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Eulophia (SYN Orthochilus This genus)

SYN. Orthochilus. This genus embraces nearly fifty species. To those described on pp. 538-9, Vol. I., the following should now be added: E. guineensis purpurata (purple). fl. handsome, in a loose raceme; sepals and petals dark, dull purple, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate; lip bright rose-purple, the front lobe elliptic-ovate, acute. Pseudo-bulbs globose, two or three-leaved. Western tropical Africa, 1883. A showy plant. (W. O. A. ii. 89.) E. megistophylla (largest-leaved). fl. greenish-yellow, lined with brownish-red, panicled; sepals lanceolate, narrower than the petals; lip four-lobed, the lobes obtuse; spur very short, cylindrical; sheath ample, ochreous, oblong, acute. l. mor than 1ft. long and 9in. broad, petiolate, cuneate-oblong, acute. Comoro Islands, 1885. A striking species. (R. H. 1887, p. 87.) E. pulchra divergens (pretty, diverging). fl. purple-spotted, showy; sepals and petals oblong-linear, acute; lip going out into two diverging shanks; spur short and straight; raceme erect, many-flowered, equalling the leaves. l. oblong-lanceolate. Isle of Bourbon, 1884. The typical plant is not in cultivation.