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sepal, lying parallel over the column, narrowly oblong, tapering to 
the base and apex. Lip oblong, 3-lobed, tumid; side-lobes narrow, 
truncate at the apex, puberulous and with two long tapering ridges: 
at their junction with the disk ; terminal lobe oblong, acute, recurved, 
slightly 2-ridged, glabrous. Column erect, its foot at right angles 
to and longer than its body. Ovary pinkish and densely pilose.. 
Pollinia small, compressed, attached to two granular membranes. 
Capsule cylindric, 14-13 in. long. 
Dehra Dun (Duthie, Mackinnon); flowering in April. DisTRre.: 
Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal up to 4,000 ft. and eastwards 
to Bhutan; also in Chota Nagpur. In Sikkim specimens the base 
of the lip, on both surfaces, and the foot of the column are often. 
blotched with reddish-purple. 
10. EULOPHIA, R. Br.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 1. 
Terrestrial glabrous herbs with fleshy tubers or rhizomes rarely 
pseudobulbous. Leaves appearing with or after the flowers, long 
narrow and usually plicate. Flowers in racemes, rarely panicled, 
on a tall erect sheathed usually lateral scape. Sepals free, spread- 
ing, subequal. Petals somewhat similar to the sepals. Lip adnate 
to the base of the column or to its foot, saccate or shortly spurred 
at the base ; side-lobes erect, embracing the column, rarely sup- 
pressed ; midlobe spreading or recurved; disk usually ridged or 
crested. Column with or without a foot, its apex entire and often 
oblique, the margins occasionally winged or lobed. Aniher terminal, 
2-celled, sometimes with two apical processes ; pollinia 2, globose, 
attached by a caudicle to the flat gland of the rostellum.—Species 
over 300, in tropical or subtropical Asia and Africa. 
Column not or only slightly produced into a 
foot :— 
Leaves appearing with the flowers :— 
Lip with a short bent spur ; bracts.as long 
or longer than the ovary :— 
Sepals spreading, linear-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, green - ; : J. E. herbacea. 
Sepals erect, ovate-obtuse, yellowish- , 
brown . y ; , ; . 2. E. Mackinnoni. 
Lip saccate at the base; bracts shorter 
than the ovary . . ; . . & £. explanata. 
