Eulopliia.] cxLViii. oechibejb. (J. D. Hooker.) 6 



Scape 6-18 in., stout or slender from a deformed tuber j sheaths subapprossed, 

 acute ; flowers many, subsecnad ; sepals slightly attached to the base of the lip, 

 variable in breadth, acute or acuminate, yellow or green striped with pink j petals 

 narrower ; lip as long as the sepals, side lobes rounded or subacute, midlobe usually 

 purple; spur conical, subelavate or subacute ; column rather slender. Capsule ^ia,, 

 ellipsoid. — The lip of E. hemileuca is rather tubercled than spinulose. 



14. Zi. stenopetala, lAndl. in, Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 26 ; scape- sheaths 

 loose, bracts longer than the ovaries, raceme few-fld., sepals ^ in. linear- 

 oblong 5-nerved, petals lanceolate acuminate 3-nerved, lip broadly cuneate, 

 side lobes rounded much larger than the suborbicular crisped midlobe, disk 

 with 3 nerves tubercled between the side lobes and on the midlobe. 



Bhotan HlMAliATAj dry hills at Punaka, Griffith. 



Scape 12-18 in., slender; sheaths obtuse; bracts ^-f in.; lip as long as the 

 sepals, spur clavellate. — Specimens indifferent. Very near H. campestris, but the 

 lip is much broader and side lobea more spreading. 



15. E. deciplens, Crriff". in Jowm. As. Soe. Beng, xlvii. 155, 1. 13, 

 f . 8-12 ; flowers secund, bracts minute, sepals and petals | in. linear 

 hardly falcate acute 5-nerved, lip obovate concave 3-lobed above the middle, 

 midlobe much the largest, margin crisped, disk 5-nerved at the base, 10-13- 

 nerved in the middle of which 4-5 form fleshy fibres on the midlobe, spur 

 short slender saccate. 



NiooBAE IsiAHDS ; at Kamorta, Xurz. 



Scape 2-£t ft. ; root tuberous ; sheaths small, lanceolate. Leaves not seen. 

 Saceme 3-4 in. ; pedicel with ovary J-J in. ; sepals and petals white ; spur -Jj in. — 

 "Closely resembles Fachystoma senile, but polUnia oi Enlophia," I have seen no 

 specimens. 



16. E. densiflora, Lindl. in Jown. Linn. Soe. iii. 25 ; scape robust, 

 bracts shorter than the ovaries, sepals 1-1| in. narrowly oblanceolate 

 acuminate, petals narrower, lip obovate-oblong, side lobes small rounded, 

 midlobe orbicular, disk with 8 lamelliform nerves which are orenate or 

 interrupted from the middle to near the apex, spur long slender. 



SiKKiM HiMAiAXA ; at the foot of the hills, J. V. H. Bhotan, Griffith. 



Scape 1-3 ft., from a depressed tuber; lower sheaths obtuse, upper acuminate ; 

 raceme many-fld. ; flowers secund, deflexed, very narrow ; column short. — The long 

 narrow flowers are very characteristic of this species. 



17. E. burmanlca, Hook. f. ; scape robust, sheaths short loose, 

 raceme many- and dense-fld., bracts filiform equalling the ovary, sepals 

 ^ in. oblong obtuse many -nerved, petals narrower 3-nerved, lip cuneately 

 obovate, side lobes short rounded, midlobe small ovate, disk with 2 carun- 

 culate nerves. 



UrpER Burma; Bhamo, Griffith. 



Tuber or base of scape oblong. Scape 14 in.; sheaths 1 in. ; raceme 4 in. ; bracts 

 4^-1 in., almost capillary, reflexed; pedicel with ovary as long ; spur conical; column 

 short ; poUinia globose. — A remarkable species, of which there is but one very bad 

 specimen, with twisted scape ; it is possibly near E. macroiullon. 



Sect. II. Cyrtopera. Column produced into a foot. 



* Lateral sepals inserted on the spur of the lip {see also C. explauata). 



18. E. nuda, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7371 ; Gen. Sf 8p. Orchid. 180 ; 

 tall, raceme elongate many-fld., bracts various, flowers large green 



