-202 ORCHID ACEM. [ EULOPHIA. 



Kumaon to Nepal, up to 5,000 ft. ; also in Chota Nagpur and Travan- 

 core, extending to Hongkong and China. 



e.B. o'btUBa.Hook.f.inF.B. I. vi., 3; Duthiein Ann. E. Bol- 

 Gard. Calc. ix, part 2, 129, t. 111. E. campanulata, Duthie in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixxi, part 2 (1902) 39. Cyrtopera obtusa, 

 Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orcli. 190. 



Height of plant 3-4 ft. ; the leaves and scape rising from a horizontal 

 oblong tuber. Pseudostem formed by the sheaths enclosing the 

 bases of the leaves and scape. Leaves two or three, 12-18 in. long, 

 linear, acuminate, plicate ; veins sharply prominent. Flowering stem 

 exceeding the leaves, with a few long tight-fitting acuminate sheaths 

 towards the base. Flowers six to ten, in a lax raceme, appearing 

 with the leaves, 1 J in. across, erect in bud, drooping and campanulate 

 -when open ; floral bracts acuminate, less than half the length of the 

 ovary. Sepals and petals prominently veined on the back, bright- 

 yellow outside, pale-lemon within ; dorsal sepal obovate, acute, 

 in. long ; lateral pair rather shorter, falcately oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, adnate to the foot of the column. Spur short, curved sub- 

 acute. Petals obovate, obtuse, about as long as the lateral sepals. 

 Lip 3-lobed, longer than the sepals; side-lobes suborbicular, erect, 

 whitish or pale-yellow, with lilac-coloured streaks at the base ; 

 midlobe bent upwards, the margin undulate. Disk with 5-8 promi- 

 nent white ridges terminating within the margin of the apical lobe 

 in a dull -yellow oblong grooved callus and prolonged towards the 

 base into two sets of free fimbriate projections. Column about 

 in. long, oblong, narrowly winged curving forward into a distinct 

 foot at the purple-streaked base. Anther with a rounded or slightly 

 emarginate apex and a long anterior projection. Pollinia subglobose, 

 attached by a cyl indric caudicle to a crenulated obconical gland. 



D ehra Dun, in swamps (W. Bell, Mackinnon, Duthie) ; Rohilkhand 



in the Pilibhit district, and at Chandanpur in the Gonda district of 



N. Oudh (Duthie's collector). Flowers during July and August 



DISTRIB. : Warm valleys in the vicinity of Mussoorie (Royle). 



After examining in the Royal Herbarium at Kew the single type 



specimen of Lindley's Cyrtopera obtusa,, as well as Faloner's excellent 



draw ing of the same plant under his manuscript, name of Eulophia 



arundinacea, I had no hesitation in referring to it the E. campanulata 



which was described by me in the Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. as a 



distinct species. Lindley was correct in his description of the 



<3ol umn and its distinctly produced foot characteristic of the Cyrtopera 



ec t/ on of the genus. 



