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differs in having proportionately broader bracts, a much shorter spur, 
shorter and less tapering petals, and the lobes of the rostellum contiguous. 
From the former it also differs in the shape of the lip which is very 
similar to that of the latter. The flowers are much less purplish than in 
either; green being the prevailing colour, and the white border round the 
hood very distinctive. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES XIV-XVII 
PLATE XIV 
Eulophia violacea, Reichenbach f. 
Fig. 1, flower, front view, sepals removed; 2, column and petals, back view; 3, lip, flattened; 
4, column and lip, side view; 5, 6, column, side and front views; 7, petal, flattened; 
8, side sepal; 9, odd sepal — all magnified. 
PLATE XV 
Eulophia Meleagbis, Reichenbach f. 
Figs. 1, 2, side sepal, inner and outer surface; 3, petal — x 2; 4, lip, flattened — x 6; 5, do., 
side view; 6, column and lip, side view; 7, column — all x 4. 
PLATE XVI 
Cynokchis Macloughlinii, L. Bolus. 
Fig. 1, flower, side view; 2, bract; 3, side sepal; 4, odd sepal; 5, petal; 6, lip — all x 3; 7, 
column and lip, side view — x 4; 8, 9, column, front and oblique views — x 25; 10, do., 
side view — x 20; 11, pollinium, enlarged. 
PLATE XVII 
Disa Stokoei, L. Bolus. 
Figs. 1, 2, side sepal, outer and inner surface; 3, odd sepal — nat. size; 4, petal; 5, 6, lip 
flattened and side view — -x 3; 7, column, petals, and lip, side view — x 2; 8, 9, column, 
front and side view — x 3; 10, pollinium — x 2. 
