ORCHIDACE^. 393 



Flowering stem appearing before the leaves, 

 I to 2 feet high ; with a few sheathing scales, slightly 

 swollen at their attachment to the stem ; quite glabrous, 

 green or purplish. Raceme 6 inches, the flowers about 

 Vz inch, apart. Bracts lanceolate, acute, ^ inch : ovary 

 plus stalk y^ inch. Sepals elliptic, oblong, dirty yellow 

 outside, purple inside, five-nerved. Petals nearly as long, 

 obovate-oblong, clearer yellow. Lateral sepals attached 

 by their J^-inch wide bases to the shortly projecting 

 base of the column, on to which also run the front edges 

 of the two petals. Side-lobes of lips embracing the 

 column, each as wide as the middle lobe : middle lobe 

 with three or four crested ridges running towards the 

 opening of the short, triangular, backward pointing spur. 

 Column deeply grooved, with the sides meeting across 

 the middle at the top ; rostellum sloping downwards. 

 Anther cap with a short projecting point, quite free. 

 Polliniums two, attached by thin elastic bands to the 

 removable part of the rostellum, globose. Capsule 

 lJ4 inches elliptic, turgid. Leaves long petioled, 10 to 

 12 inches. Wight Ic. t. l666. 



There appear to be two varieties, differing considerably in size : — 



var I major. Speals and petals i inch by J^ inch : 

 bracts ^ inch by J4 i^^^h : ovary without a trace of purple. 



Pulneys : on the Kodaikanal downs flowering March and 

 April. Fyson 3100. Bourne 206, 1205, 1397. 



Gen. Disl. Western side of South India, apparently endemic. 

 Flowers in Bombay, November to February. [C.F.B.]. 



yar 2 minor. Sepals and petals 1/2 inch by 1/5 inch, bracts 

 J^ inch by \^ inch ovary tinged with purple. 



1 urn however not very confident about this. 



Eulophia nuda LindL ; F.B.I, vi 5, XXXIX 18. A 

 larger plant with leaf blades 12 to 15 inches long and 

 sepals and petals I inch by % inch. Wight Ic. t. 1690. 



