8 OXLVIII. ORCHIDE;E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eulophia. 



tracted above the broad rounded base, then dilating into the rounded side lobes, 

 margins of midlobe crisped and orenate. 



25. E. sanguinea, Hook. f. ; flowers large, sepals ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate, petals snorter elliptic apiculate many-nerved, lip short, side 

 lobes rounded, midlobe orbicular or ovate, disk with many crenulate 

 nerves. Cyrtopera sanguinea, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 32 ; Sot. Mag. 

 t. 6161. 



SIZKIM and BHOTAN HIMALAYA, alt. 2-5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 5000 ft., Mann. 



Flowering before leafing. Scape 6-10 in., stout ; sheaths loose. Raceme 6-12-fld. ; 

 bracts slender, about equalling the ovaries ; flowers If in. diarn. 5 disk red purplish 

 or brown ; lip white, pink or green ; spur large, broad, obtuse ; petals (always ?) 

 with an apiculate notch at the apex j top of anther obscurely notched, pollinia 

 ovoid. Leaves unknown. 



26. E. andamanensis, ReicJib. f. in Flora 1872, 276; raceme 

 lax-fld., bracts short, sepals linear-lanceolate 3-5-nerved acuminate, petals 

 rather broader obtuse 3-nerved, side lobes of lip obtuse, midlobe large 

 broadly clawed orbicular crisped retuse, disk with the 3 median nerves 

 thickened between the side lobes, all other nerves thick divaricating and 

 much branched. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



Stem at the base tuberous, with thick roots. Leaves short during flowering, 

 linear-lanceolate. Scape 1-2 ft. ; sheaths short ; bracts shorter than the pedicels ; 

 sepals f in. long ; lip shorter than the sepals, white with green edges and nerves ; 

 spur conic, obtuse ; anther 2-tubercled. This much resembles E.virens, but the 

 leaves are much broader, and the column produced into a foot. 



SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 



CYRTOPERA EUFA, Thwaites Enum. 302 ; rootstock tuberous, leaves not seen, 

 scape 2 ft. reddish, sheaths 3 distant, bracts narrowly lanceolate equalling the ovary, 

 flowers rufous 2 in. diam., sepals oblong-lanceolate acute rather longer than the 

 obovate acute petals, lip cucullate, nerves within pilose, side lobes obtuse, midlobe as 

 long rounded apiculate, spur short obtuse, column linear slightly contracted in the 

 middle, capsule 2| in. long oblong. Ceylon, at Hantani, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites 

 (C.P. 3566). 



E. ATRO-VIRENS, Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 183, described by Lindley from a 

 drawing made for Wallich in the Calcutta Garden, and hence supposed to be a native 

 of India, is a Mauritian species, E. monophylla, Spens. Moore in Baker's Flora of 

 the Mauritius, p. 360 (where it is erroneously confounded with the Brazilian 

 E. maculata). 



EULOPHIA sp., Trimen Cat. PL Ceyl. 89 (C.P. 3958). Not named or described. 

 I fail to recognize the following Eulophias described in Griffith's Notula?, vol. iii. 

 p. 162, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 285, f . 2 ; p. 263 and t. 285, f. 2 ; p. 266 and t. 285, f. 3 ; 

 p. 350 and t. 351 B, f. 14. 



40. ClTttlBXDXUlK, Swartz. 



Epiphytes, rarely terrestrial ; stem very short, rarely elongate and 

 pseudobulbous ; roots tufted. Leaves very long, narrow and coriaceous, 

 rarely short. Scape loosely sheathed ; flowers often large in suberect or 

 drooping racemes. Sepals and subequal petals free, erect or spreading. 

 Lip sessile at the base of the column and embracing it upwards, base 



