TAB. 25. 



Tribe Vande^. 



Sub-tribe Eulophie.-j:. 



Genus Eulophia. 



Eulophia Capensis, Bolus in Jojirn. Linn. Soc, vol. xix., 

 p. 336 (1882). — Herba erecta g^labra 7-60 cm., saepius 20 cm. alta ; 

 folia 1-2, erecta lineari-ensiformia nervosa scapo nunc longiora, 

 nunc breviora ; scapus strictus vel subflexuosus, vag"inis 3-4 dist- 

 antibus vel imbricantibus vestitus ; racemus abbreviatus 3-14florus, 

 l-3'5 cm. long-US ; bractese lineari-lanceolatae acuminatissimae 

 ovario pedicellato saepius longiores ; sepala declinata oblong-o- 

 lanceolata acuta, 0"8-l cm. long-a ; petala oblonga sepalis sub- 

 aequilonga sed angustiora ; labellum ecalcaratum, circuitu obovatum, 

 sepalis aequilongum, 31obum, lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis 

 intermedio majore tuberculis ramentaceis cristato, truncato leviter 

 undulato totum concavum et quodammoda cochleariforme ; 

 columna oblong-a, acuta labello duplo brevior, basi in pedem 

 porrectum breviter productum. {Ex exempli, pliir. vivis exsic- 

 catisque.) — Satyrium capense, Linn., PI. Rar. Afr. p. 27(1760); 

 S. aculeatum, Linn. f. Suppl. (1781), p. 402; S. pedicellatum, 

 Linn. f. ibid. ; Sempias acilleata, Thunb. Prodr. (1794), p. 3 ; 



S. pec/icellata, T/mnb. Prodr., ibid.; Cymbidium aculeatum, Swts. 



in Schrnd. Joiirn. 2 (1799), p. 225 ; Q. pedicel/atum, Swts. ibid., 

 p. 224; Eulophia aculeata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3 (1826), /». 720; 

 Cyrtopera pedicellata, Lindl., Gen. & Sp. Orch. (1833), p. 190; 

 Cymbidium plicatum, in Cortip. Hot. Mag. 2 (1836), p. 203; and 

 Hook. Icon. Plant., t. 104 ; Eulophia odontoglossa, Reichb.,f. in 

 '' Linncea,' vol. xix. (1847), p. 873; and vol. xx., p. 684; {ex 

 Reichb. f. in ''Flora'' (1883), p. 463) ; £ plicata, Bolus in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, vol. xix. (1882), p. 336. 



Hab. : South-western Region ; Cape Colony : frequent on 

 mts., hills and flats near Cape Town, fl. Dec. -Feb., many collectors. 

 —South-eastern Region ; Uitenhage, Zeylier, 300 ! ; near 

 Grahamstown, Galpin, 3087 ! ; Engcobo Mt., alt. 1350 met., Bolus, 

 10294 ; Frankfort Hill, Sim, 9 !— Trans- Vaal : near Barberton, 

 alt. 1200 met., fl. March, W. Culver, 86 ! 



Plate 25. Fig-. 1, flower, side view; 2, lip and column, 

 ditto ; 3, odd sepal ; 4, 4, side sepals ; 5, 5, petals ; 6, lip, flattened 



