392 ORCHIDACE^. 



smaller, dark green. Flowering axis about 2 feet. 

 Flowers rather crowded towards the top : bracts l% 

 inches, lanceolate, acute, herbaceous ; upper smaller 5^ 

 inch : flower-stalk (ovary and pedicel) 2 inches. Sepals 

 J^ inch, elliptic, obovate, five-nerved; petals equal, 

 three or five-nerved : all five erect or spreading. Lip 

 hanging prominently outwards, with four oblong lobes, 

 two on each side, spreading outwards and attached to the 

 foot of the column and forming with it a short canal 

 leading to the hollow of the spur. Polliniums eight, 

 slender. Wight Ic. t. 1664. 



In woods. Pulneys : close below Kodaikanal and in many 

 other sholas. Nilgiris : Kotagiri, in Longwood shola. Fyson 

 1705. Bourne 280, 677, 2042, etc. 



But not common at these elevations, much more frequent below, where 

 another species C masuca LindUy with purple Howers and stalkless leaves 

 also occurs. 



Gen, Dist. Deccan 6 to 7,000 feet, Canara, Ceylon and on to Malaya 

 and Australia. 



EULOPHIA. F.B.I. 148 XXXIX. 



Ground orchids flowering often before the leaves 

 appear. Leaves rising from a lateral bud, rather narrow, 

 plaited, arranged spirally, and convolute in bud, and 

 jointed at their bases. Flowers in tall racemes. Sepals 

 and petals similar, narrow, and not spreading much. 

 Column slender and long, curving forwards at the base. 

 Lip with side lobes embracing the column, a middle lobe 

 with raised ridges, and a short spur. Anther cap falling 

 off completely. Polliniums two or four, attached by 

 elastic straps to a thin oblong band fixed to an easily 

 romoved bit of the rostellum. 



Species about 50, in all warmer parts of the world, especially 

 tropical and South Africa, and Asia (one near Madras) ; but, 

 also, in Australia two and in Brazil one. A few are cultivated. 



Eulophia pratcnsis Lindley ; F.B.I, vi 4, XXXIX 10 ; 

 yellow Ground Orchid. 



