Lulophia. | CXXXII. ORCHIDEX (ROLFE). 47 
10. EULOPHIA, R: Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. EI. iii. 535. 
Sepals subequal, free, subconnivent or spreading, the lateral ones 
sometimes adnate to the foot of the column. Petals like the sepals 
or a little broader, sometimes differently coloured. Lip continuous 
with the base or foot of the column, sometimes a little contracted above 
the base, trilobed or entire; base variously saccate or calcarate; side 
lobes erect or sometimes nearly obsolete; the middle one spreading or 
recurved ; disc variously cristate or lamellate, rarely smooth. Column 
short, stout, the base sometimes more or less produced into a foot; 
clinandrium or anther-bed oblique, erect, entire. Anther terminal, 
operculate, incumbent, semiglobose, conical or rarely acuminate ; apex 
more or less bilobed, imperfectly 2-celled ; pollinia 4, ovoid, united in 
pairs, affixed to a broad stipes and gland. Capsules ovoid or oblong, 
rarely elongated, with prominent thickened angles.—Terrestrial herbs or 
rarely epiphytes. Stems leafy at the base, creeping, often thickened 
into rhizomes, sometimes forming aerial pseudobulbs. Leaves distichous, 
often narrow and elongated, usually plicate, rarely conduplicate and 
coriaceous. Scapes or peduncles variously sheathed below, racemose or 
loosely paniculate above. Flowers small or medium-sized, usually lax. 
Bracts small or narrow.—Cyrtopera, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 189. 
Hulophidium, Pfitz. Entw. Nat. Anordn. Orch. 87. 
A genus of about 180 species, widely diffused through the tropics, but most 
numerous in Africa, and rare in Malaya, Polynesia, Australia and Tropical America. 
There is a complete passage between the species with and those without a foot, so that 
it seems impossible to retain Cyrtopera as a distinct genus. A few species almost 
form a transition to Lissochilus, though most of the species of that exclusively African 
genus are well characterised by the reflexed sepals and much broader petals. 
Spur short or obtuse. 
Pseudobulbs monophyllous ; leaves coriaceous, not plicate, 
irregularly variegated . S : . L E Ledienii, 
Pseudobulbs or stems with two or more plicate, green 
leaves. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, abruptly narrowed below. 
Lip 2 lin. broad . A S : : - . 2, E latifolia. 
Lip 6 lin. broad. : . 3. E. saundersiana. 
Leaves linear to elliptical- lanceolate, attenuate below. 
Spur clavate or oblong. 
* Flowers paniculate or in rather long lax racemes. 
Limb of lip shorter than the clavate spur. 
Limb of lip concave, truncate, and ciliate . 4. E. gracilis, 
Limb of lip convex, fleshy and glabrous . 5, E. leonensis. 
Limb of lip longer than the spur. 
+ Sepals 2—4, or rarely 5-6 lin, long. 
~ Flowers racemose. 
-Lip as broad as long . S : . 6. E stricta, 
Lip longer than broad. 
Petals nearly or quite as long as the 
sepals. 
Raceme 1 ft. long . ` SE Dusents. 
Raceme under 4 ft. long. 
Sepals under 2 lin. long . . 8. E. Milnei. 
