Tab. 7612, 7613. 

 EULOPHIELLA Peeteksiana, Krdnzl, 

 Native of Madagascar. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide.e. — Trite Vande^e. 

 Genus Etjlophiella ; {Rolfe in Lindenia, vol. iii. p. 29.) 



EuLOPHiELLi Peetersiana ; gigantea, rhizomate elongato 1-2-poll. crasso 

 cylindraceo repente radicante pseudobulbos foliiferos scaposque emit- 

 tente, internodiis brevibus vestigiis squamarum vestitis, radicibus crassia 

 vermiformibus, foliis fasciculatis 3-5-pedalibus erectis lanceolatis sub- 

 acutis multinerviis, scapo 3-pedali e basi ascendente erecto robusto 

 viridi squamoso, squamis brevibus obtusis vaginantibus inferioribus 

 basin versus scapi imbricatis superioribus remotis, racemo pedali multi- 

 floro erecto, rhachi stricta robusta viridi, bracteis pollicaribus late 

 oblongis cymbiforniibus apice rotundatis griseis, tloribus confertis 3^-4 

 poll, latis, pedicellis cum ovariis 3-pollicaribus roseis, sepalis petalisque 

 subaequalibus orbiculari-obovatis concavis lsete roseo-purpureis basi albis, 

 his paullo minoribus, labello petalis breviore, lobis lateralibus late 

 oblongis incurvis albis roseo-purpureo marginatis, terminale transverse 

 late obloBgo 2-lobulato roseo-purpureo basi albo, disco albo basi 3-lamel- 

 lato, inter lobos laterales carinis 5 aureis percurso, carinis 3 interioribns 

 ad basin lobi terminalis in dentes 3 erectos aureos productis, colurana 

 lobis lateralibus labelli breviore, anthera mitriforme papillosa, polliniis 

 hemisphasricis excavatis in glandulam orbicularem sessilibus. 



E. Peetersiana, Krdnzl. in Gard. Ckron. 1897, vol. i. p. 182. Masters I.e. 

 1898. vol. i. p. 200, fig. 76, cum Ic. Supjd. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. v. 

 (1897), pp. 67, 101, 206. Journ. Horde. Ser. III. vol. xxxvi. (1898), 

 p. 343, fig. 66. 



The superb plant here figured is a native of Madagascar, 

 and appears, according to Dr. Kriinzlin, to have been dis- 

 covered by Johannes Braun, who died at Antananarivo, and 

 •who sent to that botanist leaves of it which measured two 

 feet in length. Living plants were subsequently sent by 

 Mr. Mocoris to Mr. Peeters of St. Giles, near Brussels, 

 who flowered the specimen from which Dr. Kriinzlin drew 

 up his description. According to the latter the plant 

 bears sub-compressed pseudobulbs eleven inches long, 

 covered with decaying leaves. These pseudobulbs are pro- 

 bably not yet developed in the magnificent specimen here 

 figured (which is another of the many triumphs of Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence's successful Orchid culture). The only 

 other known species of Eulophiella is E. Elizabethse, Rolfe, 

 figured at t. 7387 of this work, also a native of Mada- 



Septf.mbkr 1st, 1898. 



