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FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. 
Orpver CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. 
Continued from Vol. v. p. 858. 
TaisE II. Vandesze. (See Vol. v. p. 671.) 
39. EULOPHIA, Br. 
Terrestrial quite glabrous herbs; rhizome tuberous, rarely pseudo- 
bulbous. Leaves appearing with or after the flowers, plaited. ` Scape 
lateral, flowers racemose, rarely panicled. Sepals and petals free, spreading. 
Lip erect from the base or foot of the column; base saccate or witha 
mentum or short spur; lateral lobes erect, embracing the column, rarely 0; 
midlobe spreading or recurved; disk crested, softly spinous or lamellate. 
Column short or long, top oblique, entire; anther terminal, 2-celled; 
pollinia 2 or 4, sessile or attached by a short strap to a discoid gland of the 
rostellum.—Species about 50, tropical, chiefly Asiatic. 
I follow Blume, and others, in removing Cyrtopera from Cyrtopodium (where it 
is placed in Gen, Plant.), and including it as a section under Eulophia, there being a 
direct passage from the species with, to those without, a foot to the column. In 
sect. Cyrtopera the lateral sepals are inserted either on the foot of the column, leaving 
the spur or sac of the lip free, or their insertion extends along the spur, which then is 
technically a mentum. The perianth of Eulophia is undistinguishable from that of 
Dipodium, Geodorum, Plocoglottis, and Tainia, of which the two first might but for 
habit be united with it; the two latter differ in having creeping rhizomes, usually 
solitary leaves, and more than 2 pollinia. CArysoglossum resembles a Eulophia 
with the pollinia free from the rostellum. 
Sect. I. Eulophia prover. Column not produced into a foot. 
* Leaves and flowers coetaneous, or nearly so. 
T Pseudobulb very large, epigeal, green. Leaves very narrow. Scape 
often branched. 
l. E. virens, Brown in Bot. Reg. sub t. 579 (Eulophus); leaves grass- 
like, bracts very small ovate acute, sepals linear-oblong subacute or obtuse, 
petals elliptic obtuse, lip obovate-oblong, side lobes small, disk with 5-crested 
nerves. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 182; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 24; Wight 
Ze, t.913 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5579; Walp. Ann. vi. 647. E. carinata, Lindl. Gen. 
& Sp. Orchid. 188.  Aerobium carinatum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 718. 
Serapias epidendrea, Retz Obs. vi. 65. Limodorum virens, Swartz in Nov. 
Act, Upsal. vi. 79; Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. t. 38; Fl. Ind. ii. 467. L. epiden- 
droides, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 124.—Rheede Hort. Mal. xii. t. 26, and ? 25. 
BENGAL and the DECCAN PENINSULA; in dry ground, Roxburgh, &c. CEYLON, 
in the Central Province, Walker, &c. 
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