Angracum.'] 
ORCHiDEiE. (S. Moore.) 
359 
Mauritius, sea-shore round Flacq and on Montagne Longue, Bojer ! Bouton ! 
Possibly a distinct genus, owing to its habit and column. The plant is said by 
Richard to be a parasite, but I _ think erroneously. Lindley’s Microccelia cxilis is 
evidently a congener. 
The following are indeterminable : — 
A. yucccefolium, Bojer, Hort. Maur. p. 318, of which I have seen neither descrip- 
tion nor specimen. 
A. ramosum, Thouars, Orch. Afr. t. 59, the figure of a plant without flowers. 
Apparently a new species near A. caulescent ?, Thouar3, from Rodriguez (Balfour), 
unfortunately rather too far advanced for description. 
19. EULOPHIA, B. Br. 
Sepals and petals free, spreading, usually equal and similar. La- 
bellum free from the column, generally 3-lobed, crested or bearded on 
the inner face, spurred or saccate at base. Column elongate, 
winged at the sides. Anther 1- or 2-celled. Pollen-masses 2 ; caudicle 
short; gland transverse. — Terrestrial (occasionally epiphytical?), 
usually pseudobulbous herbs. Leaves usually large, membranous and 
many-nerved, or long narrow and grass-like. Flowers small or large, 
in racemes or panicles. Distrib. A genus of many species, natives 
for the most part of tropical and subtropical Africa, India, and the 
Malayan Archipelago, and very sparingly represented in Australia and 
the tropics of the New World. 
Leaves membranous, two or more to each pseudobulb. 
Flowers about 1 in. diam. 
Leaves subdistichous, several together sheathing the 
pseudobulb, 1 in. (or less) broad. Flowers panicled. 
Mid-lobe of labellum papillose ; spur ± in long, 
entire 1. E. scripta. 
Leaves twin, crowning the pseudobulb, 2 in. broad. 
Flowers racemed. Mid-lobe of labellum glabrous ; 
spur in- long, bifid 2. E. pulchra. 
Leaves fleshy, solitary. Flowers £ in. diam 3. E. monophyila. 
1. E. scripta, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. p. 182. Pseudobulbs 
oblong-ovoid, clothed with the sheaths of the leaves, at length 3 in. 
long. Leaves several to each pseudobulb, subdistichous, narrow 
oblong, acute, many-nerved, 6£ in. long, fin. broad, (“ 8-9 in. long. 1 in 
broad,” Bichard) ; sheaths with membranous edges. Scape erect from 
the side of the base of the pseudobulb, bearing a lax panicle of monoe- 
cious flowers; bracts oblong, f in. in length; pedicels patent, fin. 
long. Sepals and petals subequal, ovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, \ in. 
long, yellowish-green with large purple or brown spots. Labellum 
nearly \ in. long, yellow with purple-brown spots, with two longitudi- 
nal raised lines expanding into flat plates near the centre ; lateral lobes 
embracing the sides of the column, rotundate, glabrous or with few 
papillae near the end ; mid-lobe obovate, crenulate or emarginate, 
papillose towards the end ; spur at right angles to the labellum, entire, 
f in. long. Column of the <$ fl. slender, incurved, f in. long, with 
two basal folds overlapping in the middle line ; stigmatic rudiment 
subtriangular ; of the $ fl. stout, straight, nearly f in. long 
