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EULOPHIA gracilis. | 
_ Slender Eulophia. | 1 ont 
GYNANDRIA MONANDIIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussieu gen. 61. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. IV. 
Anthera terminalis mobilis decidua. Massx pollinis demim cereacez; 
Brown in Hort. Kew. 2. 5. 205. 
EULOPHIA. Brown supra vol. 8. fol. 686. 
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. gracilis, scapo gracillimo, foliis lanceolatis trinerviis 3-plo longiore, cal- 
care clavato, labelli lobo medio obsoleto. Lindley MSS. 
Herba terrestris. Bulbi contct vestigiis asperis foliorum vestiti. Folia 
3-5, disticha, rigida, angusté lanceolata suberecta pedalia basi inflata bul- 
bos vaginantia, nervis tribus primariis, 4 secundarits, illis subtis promi- 
nentibus. Scapus teres, gracillimus multiflorus foliis triplo longior post an- 
thesin bractearum vestigiis tuberculatus. Flores in spicd sparsim dispositi; 
luteo-virides, intis pallidiores, rubro paululum suffust bracteis lanceolatis 
acuminatis ovario duplo breviort: deciduis, suppositis. Corolle petala pa- 
tentia, ovata, acuta, interiora pauld minora. Labellum pendulum infundi- 
buliforme, calcare apice clavato, lobo medio obsoleto fimbriato. Columna 
libera, antice plana, margine subciliato, ovata, d fronte in rostellum produc- 
tum desinens. Gynizus transversus excavatus. Anthera terminalis, opercu- 
laris, decidya, unilocularis, infra apicularis, antice rostro suo glandulam 
polliniorum tegens, postice juxta cardinem elongata purpurea. “Pollinia 2, 
dorso semibiloba, glandule filiformi affixa. Lindley MSS. 
Obviously distinguished from Evnopuia guineensis (vol. 
8. fol. 686) by its narrow rigid leaves and very long scapes, 
which remain in flower for many months. ‘The middle lobe 
of the labellum is obsolete, and its place supplied by a 
few minute processes resembling a fringe. 
The plant was sent from Sierra Leone, in 1822, by Mr. 
George Don, collector in the service of the Horticultural 
Society; and has been in flower in the garden of this So- 
ciety at Chiswick for nearly all the summer through. Lind- 
ley MSS, ° 
A ground species (not parasitic: not growing upon trees 
or other bodies). Bulbs conical, enveloped in the hardened 
rugged permanent bases of the leaves. Leaves 3-0, two 
opposite stiff, narrowly lanceolate, nearly upright, a foot 
high, covering the bulbs by the enlargement of their per- 
manent remnants; primary nerves 3, secondary 4, the 
