122 YA^'DE^.
t h e column, 3-Iobed ; basal lobes falcately ovate, obtuse ; midlobe rather shorter,
deeply bifid, with three rows of prominent warts on its disk : sjmr cylindric, a little
longer than the pedicelled ovary, puberulous and with a few white hairs at its
entrance. Oolwnn broad. J?olUnia 8, cohering in fours to a granular viseus. Stigma
divided into two segments at the entrance to the spur. Ovary minutely pubcsceiit.
Westeru Himalaya, Falconer (Kcw Disti-ib. No. 1054) ; near Mussoorie in shady
forest at about 6,000 feet, Mackinnon {DiUMe s Nos. 21742 and 22714).
Falconer's speDimen in the Kew Ilerbarium is very imperfect and iu bud only.
PLATE 104. Calanthe pachystalix Rduhb. /.—A plant,—of natiiral sise. Fig. 1, a
single ñower seen from above; 2, ditto with the sepals and petals removed; 3, the
lip; 4, column; 5 and 6, back and front views of auther; 7, pollinia ;—all enlarged.
7. CALASTHE PLASTAGINEA Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7346.
Slem 7-0
0 2o cm., enclosed within long tubular sheaths. Leaves 2—3 dm. long
cm, broad, usually enlarging as the fruit ripens, oblaneeolate or
and 4 to i
elliirtic-lanceolate, tapering below into the long petioles. Peduncle from ,the axil of
one of the developing leaves and overtopping them, stout, many-flowered ; ¡ledicel
with ovary about 2'5 cm., very slender ; bracts small, lanceolate. Flowers drooping,
about 3 cm. across, lilac or white, sweet-scented. Sepals oblanceolate, acuminate, 3—ónerved,
glabrous. Petals similar to the sepals but smaller, 3-nerved. Lip about us long
as the sepals, purple, the disk witli 3 slender lamella? ; side lobes rhomboid-obovate,
subfalcate ; midlobe cuneately reniform, apiculate. Spur very slender, as long as or
longer than the ovary. Rostellum of two projecting plates. Lindl. Gen. aiid Sp.
Orch, 250 ; Sort. Orch, t. 24; Fol. Oreh. 9 ; Walp, Ann. vi, 920 ; Royle 111. Him. Bot.
366 ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. v, 853 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 494.
Punjab Himalaya in Chamba at 7,000 feet, Lacc No. 1328 ; Garhwál at 9,000 feet,
Royh Ecrb. ; Mussoorie range, Falconer ; in shady forest below Mussoorie froai 4,000
to 6,000 feet, Maekmnon Nos. 21741, 22716) ; Tonsc Valley at 6,500 feet,
Duthie 24149 ; Kumaoa at 9,000 feet, Strachey ^ Winterhottom No. 17. Flowers in
March and April. It extends eastwards to Nepal and Bhutan.,
PLATE 105. Calanthe plantaginea Lindl—k plant,—of natural sise. Fig. 1, a single
flower; 2, lip; 3, column with lower part of lip and upper portions of ovary and spur
attached; 4, pollinia ;—all enlarged.
13. E u l o p M a R. Brown.
Terrestrial glabrous herbs with fleshy tubers or rhizomes, rarely pseudo-bulbous.
Leaves appearing with or after the flowers, usually plaited. Scape generally lateral.
Flowers in racemes, rarely panieled. Sepals and petals free, spreadiug, often sub-equal.
Lip adnate to the base of the column or to its foot, saccate or shortly spurred at
the base, usually 3-lobed, the lateral lobes erect and embracing the column, disk
usually ridged or crested. Column with or without a foot, its apex entire and often
oblique, the margins sometimes winged or lobed. Anther terminal, often with two
apical processes, and its lip often toothed, 2-colIed. Pollinia 2, globose, attached by
EULOPHIA. 123
Oobmn «ol OP only «KgbHj. prodmei into a foot
Lflavos and flowers eoetaneous or nearly so;—
Lip wiili a short geniculate spur, bracts as long as or
longer than the ovary:—
Sepals spreading, linear.l.nceolate, acuminate, green 1. E. r,„-b,„a.
Sepal, erect ovate-oblong, obtuse, yellowish . . . g. R
Lip saccate at the base, bracts shorter than the
* ' * * * ' * ' • * . . . . < ? « E. ezplOiHfxtci
i;lowers appearing before the leaves;—
Flowers in ooudensed racemes, terminal lobe of lip
yellow ^ E^rrrns ' -
Flowers smaller, in lax racemes i 7?" ,
Cola™ prodnced into a distinct f o o t , - '
Laleral sepals inserted on the spur, basal lob.s ol lip
ohsoure ^ ^^^^
lateral sepal, inserted on the foot of the'oohmn,' li^ ¿ h
distmot basal lobes
Howers not «.e.diag cm. in dianr., greenish.
yeUo. tinged with pnrple
tlowers large, bright yeUow
Terminal bbe of Up half as long as the basal
lobes, S-kmsUate; , p „ sooo.t«, bknt . . . . 8. S. Jl„.
terminal lobe of lip twice a. long as the rounded
basal obes, many.lamellata; spur short, curved,
3. E. oltma.
1. EDLOPHU HDEBACEi Lindl, (Jan. and Sp. Orch. 182.
with LL; „, ¡ r c o ^ t ' i i tr;?^^ " " " WH^ mmmmmm
Jonr-n. Linn. S„o. iii, of D a , . ) . U n o ^ J l J ^ ^ / j ^ '
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