180 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
6. EULOPHIA NUDA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 7371; Gen. and Spec. Orch., 180. 
Tuber spherical, smooth. Leaves from the side of the tuber, forming by their 
sheaths a short pseudo-stem, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, variable in breadth, 10 to 14 
in. long, the sheath long and tubular. Scape from the base of the pseudo-stem, 2 to 
З feet long, with a few wide sheaths at the base and several scattered upwards. Raceme 
few- and laxly-flowered; floral bract lanceolate, half the length of the stalked ovary. 
Sepals oblong, acute, erecto-patent, the lateral pair falcate. Petals ovate-oblong, blunt, 
shorter than the sepals, the outer nerves branching. Jip as long as the sepals, deflexed 
from below the middle, oblong, the side lobes suppressed, the apical lobe oblong, much 
undulate, obtuse; the upper surface with many (usually about nine) vertical thickened 
lines disappearing about the middle. The base of the lip dilated, suddenly contracted to 
a short flattened spur the entrance to which is ribbed. Column short, with a long 
foot dilated at the margins. Anther small, its apex with two small conical knobs and 
a third depressed one in front. Pollinia 2, transversely oblong, attached by a very 
broad caudicle to a narrow gland. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. V, 6; in Ann. Bot. Gard., 
Calcutta, V, 32, tt. 47 to 50. E. bicolor, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Jovsi Bot. III (1851), 
343; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 264; Walp. Ann. VI, 647. Cyrtopera flava, Wight 
Ic., t 1690; Liudl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 31; Thwaites Enum., 429; Walp. Ann. 
1. c., 668; Cyrtopera plicata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 7362; Gen. and ‘Spec. Orch., 190. 
C. nuda, Векнь. fil. in Flora, 1872, 274. С. Gardneri, Thwaites’ Enum., 302. С. 
mysorensis, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Bas III, 39. C. laxiflora, Gard. MSS. ex Thw. 
Enum., 302. Dipodium Roniata and D. plicatum, Herb. Ham. | 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys, at elevations up to 1,500 feet; in flower from April to 
July; Pantling, No. 212. 
This is a widely distributed and variable species. The Sikkim form has the sepals 
and petals pale green, the former with brown markings externally. The lip is of a very 
pale green at the base, becoming white at the middle and flushed with pink near the 
apex. The column is white and the anther is brownish. In the fifth volume of these 
Annals, Sir Joseph Hooker has given an account of four distinct forms of this species 
which are found in Burma, the first of the four being the one which seems to agree most 
closely with the plant from Nepal originally named Ё. nuda by Lindley. The varieties 
are all figured by Sir Joseph in the volume alluded to. 
PLATE 248 —Eulophia nuda, Lindl. A plant; of natural siza. . 1 sepals and ‘petals separated, 
2 part of rachis, bract, ovary, column with anther i» situ and i x po and its foot, the wither 
in situ, front view, 4, pollinia, al? enlarged. 
7. EuLoPHIA BICARINATA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 6. 
Tuber oblong, irregularly lobed, compressed, about 92 in. long. Leaves absent at 
flowering time, linear, acuminate, much narrowed to the long petiole; length of blade 
Т to 12 in., breadth about "75 in.; petiole 6 to 8 in., sheathed at the base. Scape erect, 
10 to 20 in. high, with two tubular closely fitting sheaths near the base and two shorter 
loose ones higher ар. aces? rather densely flowered, 3 to 5 in. long. Flowers 1 in: 
in diam.; floral bract. membranous, lanceolate, shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals 
oblong, acute, keeled, their edges reflexed, the lateral pair slightly wider than the 
dorsal and free from it at their bases, Petals narrowly elliptic, sub-acute, shorter but 
wider than the sepals. Lip adnate to the foot of the column, longer than the sepals, 
