^^ cxxxiii. ORCHiDE^ (rolfe). [Eulophia, 



82. E. Woodfordii, /?o^/e. Rhizome tuberous. Leaves la..ceolate 

 or elongate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 8-18 in. long, lJ-2Jin. broad^ 

 attenuate at the base into a sheathing petiole. Scapes IJ-S ft. high, with 

 several long sheaths below ; racemes 6-15 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts 

 linear-lanceolate or linear, acuminate, J-1 in. long. Pedicels G-8 lin. 

 long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 7-10 lin. long; lateral adnate 

 to the foot of the column, forming a chin. Petals oblong or elliptical- 

 oblong, subacute or obtuse, 6-8 lin. long. Lip 7-10 lin. long, more or 

 less distinctly trilobed ; side lobes broadly oblong, rounded or obtuse at 

 the apex ; front lobe broadly ovate-orbicular, obtuse, undulate ; disc 

 with four slightly thickened nerves at the base, and a pair of quadrate- 

 oblong, erect lamellae in the middle ; nerves covered with long, barbate 

 processes in front ; spur broadly saccate. Column clavate, 4 lin. long; 

 foot half as long as the column. — Dendrobium lo7igifolium, H. B. K., Kov. 

 Gen. k Sp. i. 360. Xylohium longifolium, Lindl. ex Spreng. Syst. 

 Yeg. iii. 733. Maxillaria longifolia, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 150. 

 Cyrtop&t^a longifolia, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 668; Flora, 1865, 

 180. Cyrtopodium WoodfoQ-dii, Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 1814; Lindl. Bot. 



E-eg. t. 1508. Cyrtopera Woodfordii, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 189; 



Lindl. Orch. Linden. 19; Reichb. f. in Bonplandia, ii, 19; Griseb. F], 



Brit. \y. Ind. 630. Cypripedium epidendricum, Yell. Fl. Flum. ix. 



t. 64. Govenia harbata, Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. ii. 5, t. 107, 



figs. a-d. Lissochilus amazonicusy Rodr. Gen. k Sp. Orch. Nov. i. 89. 



Cyrtopera amazonica, Rodr. Lc. ii. 180. C. vellosiana, Rodr. I.e. ii. 179. 



Paphiopediluni epideiidricum, Pfitz. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 42. 

 Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, B^irton and Cameron ! Lagos, Millen ! 

 Z»o\irer Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto, in swamps near the river Casabella, 



Sobato de Bumba, IFelivifsch, 664 ! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 671 ! 



Common in the West Indies and in Tropical America. It is interesting to find 



this Tropical American plant in several different localities iu Tropical Africa, but there 



are grounds for suspecting it to have been introduced. 



63. E. flexuosa, Kritnzl. in Engl. PJl. Ost-Afr. C. 157. Pseudobulbs 

 approximate, ovate oblong, obtuse, 6-9 lin. long, 4-6-leaved. Leaves 

 elongate-linear, acute, flaccid, 5-11 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad. Scapes 

 9-12 in. long, clothed with narrow white sheaths below, flexuous; 

 racemes very short, subcorymbose, few-flowered. Bracts ovate, acute, 

 2-3 lin. long. Pedicels 7-8 lin. long. Flowers white, with a few 

 bright purple spots on the petals and sides of the lip, and some yellow 

 in the centre. Sepals spreading, oblong, obtuse, 4 lin. long; lateral 

 adnate to the foot of the column, forming a broad conical chin, 2 lin. 

 long. Petals spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse, with an attenuate base, 

 4 lin. long. Lip entire, recurved, oblong, obtuse, 4 lin. long; disc 

 velvety. Column clavate, angulate, H-2 lin. long; foot half as 

 long as the column. — Cyrtopera Jtexaosa, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 

 363. 



Mozamb. I>ist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, cultivated specimens. 

 Smith ! 



Originally flowered at Kew in 1S94. 



