THE GENUS ERIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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33. E. brachystachya Reichb. f. Bonplandia 3 (1855) 223; supra 221. 
Stem up to 60 cm high, 4 mm in diameter when dry, leafy through 
three-fifths or more of its extent. Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
about 10 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, obtuse. Peduncle 1 cm or less long, 4- 
or 5-bracteate, bracts linear, about 1 cm long. Flower solitary. Ovary 
with pedicel 7 mm long. Mentum making a right angle witli ovary. 
Perianth nearly 10 mm long. Dorsal sepal oblong, 4 mm wide, obtuse. 
Laterals triangular-falcate, 5 mm broad at base. Petals oblong-falcate, 
obtuse, 9 mm long, 4 m m broad. Lip somewhat cuneate at base, strongly 
3-lobed in front, the side lobes curved and exceeding the mid-lobe, the 
latter rounded, broader than long; the disc and mid-lobe thickened and 
papillose; entire lip 6 m m long and wide. Column and foot about equal. 
Flowers white, the middle of the lip yellow. 
Mindanao, Camiguin ( Babuyanes ) . 
34. E. vulpina Reichb. f. in Bonplandia 3 (1855) 222; supra 222. 
Stems up to 80 cm high, 0.6 cm in diameter when dry. Internodes 
3-4 cm long. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, unsymmetrically acuminate, 
up to 14 cm long and 2.8 cm wide. Inflorescence 10-20 cm long. Bracts 
broadly cordate, 1.2 cm long, nearly as wide, 
acuminate, 1-2 cm distant. Dorsal sepal 
oblong, 
13 mm long. Laterals triangular- 
falcate, acute, 10 mm long, 8 mm wide along 
the foot. Petals curved, oblong to spathu- 
late, rounded at the tip, 7 mm long, 2 mm 
or more wide, externally pubescent. Foot 
7 mm long. Lip 9 mm long, unguiculate, 
dilated into a somewhat quadrate blade 
which is weakly 3-lobed. Mentum rounded, 
strongly outstanding. (Pig. 23.) 
Flowers flesh-color. 
Luzon, Mindoro, Mindanao. 
Fig. 23 . — Eria vulpina, lip. 
35. E. fusca Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1852) 183; supra 222. 
Stems up to 80 cm tall, 0.5 cm in diameter when dry, the internodes 
2-3.5 cm long. Tomentum on leaf -bases dark, dense, fine, short and 
somewhat appressed. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, acute, up to 10 cm 
long, up to 1.8 cm wide, clothed when young with a short, dark-reddish 
pubescence. Inflorescence 4 cm long, the ovate acuminate bracts 8 mm 
long, 5 mm wide, 0.5 cm distant. Dorsal sepal oblong, 8 mm long, 3 
mm wide. Laterals triangular-falcate, 7 mm long on the margin next to 
the dorsal, 8 mm broad along the foot, acute, somewhat carinate. Petals 
linear or spathulate, 7 mm long, less than 2 mm wide. Foot 6 mm long. 
Mentum cylindraceous, curved and standing out. Lip 11 mm long, 7 
mm broad across the terminal lobe, unguiculate, 3-lobed by a sharp 
constriction 3.5 mm from the end, the middle lobe widest, broadly 
flabellate or somewhat reniform, retuse; elevated lines of the disc 3. 
Negros: Java. 
