200 OECHIDACEM. [ EULOPHIA.. 



subacute. Column as long as the lip, slender, without a foot. Pollinia 

 broad ; caudicle stout ; gland elongate. Capsule in. long, ellipsoid. 

 Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh (Wallich, Duthie). 

 Flowers Mar. to May. DISTEIB. : Nepal, Sikkim, Chittagong,. 

 Bensal and Upper Burma, extending to Baluchistan and Afghanistan. 



6. E. nnda, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7371 ; F. B. I. vi, 5 ; HooL /. 

 in Ann. E. Bot. Gard. Calc. v, 32, it. 4750 ; K. & P. id. viii, 180,. 

 t. 243 ; Duthie id. ix, pt. 2, 127 ; Cool:e Fl Boml. ii, 694. 



Tuber large, spherical, smooth. Leaves 10-14 in. long, rising from the 

 side of a tuber and forming by their sheaths a short pseudo-stein, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute 1 , plicate, many-nerved, narrowed at the 

 base into a long tubular sheath. Flowering stem stout, erect, firm, 



' 2-3 ft. high, rising from the ba^e of the pseudostem, with a few loose 

 sheaths near the base and other more dl tant ones higher up. Racemes 

 lax, about 1 J in. long, man3 7 -fld. Flowers usually pale-green or white 

 with purple or pink or brownish markings ; floral bracts lanceolate, 

 acute, about half as long as the stalked ovary. Sepals about f in. 

 long, erect, greenish-purple, linear-oblong, acute, 7-nerved; lateral 

 pair slightly falcate, inserted on the spur of the lip, the dorsal one 

 rather narrower. Spur very short, conical, obtuse, purplish-green, 

 ribbed at the mouth. Petals shorter than the .sepals, white, obtuse*, 

 many-nerved. Lip as long as the sepals, white or pale yellow flush- 

 ed with pink or purple, o.blong ; side-lobes short, rounded ; midlobe, 

 oblong, obtuse, with a crisped margin ; disk with about 9 strong 

 prominent nerver. Column short, with a distinct foot, dilated at 

 the margins. Anther small, its apex with two small conical processes 

 and a third depressed one in front. Pollinia transversely oblong, 

 attached by a broad caudicle to a shallow gland. Capsule 1J in. 

 long, fusiform. 



N. Oudh, in the districts of Khrri and Gonda (Duthie's Collector).. 

 Flowers April-June. DISTEIB. : Trop. Himalaya from Nepal east- 

 wards to Sikkim ; also in Chota Nagpur, Assam, Khasia Hills, 

 Manipur and Burma, and south to Bombay Presidency and Ceylon. 



7, E. bicarinata, Hook. f. in F. B. I. vi, 6 ; K. & P. in Ann. R. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 180, t. 244 ; Duthie id. ix, pt. 2 9 127 ; Praia 

 Beng. PL 1016. Cyrtopera bicarinata, Lindl. 



Tuber about 2 in. long, compressed, irregularly lobed. Leaves usually 

 undeveloped at the time of flowering, 7-12 in. long, linear, acuminate, 

 narrowed below into the long petiole. Scape erect, 10-20 in. high,, 

 with two tubular inflated sheaths at the base and a few shorter one* 



