TAB- 23. 



Tribe Vande.e. 



Sub-tribe Eulophie.-e. 



Genus Eulophia. 



Eulophia BuchananI, Bolus, in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xxv., 

 p. 185 (1890), noi of Rolfe in Flor. Trop. Afr., vol. vii., p. 64 

 (1898). — Herba erecta glabra robusta ad 1*5 met. alta ; folia 6, 

 per anthesin bene evoluta, erecta equitantia lanceolato-ensiformia 

 acuta, e medio in petiolum long-um vaginatum deorsum attenuata, 

 interdum subplicata crassiuscula nerv'osa, ad 95 cm. longa, 2-6 cm. 

 lata ; scapus validissimus strictus, vag^inis 4-5 distantibus appressis 

 foliaceis acutis vestitus ; racemus laxe 16-20florus, oblongus obtusus 

 15-30 cm. longus ; bracteee oblong-o-lanceolatce acutae ovario 

 pedicellate multo breviores ; sepala erecto-patentia vel subreflexa 

 spathulato-oblonga obtusa petaloidea, 2-2 -3 cm. longa ; petala 

 declinata elliptico-oblonga obtusa, sepalis cequilonga, l^ete lutea ; 

 labellum circuitu oblongo-ovatum valde convexum, marginibus 

 undulatis, tuberculato-cristatum, petalis parum longius, Slobum 

 lateralibus erectis, intermedio subquadrato aequilongo, marginibus 

 deflexis, calcare conico obtuso 0*5-0'6 cm. longo ; columna 

 oblonga, labello duplo brevior, basi in pedem porrectum producta ; 

 pollinia subglobosa in stipite lato affixa ; operculum apice argute 

 bilobum, lobis rubro-coloratis. {Ex exeinplari tinico vivo pliiri- 

 busqiie exsiccaiis.) — Lissochilus Buchanan/, Reichenbach f. in Otia 

 Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 64. 



Hab : South-eastern Region ; Cape Colony : Near St. John's 

 River mouth, in marshy places on the west bank, alt. about 20 

 met., fl. Feb., H. G. Flanagan, 2555! same station, fl. Dec, 

 E. E. Galpin, 3414! — Natal: swamp near Inanda, alt. 570 met., 

 fl. Jan., /. Medley Wood, 845 !— Zululand : fl. Dec, W. J. 

 Haygarth, in herb. Wood, lo-il ! — Rhodesia, Morgenster Mt., 

 near Victoria, fl. Jan., Miss A. M. Krige (No. 10715 in my herb.). 



Plate 23. Fig. 1, lip and column, oblique view ; 2, column, 

 ditto ; 3, operculum ; 4, poUinarium. 



An erect glabrous robust herb, up to 1*5 met. high ; leaves 6, 

 well developed during the flowering period, erect equitant lanceo- 

 late-ensiform acute, from the middle attenuated downwards into 



