Tas. 5579. 
EULOPHTA VIRENS. 
Greenish Eulophia. 
Nat. Ord. Orncurprs%.—Gynanpria Monanpetia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5561.) 
Evroputa virens ; foliis gramineis lineari-lanceolatis scapis ramosis bre- 
vioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis basi angustatis tessellatis, 
labelli trilobi barbati lobis lateralibus abbreviatis intermedio ovato ob- 
tuso, calcare erectiusculo conico. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. é 
SERAPIAS epidendroides. Retz. Obs. 6. 65. 
Limoporvo virens. Roxb. Corom. v. 1. t. 38. 
Limoporvm epidendroides. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 123-4. 
This is not by any means a showy plant, a ‘circumstance 
that may have had something to do with its tardy introduc- 
tion to European collections. It is a native of the Nilgher- 
ries and also of Ceylon where Mr. Thwaites met with it, and 
it is to him that the Royal Gardens at Kew are indebted for 
living specimens, one of which flowered there not long ago. 
It may be treated like the E. euglossa, figured in the February 
number of this work. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs roundish-ovate, two or three inches 
long, bearing several narrow grassy leaves, which are shorter 
than the branched or sometimes simple scapes. Sepals and 
petals nearly equal, oblong, bluntly pointed, narrowed at the 
base, of a yellowish-green, tessellated with brown lines. Lip 
longer than the petals, white with purple streaks, three- 
lobed, the lateral lobes being shortened, and the central one 
crisp at the margin obtuse and recurved at the apex, and 
furnished with rows of dark hairs along its disk; at its base 
is a short nearly upright conical spur. Colwmn continuous 
with the lip, but not more than a third of its length —J. B. 
- Fig. 1. Lip and column, seen sideways. 2. Lip. 3. Column. 4. Pollen- 
masses :—magnified. 
- JUNE Ist, 1866. 
