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slightly saccate at the base, 3-lobed; lateral lobes shallow, broad, with blunt apices; apical 
lobe transversely oblong, emarginate, the edges slightly crisped; the disc between the side 
lobes with two short smooth thickened lines . half as long as the latter and ending in а 
free triangular tooth in front of which rise five carunculate unequal ridges which run on 
to the base of the. apical lobe. Column erect, its edges lobed opposite the stigma, its 
foot half as long as itself and at right angles. Ané/er apiculate in front. Pollinia 
broadly triangular, divergent, attached by a broad caudicle to а thin angular gland. 
Cyrtopera bicarinata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 7363; Gen. and Spec. Orch., 189; in Journ. 
Linn. бос. ІП, 31 (ezel. cit. Je. Grif.) Cymbidium sp., Griff. Notul. III, 343, No. 9. 
Sikkim, at the foot of the range; in flower during March and April; Pantling, 
No 435. 
There is а large form of this which, as it differs from the ipe: -form in some other 
respects than size, we have made a variety. 
Var. major; larger than the type, with larger tituli, Stouter scapes, Жама flowers 
(1:33 in. in expanse), in a less dense raceme; the lip with a dense cluster of callosities 
in front of the lamellz. 
Sikkim, at the foot of the range; in flower during March and April; Pantling, 
No. 436. 
The sepals and petals are of a pale yellowish-green. The basal half of the lip is of 
the same colour, the apical lobe being of & very pale purple at the margins. 
` ı Phare 244.—Eulophia biearinata, Hook. fil. A plant; of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral 
bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, 3 lip, 4 column with its foot, and spur, 5 empty anther seen from 
below, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
PLATE 244 bis.— Eulophia bicarinata, var. major, King and Pantling. A plant; of natural size, Fig. 
1 a flower, 2 profile view of bract, stalked ovary, column and lip, 3 lip, flattened out, 4 column, 5 back 
view of anther, 6 back and front views of the pollinia; a// enlarged. 
35. Geodorum, Jackson. 
_ Terrestrial, with underground sub-globose rhizomes. Leaves elliptic, күк their 
sheaths forming a pseudo-stem. Scape from the base of the pseudo-stem, stout, erect, 
sheathed, bearing a decurved corymbose raceme. lowers rather crowded and narrow, 
about *5 in. long. Sepals equal, oblong, sub-acute, erect. Pe/als as long as)the sepals, 
but broader and blunt. Zip sessile on the base of the column, not narrowed at the | 
callus-bearing base but broadly ventricose, without side lobes; the apical lobe broad, 
rounded, bifid or emarginate. Column less than half the length of the lip. Anther broad, 
two-celled. Pollinia 2, broadly and dimidiately ovoid, attached by a tapering slender 
eaudicle to a small orbicular gland. Species about 10; Indian, Malayan and Australian. 
‚А. genus of terrestrial orchids closely allied to Eulophin, having a similar habit and lip. The genus 
is less closely allied to Cremasira, but has a very different lip. In the latter the lip has a long narrow 
Vil expanding at the apex into two acute lateral and one oblong terminal lobe, the latter having а large 
ligulate process near its base. In the present genus the lip is deeply ventricose at the base, there are no 
side lobes, and the terminal lobe at the apex of the sac is orbicular and without any ligule. 
` GEODORUM PURPUREUM, R. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. 2, V, 207. 
Tuber globular, apiculate, 1:25 in. in diam.  JPseudo-fem 3 to 6 in. long. Leaves 
elliptic, acute, tapering to the long sheath, 6 to 12 in. long and 3 to 4 in. broad. 
