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Eulophia (From eulophos handsome-crested)

(from eulophos, handsome-crested; referring to the handsome labellum or lip, which is furrowed into elevated ridges). ORD. Orchideae. A numerous genus of stove terrestrial orchids, a few of which are pretty. Flower-scapes either simple or branched, bearing few or many flowers; sepals and petals nearly equal; lip pouched or spurred, with an entire or trilobed limb, bearded or crested in the middle. Leaves grassy, or lance-shaped and plaited. For culture, see Calanthe.

E. Dregiana (Drege's). fl. produced on spikes sepals; and petals chocolate-colour; lip white. Cape of Good Hope.

E. euglossa (pretty-lipped). fl., sepals and petals green, lanceolate, acuminate, nearly equal, spreading; lip trifid; lateral segments semi-ovate, acute, greenish-yellow; middle segment semi-oblong, acute, somewhat crisp, white, with some radiating purple streaks on the base; spur clavate, green. l. cuneate. oblong, acute, 1ft. long. Old Calabar, 1866. A rather curious plant, requiring plenty of heat to flower it successfully. (B. M. 5561.) E. guineensis (Guinea). fl. whitish-pink; lip membranous, complete; spur ascending. May to November. l. lanceolate, nerved. h. 1ft. Sierra Leone, 1822. E. Helleborina (Helleborine). See Habenaria Helleborina. E. macrostachya (large-spiked). fl. shortly pedicellate, 1in. in diameter across the lateral sepals, erecto-patent; lip very concave, golden-yellow, with red-purple stripes on the disk, broader than long, obtusely shallowly three-lobed. January. l. about two, from the top of the pseudo-bulb, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, contracted into a petiole, membranous, plaited, about three-ribbed. Pseudo-bulbs elongate, conical, terete, striated. Ceylon, 1837. A very desirable plant, on account of its late flowering. (B. M. 6246.) E. virens (greenish). fl., sepals and petals yellowish-green, tessellated with brown lines, nearly equal, oblong, bluntly pointed, narrowed at base; lip longer than the petals, white, with purple streaks, three-lobed, the lateral ones being shortened, and the central one crisp at margin, obtuse and recurved at apex, and furnished with rows of dark hairs along its disk; spur short, conical. Pseudo-bulbs roundish-ovate, 2in. to 3in. long, bearing several narrow grassy leaves. Ceylon, 1866. (B. M. 5579.)