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Tribe— VANDE-^. 



SUB-TRIBE EULOPHIEM. 



Terrestrial herbs, rarely e'pijphyte, with leafy stems often thickened 

 into pseudo-bulhs. Leaves few, lolicately-veined, often narrow. Racemes 

 simple, rarely branched* 



EULOPHIA. 



R. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 686 ri822). Benth. et. Hook. Gen. Plant. III. p. 535 (1883). 



Eulophia includes more than fifty species dispersed over tropical 

 Africa and the Indo-Malayan region, but very few of them have 

 been introduced into European orchid collections, and these are 

 cultivated chiefly in botanic gardens. The genus is noticed here 

 solely for the purpose of inserting the type species which is a very 

 handsome one, and, in a horticultural sense, the best Eulophia yet 

 seen in cultivation. 



Eulophia guineensis. 



Pseudo-bulbs clustered, sub-globose, approaching ovoid, 1|- — 2 inches 

 in diameter, monophyllous. Leaves elliptic-oblong or linear-oblong, sub- 

 acuminate, 7 — 10 inches long, narrowed below into a slender petiole, 

 one-third to one-half as long as the blade. Scapes stoutish, pale green, 

 24 — 36 inches long, racemose along the distal half, many - flowered ; 

 cauline bracts sheathing, 2 inches long ; floral bracts much smaller, 

 linear, acuminate. Flowers 2 inches across vertically ; sepals and petals 

 similar and equal, and but slightly divergent from each other, Ihiear, 

 acuminate, twisted, greenish purple, sometimes rose-purple with paler 

 margin ; lip of peculiar shape and structure, three-lobed, the side lobes 

 small, adnate to the column at their superior margin, and forming with 

 it a funnel-shaped cavity that is prolonged into a slender spur as long 

 as the pedicel and ovary ; the front lobe large and spreading, sub- 



* This sub-tribe includes but three genera, viz., Eulophia, from evXotpog, "handsomely 

 crested," in reference to the crest of the tj'pe species; Lissochilus, from Xifrrroc, "smooth," 

 and x^'^^oc, "a lip"; and Galeandra, a hybrid word from the Latin galea, "a helmet," but 

 this perhaps from yaXerj, and av))p avcpog, "an anther," in reference to the helmet-like cap 

 of the anther. It is, however, a very natural sub-division of the Vande^. 

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