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rainy season (August). Very unlike Dendrobium cidorops and D. har- 

 batidum in habit, as the leaves and flowers of this plant appear together, 

 but in the cold and hot seasons it is scarcely distingnishable from them 

 except by the somewhat larger fruit. Appears to come nearest in habit 

 and appearance to D. formosum, B,oxb., figured in Wall. PI. As. E,ar. 

 t. 39. This is by far the handsomest orchid in the Bombay Presidency." 

 Phajus albus, Bot. Eeg. (1838) t. 33 (not of Lindl.) ; Bot. Mag. t. 3991 ; 

 Grah. Cat. p. 205 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 818 in part ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 518.— Flowers : July-Aug. 



Eare. Konkan: Matheran Hill eastern side, Dahelll Deccan: on trees at 

 Khandala, Graham ; Mahableshwar, Fairbank ex H. M. Birdwood ; Lanoli, Woodi-ow. 



King and Pautling (Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8, p. Ill) mention, as occurring 

 in Sikkiiu, a small and epiphytal form of Phajus albus with a shorter congested raceme 

 and not ascending beyond 3000 ft., which woidd seem to be tliis. — -Distkib. India 

 (Kumaon, Sikkim, Assam, Khasia, Mussoorie, Birma, W. Peninsula). 



13. EULOPHIA, E. Br. 



Terrestrial glabrous herbs with fleshy tubers or rhizomes (rarely 

 pseudobulbous). Leaves appearing with or after the flowers, long, 

 narrow, usually plicate. Flowers racemose, rarely paniculate, on a tall 

 erect sheathed usually lateral scape. Sepals free, spreading, subequal. 

 Petals subsimilar. Lip adiiate to the base of the column or to its foot, 

 base saccate or with a short spur ; side lobes erect and embracing the 

 column (rarely 0) ; midlobe spreading or recurved ; disk usually ridged 

 or crested. Column with or without a foot, its apex entire and often 

 oblique, the margins sometimes winged or lobed ; anther terminal, 

 sometimes with 2 apical processes, 2-celled ; poUinia 2, globose, attached 

 by a caudicle to the flat gland of the rostellum. — Distbjb. Tropical, 

 numerous in Africa ; species about 50. 



Column not produced into a foot. 



Lip longer than broad ; side lobes of lip short or ; disk of lip 

 with many fringed nerves. 



Sepals i in. long ; side lobes of lip 1. E. ochreafa. 



Sepals f-l| in. long; side lobes f)f lip | in. long 2. E. hcrhacca. 



Lip broader than long ; disk of lip with 3 crested nerves 3. E. ■prafensis. 



Column produced into a foot 4. E. nuda. 



1. Eulophia ochreata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Sac. v. 3 (1858) p. 24. 

 Roots tuberous, hypogeal. Leaves 3-5, elliptic-lanceolate, acumiuale, 

 4-12 by I2--2 i"'i niaiiy-nerved, sessile. FloAvers membranous in all 

 their parts, in dense many-llowered cylindric racemes 4-G in. long; 

 scape 8-12 in. long, stout below, furnished with broad loose ochreate 

 sheaths ; bracts beneath the flowers \-k in. long, conspicuous, narrow, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute ; pedicels with ovary | in. long. Sepals | in. 

 long, linear-lanceolate, acute, strongly nerved. Petals f in. long, 

 broadly elliptic, acute, strongly nerved. Spur a small hemispheric sac. 

 Lip f in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse ; side lobes ; nerves all fringed. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 6, p. 2 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 265. 



Konkan: Stocksl, Law I, Balzell ^ Gibson. S. M. Country: Dharwar, Law\ 

 Kanara : Law ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



2. Eulophia herbacea, Lindl. Oen. ^ Sp. Orchid. (1833) p. 182. 

 Stem 4-6 in. long, sheathed. Leaves 6-12 in. long, varying in breadth 

 fropi 1-3| in., linear-lanceolate or elliptic lanceolate, many-nerved. 



