ms m
m TANDEM.
Scape erect, *5 to 5 dm. high with two tubular closely-fittiog slieaths at the base and
two shorter loose ooes higher up. Raceme 7'5 tu \2'5 cm. long, rather densely flowered.
Fioioers 2-0 cm. ia diam., pale yellowish-green, the lip tinged with paie purple; Jioral
brad membranous, lanceolate, ¡shorter than tho stalked ovary. Sepak oblong, acute,
heeled, their edges reflexed; lateral pair wider than the dorsal and £i-ee from it at
their bases. Felak elliptic, subacute, shorter but wider than the sepals. Lip aduate
to the foot o£ the column, longer than the sepals, slightly saccate at the base,
3-lobed; lateral lobes shallow, with blunt apices; terminal lobe transversely oblong,
eniargiaate, the edges slightly crisped; the disk between the side lobes with two short
smootti thickened lines half as long as the latter and ending in a free triangular tooth
in front of which rise five canmculate unequal ridges extending to the base of the
terminal lobe. Column with a foot half as long as itself and at right angles, edges
lobed opposite the stigma. Anther apiculate in front; poUinia broadly tiiangular,
divergent, attached by a broad caudicle to a thin angular gland. King & Pantl. in
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 180, t. 244. Cyrtopera bicarinata Lindl. in Wall.
Cat. 7363; G-en. and Sp, Orch. 189; Joum. Linn. See. iii, 31 (excl. cit. Ic. Griff.).
Spipaciis bicarinata Buch.—Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 7363, Cymbidium sp. Griff. Notul. iii,
3i3, No. 9.
I n the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Pilibhit in Rohilkhund, and of the Kheri district
o£ N. Oudh, Duthie's collector Nos. 22798 and 25803. Flowers during March and April.
I t extends eastwards to Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, Assam, Manipur and Upper Burma.
8 . EULOPHIA FLAVA H o o k . f. F l . B r , I n d . vi, 7.
A tall robust plant with a tuberous rhizome. Leaves about 3, forming when young a
short pseudo-atem by their sheathing bases, developing later than the flowers, attaining
when fully grown 12 dm. in length and about 10 cm. in width. Scape stout, 6 to 15 dm.
high, clothed at the base with a few distant close-fitting sheaths, emerging from a tuber
alongside the leaf-bearing pseudo-atem. Raceme 3 to 6 dm.; bracts much shorter than
the ovary, 1 to 2 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers numeroua, large,
drooping, lemoo-coloured. Sspah about 3 cm. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Fetah
a little shorter than the sepals and much broader, obtuse or emarginate, many-nerved,
i i y as long aa the sepals; side lobes large, rounded, spotted with purple at the base,
their margins recurved ; midlobe oblong, the disk with two small pyriform basal calli and
three crenate lamellai. Spiir a short blunt sac. Gdumn about 2 cm. long, produced at
the base into a short foot. Antlm- with an emarginate apex and a long anterior process;
foUinia obtusely angled, attached by a stent broad-based oaudiole to a broad shallow
gland. Curtopen J l a a Lindl. in Wall. Oat. 7364 ; Gen. and Sp. Orch. ISO ; Koyle 111.
370, t. 88, fig. 1; Ecichb. f. in Gard Chi-on. (1870), 1407; lioHo in Journ. Linn. Sec.
Sixvi. 28. C. Bulled Wight Ic. 1754; Walp. Ann. vi, 667. Dipodimi Jlavim Herb. Uam.
Dehra Dun, Bo}le, Maciinmn {Dathie'i No. 23725); Sub-Himalayan tracts in Rohilkhund
and N. Oudh, Duthk^i alkebr Nos. 2279S, 34143; outer ranges oi Garhwal,
Dtdhiis allxtor Nos, 35700, 25804, 25803, 35806; Kumaon, below Almora 4,500 feet,
atrmUs 4- -WmUrlottom No. 20; Sarju Valley, T. Ihomseu. Flowers in June and
J u l y . It extends eastwards to Nepal, and is found also in Travancore and Hongkong.
EULOPHIA. 129
PLATE 110. Eulophia ilava Hook. / . - E n t i r e plant, rcducd to ' in A« Portion „f
.nfloresconce, ^^^
3, hp, 4 front view of colnmn; 5, front view of anther; 6, side view of
d i t t o ; 7, •po\\\m&-,—all enlarged.
9. EULOPHIA OBTOSA H o o k . f. F l . B r . I n d . vi, 3.
L a Z : ••J' «>» ' " ' « a f t ' «"Closing the base, of the leaves and ecap;
Z r i s Z t r ° long tight-fitting acuminate " e a t h s
across, erect m bud, droopmg and campannlato when open; ßoml ka,! lanceolate
on the back, bright yellow outside and pale lemon-coloured within. Dor^l ^
obovate acnte, 2 cm. long; lateral rather shorter, faleately oblong, obtuse or nba at
base, s,de lobes large, erect, rounded, pale yellow tinged with lilac - m i L b e b ñt
upwards and w.th a refle.ed nndnlate margin, snborbicAr when gatt ned u d sk
w. h 0 to 8 promrnent r.dges terminating within the margin of the apical lobe in an
oblong grooved callus, and prolonged at the base into two sets of finger-uÍ pro e e t l ns
ha e. wrth a rounded or shghtly emarginate ape^ and a long anterior proiectien
snbglobose attached by a cyKndric eaudicle to a subfimbr ate J Z . Z ' Z'
K Falc. Ic. No. 46 (ined.) in Herb. Kew. K Duthif t I ™ ''
As. Soc. Beng. h x i , part 2 (1902), 39. Crtoperu oUma Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 19o!
VaDeys in the neighbourhood of Mussoorie, Bnjle; Dehra Dun in swamps, W. Edl
Machnnon (DntMe-, No. 23722), Dultie; Pilibhit district in Eohilkhand, DutL', colUOo'r
Nos^ 2079 to 2580, ; Chand.npur in the Gond. district of N. Oudh, ' t H Z
~¿íJó. r lowers dunng July and August.
He b.„un,, Kew, the .„gle tvp.-.p.oi„„ ot Liudlej'. oUu.., „eil „ l . w .
leu. d r ^ n e of He „ „ e pl.ut uuder M. „ . „ „ „ i p t „„„-„^ „ " d H i t
now no he.,t.liou m r.femng to it th. E. camp.nuUa DutWe, publi.k.d Isst year in tb.
,f a, ,f B,n3.l. Liadley äe..ribed tb. eoluma eoT.etly b.vL . producedTe
. . d I b.v. tberefor, pi.eed it here in tbe .eetion oí tb. g e L . It Í 1 elv L t'
E . Ä - , « . „ u g .bie% b, its „ueb n„„wer le.ve., .a..U,r flower. L i. the I p . „¡ tb ' „ '
R .om.wbst t,«>mU.. K Ma,mi Hook t , wbieh, iu r..a,d to th, l.n.H, „f (I . . . Í '
,u,-gbt we., b . . e been p,..ed iu tbe ~.iou. l l ^ f r . l p . ' - L ' l t / r t™
be .b„t, . . . t . .pur, . . w,ll . . tbe „tber, polliuia . . d gl.ud v j .iuril.r T , 1 X
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