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РглтЕ 110. Eulophia flava Hook. f.—Entire plant, reduced to } in size, Portion of 
inflorescence,—of natural size, Fig. 1, single flower; 2, ditto, with sepals and petals removed ; 
3, lip, spread out; 4, front view of column; 5, front view of anther; 6, side view of 
ditto; 7, pollinia ;—all enlarged, 
9. EULOPHIA optusa Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 3. 
Height of plant 9 to 15 dw., the leaves and scape rising from a horizontal oblong 
tuber. Pseudo-stem formed by the sheaths enclosing the bases of the leaves and scape. 
Leaves two or three, 3 to 45 dm. long, linear, acuminate, plicate, veins sharply prom- 
inent. Scape exceeding the leaves, with a few long tight-fitting acuminate sheaths 
towards the base. Flowers 6 to 10, in a lax raceme, appearing with the leaves, 9-5 сш. 
across, erect in bud, drooping and campanulate when open; floral bract lanceolate, 
acuminate, less than half the length of the ovary. Sepals and petals prominently veined 
on the back, bright yellow outside and pale Jemon-coloured within. Dorsal sepal 
obovate acute, 2 cm. long; lateral rather shorter, faleately oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
adnate to the base of the column. Petals obovate, obtuse, about as long as the lateral 
sepals. Lip 3-lobed, longer than the sepals, with a short curved subacute spur at the 
base; side lobes large, erect, rounded, pale yellow tinged with lilac; midlobe bent 
upwards, and with a reflexed undulate margin, suborbicular when flattened out; disk 
with 5 to 8 prominent ridges terminating within the margin of the apical lobe in an 
oblong grooved callus, and prolonged at the base into two sets of finger-like projections. 
Column about 1 cm. long, oblong, narrowly winged, curving into a short foot at the 
base. Anther with a rounded or slightly emarginate apex and a long anterior projection ; 
pollinia subglobose, attached by a cylindric caudicle to a subfimbriate triangular gland. 
Е. arundinacea Fale. Іс. No. 46 (ined,) in Herb. Kew. AE. campanulata Duthie in Journ. 
As, Soc. Beng. lxxi, part 2 (1902), 39. Cyrtopera obtusa Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 190. 
Valleys in the neighbourhood of Mussoorie, Royle; Dehra Dun in swamps, W. Beli, 
Mackinnon (Duthie’s No. 22722), Duthie ; Pilibhit district in Rohilkhand, Duthie’s collector 
Nos. 25793 to 25801; Chandanpur in the Gonda district of N. Oudh, Duthie’s collector 
29793. Flowers during July and August. 
Since my return from India this year, I have had an opportunity of examining at the Royal 
Herbarium, Kew, the single type-specimen of Lindley's Cyrtopera obtusa, as well as Falconer’s excel- 
lent drawing of the same plant under his manuscript name of Eulophia arundinacea, and I have 
now no hesitation in referring to it the E. campanulata Duthie, published last year in the Journal 
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Lindley described the column correctly as having a produced foot, 
and I have therefore placed it here in the Cyrtopera section of the genus. It is closely allied to 
E. fiava, differing chiefly by its much narrower leaves, smaller flowers and in the shape of the spur. 
It somewhat resembles E. JMannii Hook f., which, in regard to the length of the foot of the column, 
might well have been placed in the Cyrtopere section. Іп both of these species the narrow leaves, 
the short, acute spur, as well as the anther, pollinia and gland are very similar. The locality 
“ad ripas flum'ris Tonse prope Deokhutal" menticned in Liudley's Gen. and Sp. Orch. 190, refers 
to E. flava and not to E. obtusa. 
Ann. Вот. Bor. Gan», Catc., Vor. ІХ 
