6 CILVIII. ORCHIDE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) \lEulvpliia. 



or purple, sepals linear-oblong acute, petals shorter elliptic-oblong many- 

 nerved, lip obovate-oblong obtuse, side lobes obscure, midlobe rounded or 

 retuse crisped, disk crested with many crenulate or tubercled nerves. 

 E. bicolor, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Sot. iii. (1857) 343 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 264 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 647. Cyrtopera fusca, Wight Ic. t. 1690 ; 

 Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 31 ; Thwaites JSnum. 429 ; Walp. I. c. 668. 

 C. plicata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7362 ; Gen. # Sp. Orchid. 190. C. nuda, 

 Eeichb.f. in Flora 1872, 274 C. Gardneri, Thwaites JSnum. 302. C. myso- 

 rensis, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 32. C. laxiflora, Gardn. mss. 

 Dipodium Roniayte & plicatum, Herb. Ham. ? Rlieede Hort. Malab. xii. 

 t. 26. 



TEOPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards, ASSAM, the Khasia Hills, 

 MUNNIPORE, PEGU and TENASSERIM. UPPEE BURMA (Herl. Sort. Calcut.). 

 The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON ; in the Central 

 Province. 



Tuber large. Leaves 10-14 in., elliptic-lanceolate, very variable in breadth. 

 Scape 1-3 ft., stout ; sheaths appressed ; bracts rarely equalling the ovary ; sepals 

 1 in.; mentum rounded or conical; lip shorter than the sepals. Capsule li in., 

 fusiform. There may be more than one species here, so great are the differences in 

 colour of the flower, from a pale green to a dull purple. There is in Herb. Wight 

 a very fleshy -flowered species or variety (C. Brunoniana, Wight mss.) from the Kaitea 

 Falls (Nilghiris), with a root as large as the fist, the lip with a short horn and a 

 linear-oblong pointed shaggy disk ; its sepals are green and petals and lip white. 



19. XS- squalida, Lindl. in Sot. Keg. 1841, Misc. 77 ; raceme elon- 

 gate many-fld., bracts equalling the ovary, sepals oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate, petals elliptic-oblong many-nerved, lip as broad as long sub- 

 equally 3-lobed strongly closely nerved, midlobe crisped retuse, disk naked. 

 Cyrtopera squalida, Heichb. f. in Bonpland. 1857, 38 ; Lindl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 31 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 668. 



PENANG ; on Govt. Hill, Curtis. SINGAPORE, Ridley. DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



Stem rooting from the base without a tuber. Leaves 8-12 by 1^-2 in., narrowly 

 lanceolate, some long-petioled. Scape 18-24 in., stout or slender ; sheaths appressed ; 

 sepals f-1 in. long ; lip -| in. across the side lobes, base rounded ; mentum conical. 



Lateral sepals inserted on tike foot of the column, free of the spur of 

 or nearly so. 



20. XS. bicarinata, Hook. f. ; raceme oblong densely many-fld., 

 sepals linear-oblong acute undulate, petals shorter broader many-nerved, 

 lip obovate-obloDg, side lobes narrow, midlobe large orbicular crisped, two 

 lateral nerves forming long calli at the base of the disk and with the 

 median nerve tubercled on the midlobe. Cyrtopera bicarinata, Lindl. in 

 Wall. Gat. 7363; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 189; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 31 

 (excl. cit. Ic. Griff.}. Epipactis ? bicarinata, Herb. Ham. Cymbidium, 

 Griff. Notul. iii. 343, No. 9 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 320, f . 3 (pollen). 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Gamble. ASSAM, Hamilton. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 2-3000 ft., 

 Clarke. MUNNIPOBE, Watt. UPPER BURMA, Griffith. 



Flowering before leafing. Scape 8-30 in., stout or slender ; sheaths inflated j 

 bracts slender, short or long; flowers resupinate, purplish brown, greenish or 

 yellowish ; sepals 1 J in. long ; lip longer than the sepals, tip rounded or notched ; 

 spur conical, obtuse. Flowers often streaked with pink. I have not seen leaves, 

 and Griffith does not describe them ; he says the flowers are purplish brown and the 

 lip broadly obtusely spurred. 



21. E- Candida, Hook.f.; flowering with the leaves, scape slender, 



