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f-rpal, lying parallel over the column, narrowly oUong, tapering to 

 the base and apex. Lip oblong, 3-lobed, tumid ; side-lobes narrow, 

 truncate at the apex, puberulous and with two lon^ tapering ridges 

 at their junction with the disk ; terminal lobe oblong, acute, recurved, 

 slightly 2-ridged, glabrous. Column erect, its foot at right angles 

 to and longer than its body. Ovary pinki* h and densely pilose. 

 Pollinia small, compressed, attached to two granular rrembranes- 

 Capsule cylindric, 1J-1? in. long. 



Dehra Dun (Duthie, Mackinnon) ; flowering in April. DISTRIB. : 

 Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal up to 4,CCO ft. and eastwards 

 to Bhutan; also in Chota Nagpur. In Sikkim specimens the base 

 of the lip, on both surfaces, and the foot of the column are often 

 blotched with reddish-purple. 



10. EULOPHIA, R. Br. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 1. 



Terrestrial glabrous herbs with fleshy tubers or rhizomes rarely 

 pseudobulbous. Leaves appearing with or after the flowers, long 

 narrow and usually plicate. Flowers in racemes, rarely panicled, 

 on a tall erect sheathed usually lateral scape. Sepals free, spread- 

 ing, subequal. Petals somewhat similar to the sepals. Lip adnate 

 to the base of the column or to its foot, saccate or shortly spurred 

 at the base ; side-lobes erect, embracing the column, rarely sup- 

 pressed ; midlobe spreading or recurved; disk usually ridged or 

 crested. Column with or without a foot, its apex entire and often 

 oblique, the margins occasionally winged or lobed. Anther terminal, 

 2-celled, sometimes with two apical processes; pollinia 2, globose,, 

 attached by a caudicle to the flat gland of the rostellum. Species 

 over 300, in tropical or subtropical Asia and Africa. 



Column not or only slightly produced into a 

 foot : 



Leaves appearing with the flowers : 



Lip with a short bent spur ; bracts as long 

 or longer than the ovary : 



Sepals spreading, linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, green ... 1. E. herbacea. 



Sepals erect, ovate-obtuse, yellowish- 

 brown . . . . . . 2. E. Mackinnoni^ 



Lip saccate at the base; bracts shorter 



than the ovary . . . . . 3. E. explanata. 



