324 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



have not been able to make out whether they are terrestrial or 

 epiphytes. Konkan (H.). 



Cirrhopetalum, scape arising from the pseudo-bulb, or distant from 

 it, flowers in whorls, petals smaller than sepals, lip very small and 

 stalked, column very short. * C.fiiribriatum, leafless, umbels many- 

 flowered, petals and dorsal sepal long-ciliated, lip tumid, fleshy : 

 " lateral sepals cream-coloured with darker lines, the rest red " (Z>.) ; 

 but 'flowers green with red cilia' (H.). ''On trees on Parwar 

 Ghaut ' the umbrella orchis ' from the inflorescence : curious and 

 beautiful" (/X). Konkan and Canara (fl".). Matheran. Sirdwood. 



Trias, small, scape lateral, one-flowered, petals and lip small, 

 column short, broad, anther produced into a long horn. * T. Stocksii, 

 leaves elliptic, an inch long, petals ovate lanceolate, erect, lip 

 oblong, convex. Not in D. Canara and Koukan (H.). 



Josepkia, stemless, leaves radical, flowers very small in panicle?, 

 lip erect, fleshy, concave, 3-lobed, column erect, broad. * J. lanceo- 

 lata, leaves linear lanceolate, narrowed into a petiole, bracts short, 

 ovate, petals narrower than sepals, flowers white, tinged with purple. 

 Not in D. W. Ghauts (H.). " Inflorescence like that of a Statice : 

 Wight, on Jerdon's authority, mentions the curious fact of the 

 persistent, continuously flowering spikes" (H.). 



Pholidota, bracts in two rows, rigid, flowers small, round, sepals 

 concave, petals flat, lip erect. * P. imbricata, leaf solitary, 6 to 12 

 inches long, oblong lanceolate, petioled, racemes long, drooping, 

 slender, sepals united at the base, lip roundish hooded, the two 

 terminal lobes smaller. Near Vingorla (D.). 



Tribe 2. YANDEX. 6. EULOPHIA. 



1. E. pratensis. One or two feet high, stem sheaths acute, 

 flowers large, yellow and brown, petals and sepals much alike, 

 lobes of the lip ovate rounded, the middle one with 3 crested 

 veins. 



Sholapore districts. Deccan pastures (D.). Mahableshwar. 

 Cooke. 



D. has this as leafless, and I found it so apparently but H. says 

 the leaves appear with the flowers. 



2. * E. nuda (E. bicolor, D.). Tall and stout with lanceo- 

 ate leaves coming after the flowers, which are large, green and 



purple,Jsepals and petals elliptic oblong, lip with obscure side 

 lobes, the middle lobe crisped with many crested or tubercled 

 veins. Ambarkand. 



Ghauts (Z>.). Matheran (Birdwood}. Many parts of India (H.). 

 The root is like a potato. 



* E. herbacea D. has something like the last, (but H. has it in a 

 different group with "b he column produced into a foot ") the spike 



