6 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [.Eulophia. 
or purple, sepals linear-oblong acute, petals shorter elliptic-oblong many- 
nerved, lip obovate-oblong obtuse, side lobes obscure, midlobe rounded or 
retuse crisped, disk crested with many crenulate or tubercled nerves. 
E. bicolor, Dalz. in Hook, Kew Journ. Bot. iii. (1857) 349; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 264; Walp. Ann. vi. 647. Cyrtopera fusca, Wight Ic. t. 1690; 
Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 31; Thwaites Enum. 429 ; Walp. l c. 668. 
C. plicata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7362; Gen. A Sp. Orchid. 190. C. nuda, 
Reichb. f. in Flora 1872, 274. C. Gardneri, Thwaites Enum. 302. C.myso- 
rensis, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 32. €. laxiflora, Gardn. mss. 
Dipodium Roniayte & plicatum, Herb. Ham.—? Rheede Hort. Malab. xii. 
t. 26. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards, Assam, the Khasia Hills, 
MuxwiPORE, Prau and TENASSERIM. Uprzn Burma (Herb. Hort. Calcut.). 
‘The DECCAN PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON; in the Central 
Province. 
Tuber large. Leaves 10-14 in., elliptic-lanceolate, very variable in breadth. 
Scape 1-3 ft., stout; sheaths appressed; bracts rarely equalling the ovary; sepals 
lin.; mentum rounded or conical; lip shorter than the sepals. Capsule 1} in., 
fusiform.—There may be more than one species here, so great are the differences in 
colour of the flower, from a pale green to a duil purple. There is in Herb. Wight 
a very fleshy-flowered species or variety (C. Brunoniana, Wight mss.) from the Kaitea 
Falls (Nilghiris), with a root as large as the fist, the lip with a short horn and a 
linear-oblong pointed shaggy disk; its sepals are green and petals and lip white. 
19. E. squalida, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 77 ; raceme elon- 
gate many-fid., bracts equalling the ovary, sepals oblong-lanceolate 
acuminate, petals elliptic-oblong many-nerved, lip as broad as long sub- 
equally 3-lobed strongly closely nerved, midlobe crisped retuse, disk naked. 
Cyrtopera squalida, Heichb. f. in Bonpland. 1857, 38; Lindl. in Journ. 
Linn, Soc, ii. 81; Walp. Ann. vi. 668. 
PzNANG; on Govt. Hill, Curtis. SINGAPORE, Ridley.—DisTRIB. Malay Islands. 
Stem rooting from the base without a tuber. Leaves 8-12 by 14-2 in., narrowly 
lanceolate, some long-petioled. Scape 18-24 in., stout or slender ; sheaths appressed P 
sepals 4-1 in. long ; lip 2 in. across the side lobes, base rounded ; mentum conical. 
** Lateral sepals inserted on the foot of the column, free of the spur of 
the lip or nearly so. . 
20. E. bicarinata, Hook. f.; raceme oblong densely many-fd., 
sepals linear-oblong acute undulate, petals shorter broader many-nerved, 
lip obovate-oblong, side lobes narrow, midlobe large orbicular crisped, two 
lateral nerves forming long calli at the base of the disk and with the 
median nerve tubercled on the midlobe. Cyrtopera bicarinata, Lindl. in 
Wall. Cat, 7363 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid, 189; in Journ. Linn. Soc iii. 31 
(exel. cit, Ic, Griff.). Epipactis ? bicarinata, Herb. Ham. C mbidium 
Griff. Notul, ii. 343, No. 9; Le. Plant. Asiat. t. 320, £. 3 (pollen). 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Gamble. Assam, Hami . K 
Clarke. MUNNIPORE, Watt. UPPER Boma, Ge a Hryss, alt. 2-3000 ft. 
‘lowering before leafing. Scape 8-30 in., stout or ; i ; 
bracts slender, short or long ; Howers resupinate, purplish Done tae inflated ; 
yellowish ; sepals 1} in. long; lip longer than the sepals, tip rounded p notched ; 
spur conical, obtuse. —Flowers often streaked with pink. I have not seen leaves, 
and Griffith does not describe them ; he says the flowers are purplish brow d the 
lip broadly obtusely spurred. nan 
21. E. candida, Hook. f.; flowering with the leaves, scape slender, 
