Tas. 8057. 
KULOPHIA NUDA. 
India and China. 
Orcuipaces. 'l'ribe VANDER. 
Kuxornia, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 535; Rolfe in 
Thiselton-Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 47. 
Eulophia nuda, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 180; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, 
_ vol. vi. p.5; inter species asiaticas sectionis Oyrtoper labello subintegro 
distincta. 
Herba terrestris rhizomate tuberifero. ‘Tubera depresso-globosa, angulata, 
13-3 poll. lata, approximata. Swrculé 2-3-phylli, basi vaginis imbricati. 
Folia lanceolata ve) elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, plicata, basi angus- 
tata, petiolata; limbus 4-12 poll. longus, }-23 poll. latus; petiolus 4-9 
poll. longus; vagine lanceolate, acuminate, striate, 4-4 poll. longe. 
Scapi erecti, in avxillis vaginarum orti, 1-2 ped. alti, basi vaginis 
lanceolatis obtecti; racemi laxi, multiflori. Bractez lineari-lanceolate, 
acuminate, }$-14 poll. long. Pedicelli 1-14 poll. longi. Flores speciosi, 
purpurei, pallide rosei vel subvirides; labelli discus aureus. Sepala 
erecta, oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, 1-1} poll. longa. Petala incurva, cum 
columna galeam formantia, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa vel apiculata, 3-1 
poll. longa. Labellum subintegrum, recurvum, obtusum, undulatum, 
petalis longius ; calcar conicum, acutum vel subobtusum, 3-9 lin. longum. 
Columna clavata, arcuata, 5-7 lin. longa, apice bicornuta, basi in pedem 
producta.—Eulophia bicolor, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. iii. 
p. 343. Cyrtopera fusca, Wight Ic. t. 1690; C. plicata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 
Orch. p. 190. OC. nuda, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1872, p. 274. OC. mysorensis, 
Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. p. 32. 
Kulophia nuda, Lindl., is a widely diffused and very 
variable orchid, if all the above-named forms are correctly 
referred to a single species, as was done by Sir Joseph 
Hooker in the ‘‘ Flora of British India.” It ranges from 
Nepal to Ceylon and Burma, and thence to the province of 
Yunnan, in Western China, and the differences of colour 
are remarkable, from rose-purple to delicate pink and 
very pale green. It was assumed, when the example here 
figured first flowered, that the Burmese and Chinese plant 
could he separated from the Indian, on account of its 
longer spur, but one Burmese example (that coloured 
yellow-greenish on the plate) is as short as in the Indian 
forms, and as both show the same range of variation m 
colour, it seems best to regard them as belonging to a 
single polymorphic species. 
The forms here figured are selected from plants pre- 
sented to Kew in 1902 by H. H. Hildebrand, Ksq., O.LE., 
late Superintendent of the S. Shan States of Upper 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1906. : 
