, oblong, 
lf-5 mm long, 2 mm wide; laterals oblong, 
falcate, oblique, obtuse, 6-7 mm long from 
end of foot to apex of sepal, 5 mm wide. 
3 mm wide on the column-foot. Lip with 
lateral lobes ligulate , divaricate from the 
base of the lip, obtuse, 5 mm long, 2 mm 
wide at base; mid-lobe claived, flabellate or 
obscurely 2-lobulate, 2 mm- long, 4 m m 
broad; calli 4, one at base of lip farinose, 2 subulate near each sinus, 
1 large, rostriform, copiously farinose, protruding beyond the mid-lobe. 
Fig. 20.— Eria Clemensiae, lip and 
petal from the type. 
terminating a fleshy farinose median carina. 
long. (Fig. 20.) 
Mindanao. 
Foot of column 3.5 mm 
30. E. major Ridley ex Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II 4 (1894) 237, in 
synonymy; supra 218. 
Stem 40 cm or more tall. Leaves lance-ligulate, up to 17 cm long 
and 1.6 cm wide. Inflorescences 5, rather densely white-tomentose, the 
flowers crowded, woolly; bracts very narrow and sharp, 5-15 man long. 
Ovary and pedicel 8 mm long. Dorsal sepal oblong, cucullate, 5 mm 
long, 2 mm broad, obtuse. Lateral sepals unsymmetrically ovate, 5 mm 
long, 4 mm broad, blunt, densely hairy to the apex. Petals spathulate- 
oblong, scarcely 5 mm long and 2 mm wide, blunt. Lip in general 
outline nearly orbicular, deeply 3-lobed at about the middle, the lateral 
lobes triangular-falcate, pointed; the middle lobe reniform or bilobulate, 
apiculate, extending as widely as the lateral lobes. Farinose calli 2, 
one at the base of the lip, small and 3-lobed, one very large and bluntly 
boat-shaped, nearly 2 mm high from the middle of the mid-lobe, one 
smooth pointed callus near each sinus ; entire lip 4 mm long, 5 mm wide. 
Flowers purplish tinged. 
Mindanao: Borneo, India. 
31. E. gigantea Ames Orchidaceae 2 (1908) 192; supra 218. 
Stems often extremely robust, up to 60 cm tall, 3 cm in diameter at 
the base. Internodes 3 to 4 cm long. Leaves rather crowded, linear or 
slightly lanceolate, acuminate, up to 30 cm long, 3 cm wide. (A form 
lias leaves up to 32 cm long and less than 2 cm wide.) Inflorescences 3 
or 4, up to 20 cm long, peduncle and rachis stout, not very densely 
white-tomentose. Bracts oblong or ovate, obtuse or apiculate, fleshy, up 
