104 ORCHIDS OF THE CAPE PENINSULA. 
species is interesting, as being the only one of the large tribe 
Epidendree found within our limits. It does not seem to be common ; 
and the only place where I have found it in any abundance is on the 
sandy ridge due west of Simon’s Town. 
Pratt 22.—Fig. 1, flower viewed laterally; 2, column; 3, pollen-masses: all 
enlarged. 
2.— EULOPHIA. 
R. Brown, in Bot. Register, vol. vii. (1821), sub t. 573, and ib. vol. vil. 
(1822), t. 586. — Orthochilus, Hochstetter in A. Richard, Flor. 
Abyss. vol. ii. (1851), p. 284. Liissochilus, R. Brown, in Bot. 
Reg. vol. vil. (1821) sub t. 578. Cyrtopera, Lindley, Gen. and 
Sp. Orch. (1833), p. 189. 
Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, and spreading or subcon- 
nivent; or the side sepals sometimes adnate to the base of the 
column; or the petals larger and more coloured than the sepals. 
Lip free or shortly adnate to the base of the column, produced at base 
into a spur or pouch, or muticous, usually three-lobed, the side lobes 
involute round the column, or spreading, or reflexed, the terminal 
lobe mostly broader and bi-lobed, or entire, the upper surface marked 
with crested or bearded veins, or by two or more calli, or smooth. 
Column erect, semi-terete, rounded, or the front angles acute or 
winged, sometimes produced at base into a projecting foot or chin. 
Pollen-masses 4, in pairs, or 2, ovoid, waxy, usually attached by a 
short pseudo-caudicle to the flat, transverse gland of the rostellum.— 
Terrestrial herbs with stems often thickened into pseudo-bulbs at the 
base. Leaves usually narrow with raised veins, or plicate, those of 
the flowering stems mostly reduced to sheathing scales. Inflorescence 
terminal, leafy below, or on leafless radical scapes; sometimes 
branched above. (Name from ev, well, and acgos, a crest, in allusion to 
the crested lip of the species on which the genus was founded). 
The satisfactory location of certain South-African Orchids into the 
genera Kulophia, Lissochilus, Cyrtopera, and Cymbidium, was for a 
long time a great difficulty to students. After repeated efforts to 
reconcile apparent anomalies, the matter was submitted to the author- 
ities at Kew, and Sir J. D. Hooker, Prof. Oliver, and Mr. N. E. Brown 
considered it fully. Since it concerns a number of other species with 
which I am wholly or in part unacquainted, and therefore unable to 
form a competent judgment; and since, moreover, their opinion must 
possess great value, I am glad to be allowed to quote their views as 
follows :— 
“Ist. It is quite clear that Cymbidium tabulare, C. ustulatum, C. 
aculeatum (syn. C. pedicellatum, Sw. non Reichb. f.), and C. Buchanani 
