22 CXXXIII. ORCHIDEZ (ROLFE) | Liparis. 
8. L. capensis, Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. i. iv. 314% Pseudo- 
bulbs globose or ovoid, 5-9 lin. broad, 2—8-leaved. Leaves ovate, 
subobtuse or apiculate, with broad sheathing base, #-14 in. long. 
Scapes 3-4} in. high; racemes many-flowered. Bracts linear-lanceo- 
late, acute, 2-6 lin. long. Capsule oblong or elliptical-oblong, pedicelled, 
3-4 lin. long.— Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 218; Engl. Hochgeb. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. 187. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Mann, 2129! 
The specimens, which are in fruit only, have been identified with the South 
African L. capensis, Lindl., but the determination requires confirmation when flowers 
are available. 
9. L. Guingangee, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1867, 103. A small plant, 
3 in. high. Pseudobulbs minute, globose, 2-leaved. Leaves lanceolate, 
mucronate, spreading, + lin. long, 2 in. broad. Scape slender, angulate ; 
raceme few-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, 14 lin. 
long. Flowers small, whitish or pale yellow. Dorsal sepal linear, 4 lin. 
long; lateral ones ovate, slightly falcate, equalling the lip. Petals 
linear. Lip ovate, apiculate. Column slender, erect ; apex incurved.-— 
Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 274. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Morro de Monino, Welwitsch, 723! 
5. BULBOPHYLLUM, Thou.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 501. 
Dorsal sepal free, erect, or spreading; lateral ones oblique at the 
base and adnate to the foot of the column, forming a chin, erect or 
spreading, free or rarely connate, sometimes larger than the dorsal one. 
Petals mostly smaller and narrower than the sepals. Lip contracted at 
the base, and articulated to the foot of the column, mostly recurved, 
usually small and more or less fleshy, glabrous, ciliate, minutely toothed 
or barbate ; side lobes mostly small or obsolete. Column erect, mostly 
very short ` apex with two or rarely four variously shaped teeth; base 
produced into a longish foot. Anther terminal operculate, incumbent, 
usually somewhat.depressed, 2- or rarely 1-celled ; pollinia waxy, normally 
4, but usually more or less connate in pairs, unappendaged or rarely 
cohering by a viscid exudation. Capsule ovoid or oblong.—Herbs with 
more or less creeping rhizomes. Pseudobulbs sessile in the axil of a 
sheath, ovoid-oblong, 4-angled or subcompressed, rarely absent, 1 or 
2-leaved. Scapes arising from the base of the pseudobulbs, simple, 
their bases bearing numerous sheaths. Flowers in spikes, racemes or 
umbels, rarely solitary ; rhachis slender or thickened, but not flattened. 
Bracts often small, occasionally larger and imbricate.—Tribrachia, 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 832. Tawrostalix, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 
1852, 933. 
A genus of nearly 300 species, found almost throughout the tropics, but most 
numerous in India and Malaya. 
*Lip entire or nearly so. 
+Pseudobulbs normally 2-leaved; flowers spicate. 
Bracts under 2 lin. long. 
