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two inches across. — New Grenada: Antioqida, on palm stems 

 fully exposed to the sun — elevation 4,000 to 5,000 feet. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4437; Pescato7-ea, t. 20; Annales de Gand, 1849, 

 t. 253. 



EULOPHIA, Robert Brown. 

 {Tribe Vandese, subtribe Eulophiese.) 



A genus of terrestrial Orchids, having leafy stems, which 

 sometimes become thickened into pseudobulbs at the base, 

 the leaves distichous and plicately nerved, and in the genuine 

 species producing leafless scapes from the base of the stem, some 

 few anomalous species, however, flowering from the apex of the 

 leafy stem. Among the Vandeous genera with pseudobulbs 

 and plicate leaves, its chief peculiarity is the presence of a 

 gibbose sac or spur at the base of the lip. The fifty species 

 which are known are most abundant in Tropical and South 

 Africa, the others occurring in Tropical Asia, with one or 

 two in Australia, and an erratic species appears to have been 

 found in Brazil. 



Culture. — Very few species of this interesting genus are 

 known in cultivation. They are best grown in pots, in a 

 compost of good fibrous loam, leaf soil, and sand, with the 

 addition of a little charcoal. The temperature of the Cattleya 

 house will be found to suit them best. Propagation is effected 

 by separating the pseudobulbs. 



E. guineensis, Loddiges. — This is unquestionably the most 

 ornamental species in cultivation, the others which we have 

 seen, several in number, all producing inconspicuous flowers. 

 The bulbs of E. guineensis are broadly pear-shaped, from an 

 inch to an inch and a half in height, and from their crown 

 proceed two leaves which are elliptic-lanceolate, plicate, and 

 stalked. The flower scape is erect, three feet high, produced 

 from the base of the pseudobulb, and terminates in a raceme 

 of from seven to twelve flowers ; the individual flowers are 



