178 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
although, strange to say, it has not hitherto been recorded from the Province. The base 
of the lip forms а wide conical sac. "There is no true mentum, the lateral sepals being 
attached to the column. 
Prate 239.—Eulophia Mannii, Took. fil. A tuber, part of pseudo-stem, and raceme; of natural 
size. Sketch of entire plant ; much reduced. Fig. 1 sepals and petals shown apart, 2 floral bract, ovary, 
column and lip, seen from the side, 3 lip, 4 column with its short foot, anther i» situ and stigma, 
5 view of lower surface and interior of anther, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
8, EULOPHIA GENICULATA, King and Pantling in Journ. As. Soc, 
- Beng. ЫМУ, Pt. Ц, 997, 
. Tuber large, oblong-rotund. -Leaves about three апа а half feet in length, of which 
the petiole forms one-third; the blade narrowly elliptic, acute, plicate. Flowering scape 
about. 18 in. long, clothed throughout with sheathing bracts 1 to 3 in. long, and bearing 
at its apex a 6- to 8-flowered raceme. Flowers l in. in diam.; ‘foral bract lanceolate, 
acute, equalling the cylindric ovary. Dorsal sepal elliptic, blunt; the two lateral elliptic- 
lanceolate, sub-acute. Petals broadly oblong, blunt, shorter than the sepals, connivent 
over the column. Column rather broad, with no foot. Lip oblong, with long shallow 
side lobes, its body with three to five parallel thickened nerves which end beyond the 
extremities of the side lobes in a carunculate area on the truncate apical lobe; the base 
with a short geniculate spur. Anther small, bicornute at the apex, the lip 2-toothed. 
Sikkim, in the valley of the Teesta, elevation about 1,000 feet; flowering in 
August. 
The sepals of this are brown, the petals and lip pale yellow. The petioles of the 
two leaves form a pseudo-stem rather shorter than the scape, and they: are enclosed 
within two sheaths about 9 in. long. .This’pseudo-stem is bound to the scape near its 
base by two short broad sheaths which originate | from the tuber. The nearest ally 
of the species is E. lacknochetla, Hook. fil, 
PLATE 240.— Eulophia genieulata, King and рай. Parts of a plant, of natural sise. Entire 
plant; reduced in size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bract, stalked ovary, column with anther in situ and lip, 3 lip, 
4 front view of column showing the anther, the stigma. and the basal spur, 5 ж», 6 polline ай 
enlarged, ‚ 
4. ` EULOPHIA campestris, Wall, Cat. 7617. 
` Tuber irregularly oblong, lobed, horizontal. Leaves absent at flowering4ime, two, 
linear, acuminate, plicate, 10 to 16 in. long, and :4 in. broad at the middle, pro- 
ceeding from the apex of a slender sheathed pseudo-stem 6 in. long. Flowering ‘scape 
10 to 12 in. high, sheathed at. intervals by membranous acute bracts each :5 to 1 in. 
long; the raceme 2:5 to 3°5 in. long, rather dense. Flowers 1 in. across; ; floral bract 
membranous, linear, acuminate, longer than the slenderly-stalked ovary. Sepals wide- 
spreading, sub-equal, shlong: ао, the dorsal erect; the lateral pair inserted on the 
column, recurved. Petals narrower than the sepals. Jip equal in dew to tlie sepals 
- petals, elliptic or elliptic-obovate in general outline; the side з rounded, entire; 
the apieal lobe separated by a small sinus from the lateral, ау oblong, obscurely 
bifid, the margins irregularly dentate; the basal half of the dise with three sub-parallel 
