Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 137 



II. Vaxdeae. 



29. EuLOPHiA, Br. 



Terrestrial glabrous herlis, rhizome tul^eroiis or pseudoljulbous. 

 Leaves several, appearing with or after the flowers. Scape lateral or 

 subterminal. Sepals and petals free. Lip from the l>ase of the 

 column base saccate or spurred, side lobes erect. Column long or 

 short with a broad base. Anther 2 celled. Pollinia 2 or -i sessile 

 or attached b}- a short caudicle to a discoid gland (disc). 



Base of sepals prolonged into a spur . . . . 1. ^. squalida. 



Lip spurred. 



Side lobes obtuse .. .. .. 2. E. graminca. 



Side lobes acute, midlobe refuse .. 3. E. Keithii. 



1. E. SQFALiDA, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 18-tl. Misc. 77. Bseudobulb 

 conic short. Leaves developing with the flowers, lanceolate acumi- 

 nate plicate 12-18 inches long, 1^ inch wide. Scape 1-3^ feet tall 

 medium size. Bracts lanceolate acuminate half an inch long. 

 Ovary and pedicel one inch. Upper sepal lanceolate cuspidate, late- 

 rals prolonged at the base into a conic cylindric mentum I inch long 

 l)rownish green half an inch long. Petals oblong ovate twice as 

 broad white tinted pink. Lip longer articulated witli the base of the 

 column, side lobes rounded, midlobe longer oblong crisped veins in 

 disc 4 thickened, base of lip ocreous, aj^ex pale- lilac side lobes veined 

 pale ochre. Column broad much shorter than the petals, foot short 

 and broad with a large enti-ance at the base to the spur wings and 

 arms 0. Anther orange conic with two whitish knobs at' the top. 

 Pollinia 2 globose, caudicle short broad, disc broadly triangular. 

 Capsule pendant fusiform 2 inches long. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 A'l. 6. E. elata. Hook. fil. I.e. 3. Cyrtopera squalida, Echb. fil. 

 Bonplandia 1857. 38. Lindl. Journ. Linn. Soc. III. 31. 



Singapore: Tanglin, , Chan Chu Kang (Eidley) ; Johor: Batn ■ 

 Pahat. Kota Tinggi (Ridley), Sedili River (ISTanson) ; Malacca: 

 Machap (Derry 383); Perak (Scortechini 2023). Distrib. Borneo. 



Open grassy country common. It seems hardly distinct from 

 E. wuda, Lindl. 



2. E. GRAMiXEA, Lindl. Orch. PI. 182. Pseudobulbs cylindric 

 conic often large, 4 inches long, 1 thick. Leaves grassy linear acute, 

 about 6 inches long \ inch across, produced from the flowers. Scapes 

 lateral 1-3 feet tall slender, branched, flowers small numerous an inch 

 long. Bracts ^ inch acuminate. Sepals lanceolate linear acuminate 

 acute. Petals a little broader green with reticulate brown markings, 

 lip side lobes obtuse, midlobe obovate edge undulate crisped white 

 veined with violet, with white hairs, three raised nerves on the disc, 



