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purple, and witli three prominent keels extending from the base to the apex. It 

 flowers in September and October. — -Philippine Islands : Mindanao. 



FiGt. —OrcJdd Aniim,iii. 1. 124 ; Z'lUust. Burt., Hrd ser., t. 532 ; Gard. Chron., n.s., 

 XX. p. 440, f. 67-68 (habit and inflorescence) ; V OTcUdnpUU, 1884, p. 109 (plate); 

 Beicheiihachia, ii. t. 62; Bot. Mag., t. 6983; Veitch's Man. Orch. PI., vii. p. 103 

 Jmrn. of Sort., 1892, xxiv. p. 469, f. 80. 



Syn. — Vanda Sanderiana. 



E. SANDERIANA ALBATA, Rclib. f. — This variety has the upper sepal and 

 petals white, with a few purple spots at the base ; the petals pale yellow at the 

 base, lateral sepal veined and spotted with red. 



E. SANDERIANA LABELLO-VIRIDI, Lind. et Bod.— A variety with a green lip 

 striped with crimson, in other respects like the type. 

 Fig. — Lindenia, i. t. 40. 



EULOPHIA, Robert Brown. 

 (Tribe Vandeae, subtriho Eulophieae.) 



A genus of terrestrial Orchids, having leafy stems, which sometimes 

 become thickened into pseudobulbs at the base, the leaves distichous and 

 plicately nerved, and in the genuine species producing leafless scapes 

 from the base of the stem, some few anomalous species, however, 

 flowering from the apex of the leafy stem. Among the Vandaceous genei'a 

 with pseudobulbs and plicate leaves, its chief peculiarity is the presence 

 of a gibbose sac or spur at the base of the lip. The fifty species which 

 are known are most abundant in Tropical and South Africa, the others 

 occurring in Tropical Asia, with one or two in Australia, and an erratic 

 species appears to have been found in Brazil. 



Cultvre. — Of this large genus there are not many species in cultiva- 

 tion ; indeed, the greater portion are not sufficiently showy to render 

 them worthy of the attention of amateurs with limited space, yet there 

 are some very pretty ones. They are best grown in pots, in a compost 

 of good fibrous loam, leaf soil, and sand, with the addition of a little 

 charcoal. The temperature of the Cattleya house will be found to 

 suit them best. Propagation is effected by separating the pseudobulbs. 



E. DREGEANA, Lindley. — This species, which flowered in the collection of 

 Lord Eversley, at Heckfield,.is well worth growing. It has thick fleshy rhizomes, 

 and is of free habit, with ensiform acuminate leaves, and erect scapes bearing 

 many-flowered dense racemes of flowers which resemble little doves hanging by 

 their beaks ; the sepals and petals are chocolate colour, and the oblong three- 

 lobed lip white. It will do in a frame or greenhouse, and requires similar 

 treatment to the terrestrial Oypripediums. — South Africa. 



E. GUINEENSIS, Loddiget. — This is unquestionably the most orn&mental 

 species in cultivation, the others which we have seen, several in number, all 



