Culant/n'.] CXXVII. ORCHIDEA.. 1545 



lamina spreading, lobed or undivided, the disk with several tubercles or callosities 

 opposite the anther. Column erect, the margins connate with the labellum, the 

 rostellum usually rostrate. Anther lid-like. Pollen-masses 8, tapering to the 

 base and there affixed to a divisible gland. — Terrestrial herbs, stemless or nearly 

 so. Leaves large, plicate, usually in tufts of 2 or 3. Scapes in the axils of 

 the outer leaves tall, erect, and many-flowered. Flowers often showy, white or 

 lilac. 



The genus is dispersed over tropical Asia and the Islands of the Pacific, with one Mexican 

 species ; the only Australian species extends over the Archipelago] and the East Indiaa 

 Peninsula. 



1. C. veratrifolia (leaves Veratrum-like), R. Br. in Bot. Ueij. under n. 

 573 ; Benth. Fl. Amtr. vi. 305. Rhizome shortly creeping, with tufts of 2 

 or 3 leaves, sometimes forming a very short stem or pseudo-bulb at the base. 

 Leaves 1 to 2ft. long, ovate-lanceolate, plicate undulate and strongly ribbed, 

 tapering into a petiole which is again dilated at the base. Scapes usually in the 

 axil of the outer leaf, 2 to 4ft. high, the flowers rather crowded near the summit. 

 Pedicels spreading, | to lin. long, recurved after flowering. Sepals and petals 

 white, obovate-oblong, nearly 5 lines long, the petals usually broaier and more 

 contracted at the base than the sepals. Labellum much longer, the spur slender, 

 fin. long and usually pubescent, the lamina3-lobed with the middle lobe deeply bifid, 

 the 4 lobes oblong and sometimes nearly equal, but variable in breadth as well as 

 in the relative depth to which they are divided, the callosities of the disk yellow. 

 Capsule obovoid-oblong, about liin. long. — Bot. Reg. t. 720; Bot. Mag. t. 

 2615 ; Fitzg. Austr. Oreh. i. Pt. 4." 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, 1'. i. Mueller; very 

 common in coastal scrubs. 



14. EULOPHIA, R. Br. 



(Alluding to the handsome crested labellum.) 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, spreading, free or the lateral sepals adnate to 

 the short basal projection of the column. Labellum inserted at the base of the 

 column or its projection but free from it, produced at the base into a short pouch 

 or spur, the lamina B-lobed or rarely undivided, the disk usually marked with 

 cristate or bearded veins. Column semi-terete, with the front angles acute or 

 winged. Pollen-masses 4 in pairs, or 2 and bifid, waxy, attached to a short linear 

 caudicle on a transverse gland. — Terrestrial herbs, with short stems. Leaves 

 distichous, plicate, or sometimes those of the flowering stems reduced to sheathing 

 scales. Racemes terminal or on radical scapes. 



The genus is spread over tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa. The Australian species 

 are endemic. 



Stems leafy. Leaves 2, narrow grass-like on long petioles. Labellum 

 veins branched, starting from 3 or 4 raised ribs on the disk ; 



middle-lobe broader than long 1. E. agrostojiliijlUt. 



Leafless herbs. 



Labellum strongly and darkly veined, the middle-lobe much broader 



than long 2. E. reiwsa, 



Labellum finely veined, the middle as long as broad S. E. FitzuUtni. 



1. E. agrostophylla (leaves grass-like). Bail. Proc. Roy. Sac. Ql. xi. 

 Rhizome of irregular form, resembling a ginger rhizome, thick, fleshy, whitish, 

 stained here and there with purple, attaining a length of 4in. and a breadth of 

 liin. Leaf bearing stem slender, compressed, about 2 lines broad, with 2 long- 

 sheathing scales which cover the lower 4 or 5in., and then 2 grass-like leaves 

 on long petioles, together attaining a length of 2ft. but not over 7 lines broad 

 at the widest part, prominently ribbed, 3 of these much more prominent than the 

 others. Scape 2ft. high, slender ; the sheathing scales near the base about lin. 



