The Flora of British India, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Flora of British India, Vol. 6

Terrestrial quite glabrous hcrb3; rhizome tuberous, rarely psoudo-bulbon3. Leaves appearing with or after the flowers, plaited. Scape lateral, flowers racemose, rarely paniclcd. Sepals audpetals free, spreading. Lip erect from the base or foot of the column; base saccate or with a mentum or short spur; lateral lobes erect, embracing tho column, rarely 0; mid lobe sprcuding or recurved; disk crested, softly spinous or lamellate. Column snort or long, top oblique, entire; anther terminal, 2-collod; pollinia2 or 4, sessile or attached by a short strap to a discoid gland of the rostellum.-Species about 50, tropical, chiefly Asiatic.

I follow Blame, and others, in removing Cyrtopera from Ct/rlopodium (where it is placed in Gen. Plant.), and including it as u section under Rulophia, there being a direct passage from the species with, to those without, a foot to the column. In sect. Cyrlopera the lateral sepals are inserted either on the foot of the column, leaving the spar or sac of the lip free, or their insertion extends aloug tho spur, which then is technically a racntum. The perianth of F.ulophia is undislinguishablc from that of Dipodium, Geodorum, Plocoglottis, and Tainia, of which the two first might but for habit be united with it; the two latter differ in having creeping rhizomes, usually solitary leaves, aud more than 2 poUiuin. Chrysoglossum resembles a Eulophia with the polliuia free from the rostellum.

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