1^8 Orchldece. [Geodonon. 



erect ; bracts subulate-lanceolate, flexuous, as long as the ov., 

 persistent, pedicel with ovary ^7-1 in.; sep. i in. long, dorsal 

 erect, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, lateral inserted on the foot 

 of the column, spreading, obliquely ovate, acuminate; men- 

 turn short, conical, incurved, obtuse; pet. \ shorter than the 

 Sep., spreading, obovate, tip acute or minutely notched and 

 apiculate; lip shorter than the sep., saccate, side lobes small, 

 obtuse, mid lobe small, rounded or broadly ovate, recurved, 

 apiculate, disk with many hairy ridges; column produced 

 into a foot; anth. umbonate, pollinia subglobosely ovoid, 

 erect on a short strap with a large gland; fr. 2^ in., ellipsoid, 

 pendulous. 



Moist region to 4000 ft.; rare. Hantane; Moneragala, Uva (Wall) ; 

 Haputale (Wright); .Mirigama (Wright). Fl. Jan. -April ; sep. and pet. 

 dull purplish-red, as is the whole infl.; lip paler, pinkish-green, with dark 

 purple wings and a green spur. 



E. Himalayas and Khasia. 



The plant is quite leafless at the time of flowering. 



A specimen that flowered at Kew, and is figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine, had the sep. and pet. reddish-brown, inclining to purple, the 

 lip nearly white, suffused with pink towards the margin and on the side 

 lobes, and with two purple spots on the disk. — J. D. H. 



The following species of Eulophia have been erroneously regarded as 

 Sinhalese: — 



E. explanata, Lindl., a Nepal species; Lindl. erroneously quotes Ceylon 

 (Macrae) for it in Gen. and Sp. Orch. 180 (see Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1882) 

 E. bracteosa, Lindl. (/?. gra7idiJiora, Lindl.), is also given by Lindlex 

 (1. c. 181) for Ceylon (Macrae), but erroneously. It is from the Khasia 

 and Burma hills. E. hirdacea, Lindl., is also given for Ceylon (Macrae) 

 by Lindley (1. c. 182), but probably also in error. 



21. GHOHO'R.'aVl, Jacks. 



Herbs, with a tuberous leaf-bearing rootstock ; 1. few, 



plaited, base sheathing; ped. from the base of the tuber; 



fl. in a lax-fld. dccurved raceme, resupinate, bracts narrow, 



membranous; sep. and pet. similar, conniving, oblong or 



obovate-oblong, acute; lip superior, sessile on the base or 



short foot of the column, as long as the sep., c\'mbiform, 



membranous, margins incurved ; base saccate or shortl\' 



spurred, disk appcndaged; column short; anth. 2-celled, 



2-auricled, from detached portions of the top of the column 



which r-dhere to it, pollinia 2, globose, wax)-, subsessile on a 



broad gland.— Sp. 6-8 (?); 4 in F/. />'. Ind. 



Cr. dllatatum, Ih: in Ait. Hort. Kew. cd. 2, v. 207 (1813). 

 Moon, Cat. 60. Thw. Enum. 308. C. P. 3196. 



Fl. 15. Ind. vi. 17. Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 39 {Limodonim recurvtim). 

 Wight, Ic. t. 912 (fl. too large). 



