EULOPHIA. 127 
Abundant in many places along the base of the Western Himalaya, Flowers from 
March till May. It extends throughout the plains of Upper India, southwards to the 
Deccan and eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bengal and Upper Burma. 16 occurs also in 
Afghanistan and Baluchistan. 
The wide distribution of this species in India, extending, as it does, from the arid districts of 
the N.-W. Frontier to the moist regions of Bengal, Sikkim and Upper Burma, accounts for the 
great variety of forms met with throughout its area. As а rule the specimen from N.-W. India _ 
are altogether more robust than those met with farther east. Plate 24 of the Sikkim Orchids 
represents the more slender condition of the species, and the plant is figured as producing leaves, 
which rarely develop in the drier parts of India. Тһе tubers of this plant are largely collected 
in N.-W. India, and are believed to form the bulk of the commercial product known as 
Salep-misri, 
6, EULOPHIA NUDA Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7371; 
Tubers large, spherical, smooth. Leaves from the side of a tuber, forming by their 
sheaths a short pseudo-stem, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 95 to 95 dm. long, the breadth 
variable, many-nerved, sheath long and tubular. Scape 6 to 9 dm. long, fro mthe base of 
the pseudo-stem, with a few wide sheaths at the base and several distant ones above. 
Raceme long, laxly flowered. Flowers about 3 cm. long, usually pale green variegated 
with brown and pink; floral бғасі lanceolate, half the length of the stalked ovary. 
Sepals erect, oblong, acute, the lateral pair falcate. Petals shorter than the sepals, ovate- 
oblong, blunt, the outer nerves branching. Jip as long as the sepals, deflexed from 
below the middle, oblong; basal lobes obscure, terminal lobe oblong, obtuse, undulate, 
the upper surface with many vertical thickened lines disappearing towards the apex; 
spur short, flattened, its mouth ribbed, Column short, produced at the base into a long 
foot dilated at the margins. Ал и” small, its apex with two small conical 
processes and a third depressed one in front; pollinia 2, transversely oblong, attached by 
a very broad caudicle to a narrow gland. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 180; Hook. f, 
Е], Br. Ind. vi, 5; in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. v, 32, tt. 47 to 50; King & Pantl. in 
Ann. Roy. Bot, Gard. Cale. viii, 180, t. 243; Rolfe in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxxi, 29. E. 
bicolor Dalz. in Hook, Kew Journ. Bot. iii (1851), 313; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 264; 
Walp. Ann. vi. 647. Cyrtopera fusca Wight Ie, 1690; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc, iii, 31; 
Thwaites Enum, 429; Walp. Ann. l. с. 668. Cyrtopera plicata Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7362; 
Gen, and Sp. Orch, 190, С. nuda Reiehb, f, in Flora (1872) 274. С, Gardneri 
Thwaites Enum. 302. C. mysorensis Lindl. in Journ. Linn, Soe. iii, 32. C. laziftra 
Gard, MSS. ex Thwaites Enum. 302, Dipodium Roniata and D. plicatum Herb. Ham. 
Northern Oudh, in the districts of Kheri and Gonda, Duthie’s collector Nos, 22793, 
24143, 24144, Flowers April to June, It extends southwards to Bombay, Central and 
S. India and Ceylon, and eastwards to Sikkim, Assam, Burma and China; it is found 
also in Moulmein. | 
7. EULOPHIA BICARINATA Hook. f. Fl. Br, Ind. vi, 6. 
Tuber oblong, irregularly lobed, compressed, about 5 cm. long. Leaves absent at the. 
flowering time, linear, acuminate, long-petioled, length of blade 1:8 to 3 dm. long. 
