Eulophia.'] OrchidecB. 175 



5-veined; pet. obovate-oblong, or oblanceolate, 3-5-veined; 

 lip as long as the sep., side lobes oblong, obtuse, mid lobe cleft 

 into 2 linear obtuse falcate diverging lobes, disk with a few 

 small warts at the base; fr, ellipsoid, i^ in., pedicel stout, 

 decurved. 



Var. /?, discolor, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Cal. 8. Thiu. Eninn. 30S. 

 C. P. 2371. 



Smaller, lip yellow-brown stained with purple. — Trimen. 



Moist region ; rather rare or local. Maturata (Nock). Var. /3, Nuwara 

 Eliya. Fl. Feb.-April, July ; pure white, the lip often pale pink; in 

 var. ^ the lip dull yellow, with a purplish central stain. 



Also in S. India, Malay Is., Australia. 



20. SUI.OPKIA, Br. 



Terrestrial herbs, pseudobulbous or with a tuberous root- 

 stock; 1. plaited; scape lateral or terminal on the pseudobulb 

 or rootstock, erect ; fl. racemose ; sep. and pet. free, spread- 

 ing or erecto-patent; lip erect from the base or foot of the 

 column, base saccate, or with a mentum or short spur, side 

 lobes embracing the column, mid lobe spreading or recurved, 

 disk crested or echinate ; column long, base produced into a 

 foot or nob, top oblique, entire; anth. 2-celled, pollinia 2, 

 globose, waxy, attached by a short broad strap to a flat 

 disciform gland. — Sp. probably 70; 26 in Fl. B. hid. 



Column not produced into a foot. 

 Pseudobulb epigeal. 

 Sep. linear-oblong, acute or obtuse . .I.E. virens. 

 Sep. lanceolate, acuminate . . . . 2. E. graminea. 

 Rootstock tuberous, hypogeal . . . . 3. E. macrostachya. 

 Column produced into a foot. 

 L. and fl. produced together . . . . 4. E. nuda. 

 L. produced after fl. 5. E. sanguinea. 



I. E. virens, Br. ift Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 182 (1833). 

 Liinodorwn virens, Sw. ; Moon, Cat. 60. Thw. Enum. 302. C. P. 2369. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. i. Bot. Mag. t. 5579 (from Ceylon specimen). Wight, 

 Ic. t. 913. 



Pseudobulb i-ii in. diam., conico-ovoid, clothed with 

 broad acute membranous sheaths; roots short, vermiform; 1. 

 many from the pseudobulbs, 6-24 by \-\ in., grass-like, finely 

 acuminate, keeled, 3-5-veined, base sheathing; ped. with 

 erect branching panicle 1-3 ft., green or more or less stained 

 with brown, sheaths {&\\f, distant, branches forming elongate 

 lax-fld. racemes; bracts minute, ovate, acute, persistent; ped. 

 with ovary ^-1 in.; sep. f in., linear-oblong, obtuse, subacute, 

 or apiculate; pet. broader, oblong, apiculate; lip obovate- 



