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AMES. 
narrowly lanceolate, acute, about 6.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, 3-nerved, 
acute. Labellum lanceolate, ecallose, smooth, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide 
at base. 
At 3,950 ft. alt. on Mount Halcon, June 15-27, 1906, M. L. Merritt (No. 
4357). 
Unfortunately the material on which the above description is based is not in 
good condition. 
Eria vulpina Reichb. f. Bonpl. 3: 222 (1855). 
Epiphyte in forest at 2,300 ft. alt. on Mount Halcon, flowers purplish, bracts 
yellowish red, Nov. 10, 1906, Merrill (No. 5501). 
Endemic in the Philippines. Originally collected by H. Cuming on the island 
of Bohol. 
Eria (§ Hymeneria) Woodiana Ames sp. nov. 
Allied to E. ovata Lindl. Stems about 18 cm. long, leafy at the 
summit, closely sheathed. Leaves .oblong-lanceolate, up to 3 dm. long, 
3-4.5 cm. wide, acute. Inflorescence racemose, much shorter than the 
leaves. Flowers pale yellow. Peduncles about 1 dm. long, floriferous 
nearly to the base, breaking forth from the leafy summit of the pseu- 
dobulbs. Bracts ligulate, acute, about 5 mm. long. Lateral sepals oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, 6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Upper sepal narrowly lanceo- 
late, 6,5 mm. long. Petals narrowly lanceolate, subacute, 5.5 mm. long, 
1.5 mm. wide Labellum 3-nerved, about 4 mm. long, orbicular at base, 
contracted at about the middle into the oblong, obtuse, apical half, 
monocallose at base in front of the claw. 
Epiphyte in ridge forest at 3,000 ft. alt. on Mount Halcon, No. 10, 1906, 
Merrill (No. 5490). 
PHREATIA Lindl. 
Phreatia sulcata (Bl.) J. J. Smith Orch. Java 505 (1905). — Dendrolirium 
sulcatum Bl. Bijdr. 347 (1825). — Eria sulcata Lindl. Orch. PI. 69 (1830). 
Epiphyte in ridge forest at 6,000 ft. alt. on Mount Halcon, flowers white, with 
faint odor, Nov. 15, 1906, Merrill (No. 5765). 
Java 'and Sumatra. 
Phreatia prorepens Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Harnb. 54 (1878). 
Epiphyte in ridge forest at about 5,800 ft. alt. on Mount' Halcon, flowers white, 
fragrant, Nov. 15, 1906, Merrill (Nos. 5758, 5814, 6190). 
This very rare species was originally collected by the expedition commanded 
by Captain Wilkes which visited the Philippines between the years 1838 and 
1842. One of the specimens collected by this expedition is preserved in the Gray 
Herbarium and bears the name Eria ( Phreatia ) prorepens in E. G. Reichenbach’ s 
hand. The material on which my determination is based agrees with this speci- 
men in essential details. 
Endemic in the Philippines. 
