﻿Plate 1882. 



EULOPHIA EXPLANATA, Lindl. 

 Oechidej:. Sub-Tribe Eulophiej:. 



E. explanata, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orchid. 180 («wl habitat); 

 scapo laxe 2-vaginato, racemo laxe multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis 

 acuminatis, sepalis 5-nerviis, dorsali ovato-lanceolato, I;it« ■l-ilibus ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis sub;ir bis 5-nerviii, 



labello oblongo subpanduriformi cymbiformi apice rotundato basi 

 conico-saccato, disco lamellis 2 crassis crenulatis instructo, costa 

 crassa apicem versus carunculata, nervds lateralibus divergentibus, 

 columna brevi. Dipodium scariosum, Herb. Earn. 



Hab. Nepal; at Maghada, in tbe Morung, April 27, 1810, 

 Hamilton. 



Folia tempore florente valde immatura, lanceolata, e caule brevi 

 basi vaginata erumpentia, vaginis latis acutis et obtuHs. Sea- 

 pus cum racemo 6-10 poll., 8-10-florus ; vagina- }_,-$ p<»II. longa?, 

 membranaceaj, subinflataj, acuta' ; bra.-t. :v ;. -f. poll. i--i. •..•. pedi- 

 cellos sequantes v. superantes ; flores § poll, lati, nervis sepalorum et 

 petalorum trabeculatis. 



Thanks to the kind loan of Hamilton's Herbarium by the 

 University of Edinburgh, I am enabled to correct Lindley's habi- 

 tat for this plant, which in that author's Herbarium is given as 

 1 Ceylon, McJRae, 2nd Coll.' His single specimen is the ■ 

 Hamilton's, and as no other collector has found the species in CV\ Ion, 

 there can be no reasonable doubt as to the conclusion thai Lindley's 

 specimen was from Hamilton's Herbarium. As Hamilton is the only 

 botanist who has explored the Nepal Mornng (base of thj 

 Himalaya), it is not surprising that this species does not ei 

 Herbaria. It will, however, doubtless be found hereafter m an 

 analogous position in Kumaon or Sikkim. The habit ifl « 

 of an Austh which genus it may possil 



but without examining the pollen, for which there are nut * 

 materials, this point cannot be determined. There is very bttteto 

 distinguish the Australian Dipodia from Euhplda ; the Indian >> P < 

 are totally different in habit, and can hardly be included in the same 

 genus with the Australian.— J. D. Hoook. 

 . Fig. 1. Dorsal, and 2. lateral sepals. 3. Petal. 4. Side, and 5. and 6. front view tf 



