34 ORCHIDE (Rolfe). | Eulophia. 
short, with a few rather large flowers ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, about } in. long; pe —* 3 in, long ; sepals spreading, 
elliptic-oblong, pe ee nearly ? in. long; petals rather broader 
than the sepals, otherwise similar ; "ip 3-lobed, as long as the sepals ; 
side lobes broadly rounded-oblong ; front lobe obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
much longer than the side lobes ; disc with 3 to 5 fleshy crenulate keels 
from below the middle upwards, baiede imei in three high lamelle 
in front ; spur oblong, obtuse, } in. long ; column clavate, } in. long, 
base prolonged into a short foot, forming with the side oo of by 
lip a br short mentum. Bolus in Journ, Linn. Soe. xxv, 18 
Reichb. in Walp. Ann. vi. 644; Durand &é Schinz, Conyac ve 
Coast Reeion: Riversdale Diy. ; hills near the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 
6764! 
28. E. Saundersiz (Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 368) ; rhizome and 
leaves not seen ; upper part of scape with two oblong sheaths, lower 
part not seen ; raceme short, nice 6-flowered ; bracts ovate, shortly 
acuminate, }—} in. long ; pedi icels #-1 in in, long, rather stout ; flowers 
rather large, "yellow and brown spotted sprporeiet 8 ; Sepals spreading, 
clliptis oblong. obtuse or subapiculate, 3-7 in. long; petals broadly 
elliptic, obtuse, much shorter and broader than the sepals ; lip 
quadrate, obtuse or truncate, shorter than broad, very closely veined ; 
front lobe broadly elliptic- oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, as 
broad as long, closely veined; disc with about 7 approximate 
thickened verrucose or shortly papillose keels ; spur broadly oblong, 
obtuse, stout, } in, long, straight or slightly curved ; column broadly 
oblong, 4-4 in, ‘Tong. 
EastERN Recion: Natal; without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders, 1! 
29. KE. barbata (Spreng. Syst. iii. ded tubers subglobose, #—1 in. 
broad ; leaves 4 or 5 in a tuft, suberect or recurved, narrowly 
ensiform or linear, acute, 4-10 in. ry ae } in. broad ; scape erect, 
compressed, 6-12 in. long, with numerous lanceolate acute imbricate 
sheaths ; racemes 3-4 in. long, many-tlowered ; bracts lanceolate, 
acuminate, 4—} in, tong ; flowers about ? in , long, green and white 
pedicels $—? in. long ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, }—3 in, long 
green ; rans elliptic—oblong, subobtu use, about twice as broad as the 
sepals, white ; lip more or less distinctly 3-lobed, broadly elliptic, 
rather shorter than the tals, white ; side lobes sho ort, —— 
rounded ; front lobe broadly rounded, obtuse or truncate ; disc 
with 3 to 5 thickened much fimbriate keels extending to ama the 
middle of the front lobe; spur oblong, obtuse, } in. or more long ; 
column clavate, ae in. long; anther-case obscurely 2-lobed.. 
Naturhist. pra Wan XX, i, E. ovalis, Lindl, Comp. Bot, 
