6 oxLviii. OROHiDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \_EulopMa. 



or purple, sepals linear-obloug acute, petals shorter elliptic-oblong many- 

 nerved, lip obovate-oblong obtuse, side lobes obscure, midlobe rounded or 

 retuse crisped, disk crested witb many crenulate or tubercled iiervfs. 

 E. bicolor, Dalz. in Sook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. (1857) 343 ; Bale, of (^^bs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 264 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 647. Oyrtopera fusca, Wight Ic. t. 1690 ; 

 Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. 31 ; Thwaites Enum. 429 ; Walp. I. c. 668. 

 C. pUoata, lAndl. in Wall. Cat. 7362 ; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 190. 0. nuda, 

 Reichb.f. in Flora 1872, 274. 0. Gardneri, Thwaites Enum. 302. 0. myso- 

 rensis, Lindl. in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. iii. 32. 0. laxiflora, G-ardn. mss. 

 Dipodium Koniayte & plicatum, Rerh. Ram. — ? Sheede Sort. Malab. xu. 

 t. 26. 



Teopicai Himalata, from Nepal eastwards, Assam, the Khasia Hills, 

 MuNKiPOEE, Pesu and Tbhassbkim. Uppbb Bubma (fieri. Sort. Galcut.). 

 The DeOCAN PeniksttIiA ; from the Concan southwards. CetioN ; in the Central 

 Province. 



Tuber large. Leaves 10-14 in., elliptic-lanceolate, very variable in breadth. 

 Scape 1-3 ft., stout ; sheaths appressed ; bracts rarely equalling the ovary ; sepals 

 lin.; mentum rounded or conical; lip shorter than the sepals. Cwpsule\^in., 

 fusiform. — There may be more than one species here, so great are the differences in 

 colour of the flower, from a pale green to a dull purple. There is in Herb. Wight 

 a very fleshy-flowered species or variety ( 0. Srunoniana, Wight mss.) from the Kaitea 

 Palls (Nilghiris), with a root as large as the fist, the lip with a short horn and a 

 linear-obloDg pointed shaggy disk ; its sepals are green and petals and lip white. 



19. Zi. squalida, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1841, Misc. 77 ; raceme elon- 

 gate many -fid., bracts equalling the ovary, sepals oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate, petals elliptic-oblong many-nerved, lip as broad as long sub- 

 equally 3-lobed strongly closely nerved, midlobe crisped retuse, disk naked. 

 Oyrtopera squahda, Reichh. f. in Bonpland. 1857, 38 ; Lindl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iii. 31 ; Walp. Ann. vi. 668. 



Pbnang ; on Govt. Hill, Curtis. SufOAPOEE, Bidlet/. — Disibib. Malay Islands. 



Stem rooting from the base without a tuber. Leaves 8-12 by 1^2 in., narrowly 

 lanceolate, some long-petioled. Scape 18-24 in., stout or slender ; sheaths appressed ; 

 sepals |-1 in. long ; lip f in. across the side lobes, base rounded ; mentum conical. 



** Lateral sepals inserted on the foot of the column, free of the spur of 

 the lip or nearly so. 



20. E. bicarinata, Sooh. /. ; raceme oblong densely many-fld., 

 sepals linear-oblong acute undulate, petals shorter broader many-nerved', 

 lip obovate-obloDg, side lobes narrow, midlobe large orbicular crisped, two 

 lateral nerves forming long calli at the base of the disk and with the 

 median nerve tubercled on the midlobe. Oyrtopera bicarinata, Lindl. in 

 Wall. Gat. 7363 ; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 189 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 31 

 (excl. cit. Lc. Griff.). Epipactis ? bicarinata, Herb. Ram. Oymbidium 

 Griff. Notul. iii. 343, No. 9 ; Lc. Plant. Asiat. t. 320, f . 3 (pollen). 



SiKKiM iins.AJiA.YA, Gamble. AssAn, Samilton. Khasia Hiils, alt. 2-3000 ft 

 Clarke. Mtjuhipobe, Wait. Uppeb Btjema, Griffith. ' ' '' 



Flowering before leafing. Scape 8-30 in., stout or slender ; sheaths inflated ■ 

 bracts slender, short or long; flowers resupiuate, purplish brown, greenish or 

 yellowish ; sepals IJ in. long ; lip longer than the sepals, tip rounded or notched ■ 

 spur conical, ohtuse. —Flowers often streaked witb pink. I have not seen leaves' 

 and Grifiith does not describe them ; he says the flowers are purplish brown and the 

 lip broadly obtusely spurred. 



21. E> Candida, Rook.f.; flowering with the leaves, scape slender 



