Eulophia.] cxxxiii. orchide^ (rolfe). 47 



10. EUIiOPHIA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 535. 



Sepals subequal, free, subconnivent or spreading, the lateral ones 

 sometimes adnate to the foot of the column. Petals like the sepals 

 or a little broader, sometimes differently coloured. Lip continuous 

 with the base or foot of the column, sometimes a little contracted above 

 the base, trilobed or entire ; base variously saccate or calcarate ; side 

 lobes erect or sometimes nearly obsolete ; the middle one spreading or 

 recurved ; disc variously cristate or lamellate, rarely smooth. Column 

 short, stout, the base sometimes more or less produced into a foot ; 

 clinandrium or anther-bed oblique, erect, entire. -Anther terminal, 

 operculate, incumbent, semiglobose, conical or rarely acuminate ; apex 

 more or less bilobed, imperfectly 2-celled ; pollinia 4, ovoid, united in 

 pairs, affixed to a broad stipes and gland. Capsules ovoid or oblong, 

 rarely elongated, with prominent thickened angles. — Terrestrial herbs or 

 rarely epiphytes. Stems leafy at the base, creeping, often thickened 

 into rhizomes, sometimes forming aerial pseudobulbs. Leaves distichous, 

 often narrow and elongated, usually plicate, rarely conduplicate and 

 coriaceous. Scapes or peduncles variously sheathed below, racemose or 

 loosely paniculate above. Flowers small or medium-sized, usually lax. 

 Bracts small or narrow. — Cyrtopera, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 181). 

 EulophidiuTriy Pfitz. Entw. Nat. Anordn. Orch. 87. 



A genus of about 180 species, widely diflfused through the tropics, but moat 

 numerous in Africa, and rare in Malaya, Polynesia, Australia and Tropical America. 

 There is a complete passage between tlie species with and those without a foot, so that 

 it seems impossible to retain Cijrtopera as a distinct genus. A few species almost 

 form a transition to Lissochilus, though most of the species of that exclusively African 

 genus are well characterised by the reflexed sepals and much broader petals. 

 Spur sbort or obtuse. 



Pseudobulbs monophyllous ; leaves coFiaceous, not plicate, 



irregularly variegated . . . . . . 1. JE. Ledienii. 



Pseudobulbs or stems with two or more plicate, green 

 leaves. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, abruptly narrowed below. 



Lip 2 liu. broad . , . . . . . 2i. E. latifoUa. 



Lip 6 lin. broad . . . . . . .3. E. saundersiana. 



Leaves linear to elliptical-lanceolate, attenuate below. 

 Spur clavate or oblong. 



* Flowers paniculate or in rather long lax racemes. 

 Limb of lip shorter than the clavate spur. 



Limb of lip concave, truncate, and ciliate . 4, E. gracilis. 

 Limb of lip convex, fleshy and glabrous . 5. E. leonensis. 

 Limb of lip longer than the spur. 



t Sepals 2-4, or rarely 5-6 lin. long. 

 Flowers racemose. 



Lip as broad as long ... 6. E. stricta. 



Lip longer than broad. 



Petals nearly or quite as long as the 

 sepals. 

 Raceme 1 ft. long . I.E. Dusenii. 



Raceme under \ ft. long. 



Sepals uuder 2 lin, long . . 8. jK. Milnei. 



