FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. 



ORDER CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJE. 



Continued from Vol. T. p. 858. 



TRIBE II. Vandeae. (See Yol. v. p. 671.) 



39. EUZiOPKIA, Br. 



Terrestrial quite glabrous herbs ; rhizome tuberous, rarely pseudo- 

 bulbous. Leaves appearing with or after the flowers, plaited. Scape 

 lateral, flowers racemose, rarely panicled. Sepals and petals free, spreading. 

 Lip erect from the base or foot of the column ; base saccate or with a 

 mentum or short spur ; lateral lobes erect, embracing the column, rarely ; 

 midlobe spreading or recurved; disk crested, softly spinous or lamellate. 

 Column short or long, top oblique, entire; anther terminal, 2-celled; 

 pollinia 2 or 4, sessile or attached by a short strap to a discoid gland of the 

 rostellum. Species about 50, tropical, chiefly Asiatic. 



I follow Blume, and others, in removing Cyrtopera from Cyrtopodium (where it 

 is placed in Gen. Plant.), and including it as a section under Eulophia, there being a 

 direct passage from the species with, to those without, a foot to the column. In 

 sect. Cyrtopera the lateral sepals are inserted either on the foot of the column, leaving 

 the spur or sac of the lip free, or their insertion extends along the spur, which then is 

 technically a mentum. The perianth of Eulophia is undistinguishable from that of 

 Dipodium, Geodorum, Plocoglottis, and Tainia, of which the two first might but for 

 habit be united with it ; the two latter differ in having creeping rhizomes, usually 

 solitary leaves, and more than 2 polliuia. Chrysoglossum resembles a Eulophia 

 with the pollinia free from the rostellum. 



SECT. I. Eulophia PROPER. Column not produced into a foot. 

 * Leaves and flowers coetaneous, or nearly so. 



t Pseudobulb very large, epigeal, green. Leaves very narrow. Scape 

 often branched. 



1. E. virens, Brown in Bot. Reg. sub t. 573 (Eulophus) ; leaves grass- 

 like, bracts very small ovate acute, sepals linear-oblong subacute or obtuse, 

 petals elliptic obtuse, lip obovate-oblong, side lobes small, disk with 5-crested 

 nerves. Lindl. Gen. <Sf Sp. Orchid. 182; inJourn.Linn. Soc. iii. 24; Wight 

 Ic. t. 913 ; Sot. Mag. t. 5579 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 647. E. carinata, Lindl Gen. 

 $ Sp. Orchid. 183. Aerobium carinatum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 718. 

 Serapias epidendrea, Retz Obs. vi. 65. Limodorum virens, Swartz in Nov. 

 Act. Upsal. vi. 79 ; Eoxb. Cor. PL i. t. 38 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 467. L. epiden- 

 droides, Willd. Sp. PI iv. 124 Eheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 26, and ? 25. 



BENGAL and the DECCAN PENINSULA; in dry ground, Roxburgh, &c. CEYLON, 

 in the Central Province, Walker, &c. 



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