Eulophia. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDEE (ROLFE). 61 
long. Pedicels 5-6 lin. long. Sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, 7-8 lin. long. Lip 7-8 lin. long, trilobed ; side lobes broadly 
semiovate, obtuse; front lobe suborbicular or broadly obovate; dise 
with nerves scarcely thicker at the base, barbate in front with long 
hairs ; spur linear, subconical, obtuse, 2—24 lin. long. Column clavate, 
3 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. Northern Bechuanaland: Leshumo Valley, Holub ! Near the 
Zambesi River, N.W. of Shesheke, Holub ! 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Amboland; Oshike, Schinz ! 
37. E. hereroensis, Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss.iv. 417. Stem 
erect, glabrous, 16-20 in. high. Leaves few, fascicled, suberect, 
produced after flowering, linear, acute, rather rigid, nerved. Scapes 
lateral, rather strong, laxly sheathed; sheaths few, submembranous, 
short, appressed to the scape; spike loosely many-flowered. Bracts 
membranous, suberect, minute, lanceolate, acute, much shorter than 
the ovary. Flowers erect, spreading. Sepals narrowly oblong, sub- 
acute, 8-9 lin. long; lateral 24 lin. broad; dorsal a little narrower 
than the lateral. Petals oblique, lanceolate-oblong, subacute, 6—7 lin. 
long, 24 lin. broad. Lip as long as the sepals, lanceolate, slightly 
trilobed above; side lobes very short, subtriangular, acute; front 
lobe much larger than the side ones, ovate-oblong, obtuse, with inflexed 
margin; disc with two parallel keels and some thickened nerves; 
spur thick, obtuse, subincurved, 24 lin. long, mouth very broad. 
Column about half as long as the lip; stipes oblong-ligulate, short ; 
glands elliptical, semilunate, with a very acute apex. 
Lower Guinea. German South-West Africa: Hereroland; near Harris, among 
shrubs, Fleck, 412. 
Only known to me from the original description. 
38. E. Welwitschii, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. vii. 236. Plant 
1-1} ft. high. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 6-8 in. long, 
immature at flowering time. Scapes 1-14 ft. long, with a few lanceolate 
sheaths; racemes 2-3 in. long, about 7—9-flowered. Bracts lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4—9 lin. long, Pedicels 5-6 lin. long. 
Sepals and petals oblanceolate, acute or subacuminate, 10-12 lin. long. 
Lip subentire, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, 10-11 lin. long; disc with three 
obtuse keels at the base; nerves more or less villose above; spur 
oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long. Column stout, 24 lin. long.—Orthochilus 
Welwitschii, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1865, 186. 
_ Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; at Monino, in sandy places among Proteacew, 
Welwitsch, 720! Huilla, Antunes, 22! 
39. E. renschiana, Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. e 25, 
Leaves rigid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape tall; raceme lax. 
Sepals and petals not described. Lip broadly oblong, obtuse or emar- 
ginate, with a pair of obtuse-angled lobes near the base ; dise with a 
pair of keels at the base, barbate with crinite, very slenderly filiform, 
