92 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
PLATE 46. 
EULOPHIA EXPLANATA, Lindl. 
Е, explanata; scapo aphyllo, bractis subulatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis oyato- 
oblongis acutis basi labelli breviter adnatis, petalis latioribus ellipticis acutis 5-nerviis, 
labello oblongo v. subpanduriformi basi saccato apice truncato emarginato v. 2-lobo 
carinis 3 crassis carunculatis percurso; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid. 180; Hook. f. Fi. 
Brit. Ind. vi. З et in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 1882. Dipodium scariosum, Herb. Нат. 
 Has.—NrPar; at Maghela, in the Morung, Hamilton. N.-W. INDIA, Falconer (Ie. in 
Herb. Hort, Calcutta). 
Leaves not fully developed at flowering time, afterwards 4—6 in. long, oblong-ovate, 
acuminate, plicate. Scape 4—8 in., rather stout, 4—10-fld., sheathed at the base; bracts 
1—1 in, appressed to the pedicel, which with the ovary is about 2 in. and مم‎ 
flowers او‎ 1 in. diam. Sepals and petals widely spreading or recurved, pale pur- 
plish-brown with a broad райе сещта| band and base; lip as long as the sepals, basal 
part or -hypochil with a broad conical obtuse sac and short broad auricles; epichil 
spreading, golden yellow with the sides trausversely barred with short recurved red 
nerves. Column short, stout. Pollinia globose, strap short, gland small orbicular. 
A very interesting plant, only known for many years by a solitary specimen in Lindley’s Herba- 
rium, labelled as a native of Ceylon, where it was unknown to all Cingalese botanists. and collectors. 
On examining the Orchidese of. Buchanan-Hamilton’s Herbarium, now at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 
and kindly lent to me when preparing the Orchidee for the Flora of British India, I found a „specimen 
of a Eulophia so precisely the counterpart of that in Lindley’s Herbarium of E. explanata as to leave no 
doubt that (as in a good many other cases) -Lindley’s habitat was an error; and I consequently 
figured it in the “Icones Plantarum” (1882) as a Nepal plant. I now find the excellent figure here 
reproduced of the same species in the Calcutta Herbarium collection of drawings, which confirms the Nepal 
habitat, and enables me-to give the colour of the flowers. > Ав a species .E. explanata is perhaps nearest 
to E. bracteosa, Lindl.. (including Е. grandiflora, Lindl. ) а native of the Khasia Hills, Chittagong, eto., 
end to which Lindley has also assigned the erroneous habitat of Ceylon; it differs from that plant in the 
short bracts, the sepals not rounded at the tip, and in the petals and lip being by no means obovate. 
The Calcutta drawing here reproduced bears the inscription “ ‘P Ania, Nepal (date and origin uncertain),” 
It represents 8 much larger specimen than Hamilton’ 8. 
Fig. 1, flower. with the sepals and petals detached ; 2, anther; 3 P 4, pollinia : ial? 0 
PLATES 47, 48, 49, 50. 
17010۶57۸ (Cyrtopera) NUDA, Lindl. 
+. ین‎ elata, robusta, rhizomate tuberoso crasso, scapo aphyllo paucivaginato, 
racemo laxifloro, floribus magnis suberectis, perianthii foliolis conniventibus falcatis 
у, apicibus recurvis, sepalis lineari-oblongis lanceolatisye acutis v. acuminatis, . petalis 
brevioribus . oblongo-ovatis obtusioribus, labello erecto hypochilio: basi saecato, sacco 
conico incurvo obtuso v. subrotundato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, epichilio тобап- 
dato v. late spathulato retuso v. breviter bilobo marginibus crispato-crenatis, disco 
_ nervis crenulatis plus minusve cristato, anthera late conica latiore quam longa apice 
| 3-loba,  polliniis oblongis divaricatis caudicula brevi lata, 0001 transversa, Lindl, in 
