THE GENUS EEIA IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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7 mm long, linear-cuneate at base, dilated above, constricted within 2 
mm of the tip, 3-lobed ; lateral lobes minute, obtuse; mid-lobe sub- 
quadrate, apiculate, 4 mm wide ; disc with a prominent mid-nerve. 
Mentum about 3 mm long. 
Flowers pink-purple. 
Mindoro. 
39. E. Ramosii Leavitt supra 224. 
A dwarf creeping species, densely hirsute with yellow hairs. New 
members of the sympodium arising 3 to 4 cm 
from the bases of the old, the erect leafy por- 
tions up to 4 cm long. Stein when dry less 
than 1 mm in diameter ; internodes 7 mm long. 
Persistent bases of the leaves somewhat funnel- 
form ; lamina elliptic, oblong, or broadly lance- 
olate, acuminate, 8 mm long, 3 mm wide. 
Flower solitary, sessile near the end of the 
stem. Dorsal sepal oblong, acuminate, 5 mm 
long, 2 mm wide. Laterals triangular, acute, 
7 mm long, 6 mm wide at base. Petals ex- 
ternally pilose, oblong, acuminate, acute, 4-5 
mm long, scarcely 2 mm wide. Lip entire, ovate, externally pilose, 
carinate on the back and apiculate, 6 mm long, 3.5 mm broad. Column 
thick and pilose. Pollinia 4. (Fig. 25.) 
Flower purplish. 
Luzon. 
Fig. 25. — Eria Ramosii, from 
the type. 
40. E. cymbiformis J. J. Smith Rec. Trav. Bot. Neerl. 1 (1904) 152; supra 
224. 
Stems up to 12 cm long, wholly concealed by the closely imbricated 
bases of the crowded leaves. Leaves 10 or more , ensiform from a broad, 
sheathing base, up to 70 cm long 
and 2 cm wide. Inflorescence 25 cm 
or more long, erect, with scattered 
short white tomentum ; bracts nar- 
row, 2 mm long; raceme cylindric, 
2 cm in diameter. Ovary with 
pedicel 5 mm long, pubescent. 
Dorsal sepal obovate, 5 mm long, 3 
mm broad, obtuse; laterals broadly 
and unsymmetrically ovate, 5 mm 
long, 7 mm broad, obtuse. Petals 
rhombic-obovate, 4 mm long, 3 mm 
wide, obtuse. Lip saccate, truncate, 
acute-angled on the sides in front. 
(Fig. 26.) 
Flowers white. 
Luzon, Mindoro : Sumatra. 
