Eulopliia.'} CXLVIII. OKCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 5 



Scape 6-18 in., stout or slender from a deformed tuber j sheaths subappressed, 

 acute ; flowers many, subsecund ; sepals slightly attached to the base of the lip, 

 . variable in breadth, acute or acuminate, yellow or green striped with pink ; petals 

 narrower; lip as long as the sepals, side lobes rounded or subacute, naidlobe usually 

 purple; spur conical, subclavate or subacute; column rather slender. Capsule f in., 

 ellipsoid. The lip of E. Jiemileuca is rather tubercled than spinulose. 



14. E. stenopetala, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 26 ; scape- sheaths 

 loose, bracts longer than the ovaries, raceme few-fld., sepals | in. linear- 

 obleng 5-nerved, petals lanceolate acuminate 3-nerved, lip broadly cuneate, 

 side lobes rounded much larger than the suborbicular crisped midlobe, disk 

 with 3 nerves tubercled between the side lobes and on the midlobe. 



BHOTAN HIMALAYA; dry hills at Punaka, Griffith. 



Scape 12-18 in., slender; sheaths obtuse; bracts -j-f in.; lip as long as the 

 sepals, spur clavellate. Specimens indifferent. Very near 2. campestris, but the 

 lip is much broader and side lobes more spreading. 



15. E. decipiens, Griff, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlvii. 155, 1. 13, 

 f. 8-12 ; flowers secund, bracts minute, sepals and petals ^ in. linear 

 hardly falcate acute 5-nerved, lip obovate concave 3-lobed above the middle, 

 midlobe much the largest, margin crisped, disk 5-nerved at the base, 10-13- 

 nerved in the middle of which 4-5 form fleshy fibres on the midlobe, spur 

 short slender saccate. 



NICOBAE ISLANDS ; at Kamorta, Kurz. 



Scape 2-3 ft. j root tuberous ; sheaths small, lanceolate. Leaves not seen. 

 Raceme 3-4 in. ; pedicel with ovary \-^ in. ; sepals and petals white ; spur -^ "^ 

 " Closely resembles Pachystoma, senile, but pollinia of Eulophia." I have seen no 

 specimens. 



16. ZS. densiflora, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 25 ; scape robust, 

 bracts shorter than the ovaries, sepals 1-1^ in. narrowly oblanceolate 

 acuminate, petals narrower, lip obovate-oblong, side lobes small rounded, 

 midlobe orbicular, disk with 3 lamelliform nerves which are crenate or 

 interrupted from the middle to near the apex, spur long slender. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; at the foot of the hills, J. D. H. BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Scape 1-3 ft., from a depressed tuber ; lower sheaths obtuse, upper acuminate ; 

 raceme many-fld. ; flowers secund, deflexed, very narrow; column short. The long 

 narrow flowers are very characteristic of this species. 



17. E. burmanica, Hook. f. ; scape robust, sheaths short loose, 

 raceme many- and dense-fld., bracts filiform equalling the ovary, sepals 

 i in. oblong obtuse many-nerved, petals narrower 3-nerved, lip cuneately 

 obovate, side lobes short rounded, midlobe small ovate, disk with 2 carun- 

 culate nerves. 



UPPER BURMA ; Bhamo, Q-riffith. 



Tuber or base of scape oblong. Scape 14 in.; sheaths 1 in. ; raceme 4 in. ; bracts 

 -i in., almost capillary, reflexed; pedicel with ovary as long ; spur conical ; column 

 short ; pollinia globose. A remarkable species, of which there is but one very bad 

 specimen, with twisted scape ; it is possibly near E. macrobulbon. 



Sect. II. Cyrtopera. Column produced into a foot. 



* Lateral sepals inserted on the spur of the lip (see also C. explanata). 



18. E. nuda, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7371; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 180; 

 tall, raceme elongate many-fld., bracts various, flowers large green 



