31 £< F. Fedde. 



breviores; pedunculi 3—8 cm longi; bracteolae interdum foliaceae; pedi- 

 celli 3—5 cm longi. Sepala 4 vel 5, oblonga, intus alba, glabra, extus 

 praecipue ad margines, cinereo-villosa ; filamenta glabra, complanata, 

 7 mm longa; antherae 2 mm longae. Achaenia immatura sericea. 



West Hupeh, Wilson, 713, 1442, 1603, 2310; Ichang, Henry, 

 4185, 4308 (?); Nanto and mountains to northward, Henry. 



61. Pycnostachys Dawei N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron., 3. ser., XLI 

 (1907), p. 18. 



Herba 4—6 ped. alta, laxe ramosa. Rami tetragoni puberuli. Folia 

 12 — 30 cm longa, 1,2 — 4 cm lata, petiolata, anguste lanceolata utrinque 

 longe angustata, acutissima, serrata, utrinque tenuiter puberula. Spicae 

 terminales, dense multiflorae, 3—12,5 cm longae, 3,5 cm diam. Bracteae 

 9 — 11 cm longae, anguste spatulato-lanceolatae, acuminatae, incurvae, 

 longe ciliatae. Calycis tubus parvus, glaber, inter dentes in lobulas 

 minutas ciliolatas productus; dentes 6 (fructu usque ad 10) mm longae, 

 aciculares, basi longe ciliatae. Corolla coerulea, tubus basi gracilis, 

 superne abrupte compresso-inflatus et deflexus, labium superius equa- 

 liter 4-lobum; labium inferius compresso-naviculare, apice abrupte in- 

 flexum. 



Uganda: A. Whyte 1898; M. T. Da we 1905. 



62. Ancistrochilus Rothschildianus J. O'Brien in Gard. Chron., 3. ser., 

 XLI (1907), p. 51. fr. 24. 



Pseudobulbs on short rhizomes, varying from conical to pyriform and 

 orbicular, sometimes compressed on the upper part, forming obtuse 

 angles; the largest over 2 inches in diameter and covered with a thin 

 brownish membrane, 1—2 leaved; leaves ovate oblong, 2 inches wide, 

 6—8 inches long, distinctly ribbed beneath. Inflorescence minutely 

 pilose in all its parts and more distinctly on the ovaries. Peduncles 

 erect, 6—12 inches in height, and producing 2—4 flowers on the upper 

 half, their pedicels sheathed by ovate-acuminate bracts about half-an- 

 inch in length. Pedicels and ovaries 1 to l l / 2 inches long. Flowers 

 about 2 inches apart. Upper sepal ovate-acuminate 3 / 4 of an inch wide, 

 and about LV 2 inches long, arched forward, and slightly concave on the 

 inner side. I ower sepals scarcely so large, closely connivent, sometimes 

 overlapping; all the sepals rosepink. Petals narrower than the sepals, 

 horizontally extended, pale resepink; lip three-lobed, and bearing two 

 short and tour longer raised purple lines from the base, the middle ones 

 extending into the front lobe; side lobes broad and erect, green tinged 

 with sepia-brown; front lobe narrow and curved down in front, purple 

 with a jellow apex. Column arched, semi-terete at the base, widened 

 laterally on the upper half, green tinged with reddish purple. 



Nigeria. 



Its chief differences from A. Thonisonianus are as follow: its larger 

 growth, its somewhat fleshier and softer substance, which applies to 

 both flowers and leaves, the broader sepals, the two lower ones being 

 in every flower of the four spikes which the plant produced so markedly 



