Evtornia.}  ORCHIDACE#. 201 
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higher up. Racemes 3-5 in. long, oblong, rather densely flowered 
Flowers pale yellowish-green tinged with purplish-brown, 1 in. in 
diam.; floral bracts shorter than the stalked ovary, membranous, 
lanceolate. Sepals linear-oblong, acute, keeled, their edges reflexed 
and undulate; lateral pair irserted on the ft of the column, wider 
than the dorsal one and free from it at their bases. Petals narrowly 
elliptic, subacute, shorter and wider than the sepals. Lip adnate- 
to the foot of the column, longer than the sepals, slightly saccate 
at the base, 3-lobed ; side-lobes shallow, obtuse ; veins reddish-purple, 
branching within the margin; terminal lobe tinged with yellow, 
transversely oblong, emarginate ; disk with two short smooth ridges: 
half as long as the side-lobes and ending in a free triangular tooth, 
in front of which rise five unequal carunculate ridges extending to 
the terminal lobe. Anther apiculate in front. Pollinia broadly 
triangular, attached by a broad caudicle to a thin angular gland. 
Sub-Himalayan tract in Pilibhit and ‘in the Kheri district of N. Oudh 
(Duthie). Flowers in March and April. Du1srri1s.: N. Bengal, Sikkim, 
Assam, Khasia Hills, Manipur and Upper Burma. 
8. E, flava, Hook. fj. in F. B. I. vi, 7; Prain. Beng. Pl. 1016 ; 
Duthie in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix, part 2,128, t. 110. Cyrtopera 
flava, Lindl. ; Royle Ill. 370, t. 88, fig. 1. 
A tall robust herb with a tuberous rhizome. Leaves about three 
forming when young a short pseudostem by their sheathing base 
appearing later than the flowers, attaining 4 ft. in length and about 4 
in. in width when fully developed. Flowering stem stout, unbranch- 
ed, 2-5 ft. high, clothed at the base with a few distant close-fitting 
sheaths and rising from a tuber beside the leaf-bearing pseudostem. 
Raceme 1-2 ft. long, bracts much shorter than the ovary, }-! in. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers many, large, drooping, 
lemon-yellow. Sepals 1-1} in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. 
Petals rather shorter thar the sepals and much broader, obtuse or 
emarginate, many-nerved. Lip equalling the sepals in length, 3- 
iobed ; side-lobes large, rounded or oblong, whitish towards the apex 
and spotted with purple at their yellow bases; midlobe oblong, 
vellow, the disk with two small pyriform basal calli and three crenate 
lamel!e2; spur a short bluntsac. Column about } in. long, produced 
at the base into a short foot. Anther emarginate at the apex and 
with a long anterior process. Pollinia obtusely angled, attached 
by a stout caudicle to a broad shallow gland. 
Dehra Dun (Royle, Mackinnon); sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand 
and in the Kheri district o N. Oudh (Duthie). Flowers in June 
and July. Disrrrme.: Oute Himalayan ranges of Garhwal and 
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