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Eulophia. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDEÆ (ROLFE). 
Scapes erect, 1-2 ft. high; racemes 4-6 in. long, many-flowered. 
Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1-3 lin. long. Pedicels 5-8 lin. long. 
Flowers green, petals and lip with a few broad black lines, centre of the 
sepals black. Sepals and petals broadly elliptical-oblong, obtuse, 5-6 
lin. long. Lip 5-6 lin. long, four-lobed; side lobes broad, rounded : 
front; pair similar but larger; disc smooth, with a broad erect bilobed 
tubercle at the base; spur clavate- or subclavate-oblong, 14—2 lin. long. 
Column stout.—Reichb. f. in Flora, 1878, 77; Xen. Orch. ii. 174, t. 
173. Lissochilus barombiensis, Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 52. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Millen, 150! Ashantee, Assin-yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 
222! Cameroons, Preuss, 96! Kalbreyer (ex Reichenbach), Anda cultivated specimen 
without locality ! 
Flowered at Kew in 1864, and in the collection of W. Wilson Saunders about the 
same time, being described from the latter source, and said to have been introduced 
by Mann. Lissochilus barombiensis, Kränzl., is clearly identical. 
4. E. gracilis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 742. Stems pseudobulbous at 
the base, 1-24 in. long. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, attenuate 
and narrow at the base, 1-14 ft. long, 3—1 in. broad. Scapes 1-2 ft. 
high; racemes 6-9 in. long, lax. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 4-7 lin. 
long. Pedicels 6-9 lin. long. Sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, 5-7 lin. 
long, 2} lin. broad. Petals rather smaller than the sepals. Lip shortly 
and broadly funnel-shaped, truncate, deeply fimbriate, with an oblong 
tooth near the apex; spur 4 lin. long, conical at the base, constricted in 
the middle, and clavate at the apex. Column stout, 2 lin. long, puberulous. 
—Limodorum ciliatum, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 400. Galeandra 
gracilis, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 187 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 133; Reichb. 
f. in Flora, 1878, 77; Kränz), in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889), 
156. Galeandra extinctoria, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 187. Hulophia 
ciliata, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 647; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
EL Afr. y. 20. Eulophia Preussii, Kränzl. in Engl., Jahrb. xvii. 54, 
_ Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bumban to Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 5732! 5738! 
Sugar-loaf Mountain, Preuss ; Bagru River, Mann, 903! and without precise locality, 
Don! Wilford! Liberia, Carder! Lagos, cultivated specimen ! 
t I fail to find any character in the description by which to separate E. Preussii, 
ranzl, 
5. E. leonensis, Rolfe. Rhizome and leaves not seen. Scape 
1] ft. high, rather slender; raceme 10 in. long, lax, many-flowered. 
Bracts linear, acuminate, 2-3 lin. long. Pedicels 4-6 lin. long. Sepals 
elliptical-oblong, subobtuse, 3 lin, long. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, 
24 lin. long. Lip with very short trilobed limb, 1} lin. long; side 
lobes suborbicular; front lobe ovate-oblong, obtuse; dise with a very 
large fleshy callus; spur subclavate, obtuse, 24 lin. long. Column 
stout, 1} lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bafodeya, in sandy soil on rocky hills, Scott- 
Elliot, 5536! 
6. E. stricta, Rolfe. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3-5 lin. 
long, 7-10 lin. wide. Scapes 2-2} ft. high, with a few short sheaths 
elow; racemes 1 ft. long, lax, many-flowered. Bracis lanceolate or 
