18 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). [ Eulophia, 
with the base or foot of the column, sometimes a little contracted 
above the base, 3-lobed or entire ; base usually variously saccate or 
spurred ; side lobes erect or sometimes nearly obsolete ; the middle 
one sprea ; 
ete! smooth. Column short, stout, the base sometimes produced 
into a more or less distinct foot, to which the lateral sepals are 
united, forming a mentum; anther-bed oblique, erect, entire. 
Anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, semiglobose, conical or 
pollinia 4, ovoid, united in pairs, affixed to a broad stipes and 
gland. Ca psules ovoid or oblong, rarely elongated, with prominent 
oo angles 
Terrestrial herbs or rarely epiphytes ; stems leafy at the base, creeping, o 
thickened into rhizomes, sometimes forming aérial pseudobulbs ; leaves etlchaets 
often narrow and elongated, usually onan ne condupli icate and coriaceou : 
scapes or peduncles lateral, variously sheathed below, racemose or rarely paniculate 
~—: flowers small, medium-sized or sometimes large, usually lax ; bracts small 
J seers 
Species over 200, chiefly in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of 
re old World, ‘with Hoes hea eadquarters in in Africa, About 70 South African ome 
are known, he ques vel ey representatives are scarcely less numerou 
e limits of the genus are difficult to define, but I have included Cy yrtopera, 
Li nd. cad I Fulophidiom, Pfitz. The first was characterised by having the column 
prolonged at the base into a distinct foot, to which the latera 
* = rk . 
e now given 
up by common consent. Hulophidium was sepa: Julophia, and referred 
to Masillariew, chiefly on account of its non-plicate leaves, but'the flora = seb ee 
is completely that of Lulophi set tani Br ever, which is 
united with La ia, is here retained in the Flora of Tropical Aires, ean. 
in the main well characterised by the ek pi wads sepals and much larger erect 
South African species have: been much migacttia and have never been the 
subject of any complete revision. The flowers are often v. membranous, and 
the fleshy crests and appendages of the lip are ohinnigioo much tantly the e process 
of drying, and are so difficult to restore by goss ap ie the details of colour are 
lost, arg ‘it has been very difficult i in som define ub limits, and a 
stud ement. Several 
err Ae are very "imperfectly known, and a few of the old species seem to ise 
been lost sight of. The genus is commended to those ‘ 
of studying it in the field. E. a ee (Reichb. f. i Fie, m 543), 
nd E. sclerophylla (Reichb, f. in gage © Ee ane included = 
- rpg egg they A otctert inn. Sor. 
secribiad in 
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but abl: y 0c 
a phper 6 n Comoro Istand Orchids, 
snd although iis hathet & Is beni they jeotabhy come fork that 
not plicate, variegated... aes fee nf ; Mtecbe ii, 
Leaves Lapses or strongly veined, not variegate 
oer —— » aérial pseudobulbs ad fleshy 
sepeie: paocttn ry ites if sae or circinate 
at the apex ; wly pandurat 
ss ina ng, PPE ca at the apex ; 
pandurate Oi os on dae (3) circinata, 
Plants met pervect ehinomes and more or leas 
membranous leayes ; 
(2) caffra. 
Pe Se 
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