EULOPHIA 113 



(1833); Griseb. op. cit. 630. C. longifolia Cogn. in Fl. Bras. 

 Hi. pt. 5, 354, t. 76. (PI. 22, f. 4-8.) Type in Herb. Linn. 



Ground Coco, Wild Coco. 



In wet clayey soil in shady places ; in fl. & fr. Nov.-Peb. ; P. Browne 1 

 Purdie; Bethabara, WuUschlaegel, 1057 bis I St. Mary, J, P. 2397, Symel 

 Brokenhurst, Wynne ! Clydesdale, Fawcett ! Wallenford ; near Castleton ; 

 Harris 1 Christiana, Tomlinson I Fl. Jam. 7638, 10,435. — Cuba, Florida, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, 

 Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, West Africa. 



Plant 2-4 ft. high. Leaves appearing after the flowers, three or four 

 at a time, very long, lanceolate, acuminate, below tapering into a long 

 sheath, 7-9-nerved, plaited, 3-5 dm. 1., 3-10 cm. br. Scape ^1 m. 1. and 

 sometimes more, much longer than the leaves. Sheaths long ; free portion 

 triangular, obtuse or somewhat acute. Raceme somewhat laxly many- 

 flowered. Bracts linear-lanceolate or linear-subulate, acuminate, much 

 shorter than the stalked ovary, 8-13 mm. 1. Pedicels about 5 mm. 1. Ovary 

 about 1 cm. 1. Flowers green with brownish-green lip ; perianth f-1 in. 1. 

 Sepals 5-nerved, outer nerve branching, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 

 apex bluntish; lateral oblique at apex, llbout 2 cm. 1., 5*5 mm. br. ; 

 median about 1-6 cm. 1., 4*5 mm. br. Petals with seven branching nerves, 

 oblong, broadening slightly upwards, obtuse, about 1'4 cm. 1., 6 mm. br. 

 Lip brownish-green, shaded and veined inside with purple, about 1*8 cm. 1., 

 with several branching nerves ; lateral lobes short, rounded ; disk with 

 warty calli on nerves. Column about 9 mm. 1. to base, about 13 mm. 1. 

 from apex to end of foot. Capsule 4*5 cm. 1., 1"8 cm. br., pendulous. 



43. GOVENIA Lindl. 



Terrestrial herbs, with a rhizome sometimes thickened into 

 tuber-like pseudobulbs. Stems erect, with few leaves and some 

 stalked sheaths at the base, of which one is often inflated and 

 utricle-like. Leaves ample, plaited, with many veins, with a 

 long sheathing base. Raceme terminal on a leafy stem, simple ; 

 peduncle with a few sheaths near the base. Flowers medium- 

 sized, crowded, or at length distant, very shortly stalked. Bracts 

 small, ovate or narrow, a little shorter than the ovary. Sepals 

 almost equal, connivent ; median incurved, erect ; lateral falcate 

 or decurved, at the base forming a short chin with the foot of 

 the column. Petals somewhat similar to the sepals. Lip 

 attached at the foot of the column, jointed, incumbent at the 

 base, concave, spreading at the apex, undivided. Column 

 incurved, broadly semiterete, winged, produced into a short foot 

 at the base ; clinandrium truncate. Anther terminal, opercular, 

 incumbent, very convex, sometimes crested on the back, 1 -celled ; 

 pollinia 4, waxy, broadly ovate, compressed, without an appendage, 

 on the dehiscence of the anther attached by an oblong or broad 

 stalk, gland small or dilated. Capsule oblong, without a beak. 



Species about 17, natives of tropical America from the West 

 Indies and Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia. 



G. utPieulata Lindl. in Bot. Beg. xxv. Misc. 47, under no. 66 

 (1839) ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4151 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 628. 



