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EULOPHIA gracais. 

 Slender Eubphia, 



GYNANDWA MONANDIU^. 



JVaf. ord. OrchidEjE. Jvssieu gen. Ql. Brownprod. 1. 300. JHv. IV. 

 Anthera tenoinalis mobilis decidua. Massae poUinis demilm cereacea; 

 Brown in Sort. Kew, 2. 6. 206. 



EULOPHIA. Brown saprd vol 8. fol. 686. 



£. graciUsi scapo gracUlimo, foliis lanceolatis trinerrii^ 3-p!o longitwe, cal* 

 care darato, lahelli lobo medio obsoleto. Lindteg MSS. 

 Herba terrestris. Bulhi amid vett^it aaperii foHohm voHti. Folia 

 3-5, disticha, rigida, oHffuste bmeeolata au6erecta pedatia bati \i^ai6 (■^ 

 boi vagtnantia, nervis tribus primariis, 4 secundonti, ilHi gubHi$ ptomv- 

 nentibus. Scapus teres, gradiUmua muUijhrus foliis tiipb hngior pott tm- 

 thenn bractearum vextigiis tvherculatvs. Flores in xptca »par»tm dispontit 

 luteo~viridet, intOs patlidwres, rvbro paululum suHusi bracteis lanceohti* 

 acumiiMtis ovario duplo breviori: dedduit, anpposttit. Coroltae petala pa-- 

 tentia, ovata, acuta, interiora paulo minoi'a. Xabellum pendulum tt^iauUr 

 buliforme, calcare apice clavato, lobo medio obsoleto ^mbriato. Column 

 libera, antici plana, margine subdltato, ovata, d fronte in roiteUum produe- 

 tum desinens. Gynizus transvergiu excavatua. Anthera termi»ali$, opereu- 

 laris, deddvfl, vnilocularis, infrd apicularis, aniid rostro nut glandulam 

 poUiniorum tegens, poatieh jvxta atrdinem eUmgata purpwea. FoUinia 2, 

 dor»o semibiloba, gbrnduke filiformi affixa. lindley MSS. 



Obviously distinguished from Eulophia gmneensis (vol. 

 8. fol. 686) by its narrow ri^d leaves and very long scapes, 

 which remain in flower for many months. The middle lobe 

 of the labellum is obsolete, and its place supplied by £^ 

 few minute processes resembling a fringe. 



The plant was sent from Sierra Leone, in 1822, by Mr. 

 George Don, collector in the service of the Horticultural 

 Society ; and has been in flower in the garden of this So- 

 ciety at Chiswick for nearly all the summer through. Lind- 

 ley MSS, 



A ground species (not parasitic: not growing upon trees 

 or other bodies). Bulbs conical, enveloped in the hardened 

 nigged permanent bases of the leaves. Leaves 3-5, two 

 opposite stiff, narrowly lanceolate, nearly upright, a foot 

 high, covering the bulbs by the enlargement of their per- 

 manent remnants; primary nerves 3, secc^daiy 4, the 



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