EULOPHIA GUINEENSIS PURPURATA. 
[PuaTE 89. } 
Native of West Tropical Africa. 
Terrestrial. Pseudobulbs short, roundish-ovate, marked near the apex with one 
or two annulate scars, indicating the bases of former leaves. Leaves with an 
oblong-oblanceolate acuminate blade six inches long, narrowed below into a_ petiole 
of about half the length, somewhat plicate. Scape arising from the base of the 
pseudobulb, twelve to fifteen inches high, including the raceme of seven to ten 
flowers, furnished at intervals with pale brown sheathing “bracts, which become 
smaller upwards. Flowers pedicellate, spurred, remarkable for their narrow dark 
sepals and petals and their broad highly-coloured lip; sepals about an inch long, 
linear acuminate, deep rosy purple, the lateral ones spreading horizontally; pet 
directed upwards between the erect dorsal and the spreading lateral sepals, and 
similar to them in size, form, and colour; Jip three-lobed, the front lobe roundish- 
ovate pointed, about an inch and a quarter in length and in breadth, wavy at the 
margin, of a rich bright magenta, traversed by deep crimson flabellate veins, which 
become deep rosy purple as they converge towards the base when they suddenly 
stop, the extreme base being white; the side lobes are short and blunt, of a pale 
blush. Spur slender, deep purple, three-fourths of an inch long. Column bent 
forward, rosy purple, slightly keeled at the back. 
_ EULOPHIA GUINEENSIS PURPURATA, Reichenbach fil., in Kotschy’s Plante Binderiane 
Nilotice Aithiopicee, 3; K otschy, Plante Tinneane, 63. 
Eulophia is a small genus of Orchids of which a few species are known in 
cultivation. The one we now describe is a most beautiful and distinet variety of 
a species which was cultivated many years since, and one that everyone may 
admire. Our drawing was taken from a specimen in the grand collection of Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Burford Lodge, Dorking. It is a very rare plant, and 
18 most difficult to import from its native habitats. It is also supposed to be — 
to establish, but it is so rare that few persons have had the opportunity to "7 
it, Sir Trevor Lawrence manages to cultivate it very successfully, and - zh € 
also seen it well grown in the collection of H. Shaw, Esq., of Buxton, w : 
also flowered it, We have heard of very few other plants, and, therefore, we & 2 
like to see a good importation of it, as many cultivators would, we are quite sure, 
be glad to possess such a gem. | 
__ Eulophia guineensis ane produces small oval-shaped i ies oo . 
light green plicate foliage, ten inches or a foot in height. a reaches to a 
Produced from the base of the bulb with the young growths, an 
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