Lissochilus. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDEH (ROLFE). 81 
in front of the spur; spur short, conical, apiculate. Column clavate ; 
anther minutely apiculate.—Reichb. f. in Flora, 1885, 379. 
Wile Land. British East Africa; Mombasa, among grass, Hildelrandt, 1951, 
Also found in the Comoro Islands. I have not seen the Mombasa plant. 
25. L. livingstonianus, Reichd. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 114, 
Rhizome stout. Scapes 14-24 ft. high, with a few sheaths below; 
racemes 4-10 in, long, lax. Bracts linear-lanceolate or subulate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 3-9 lin. long. Pedicels 3-1 in. long. Flowers 
purple, or the sepals and petals white, veined with purple. Sepals 
oblong, apiculate, 6-8 lin. long. Petals elliptical, obtuse or minutely 
apiculate, 5-7 lin. long. Lip pandurate-oblong, obtuse, undulate, 
convex, with reflexed sides, 5-7 lin. long; basal auricles broadly 
rounded or obtuse ; disc with 2 prominent lamellz in front of the spur, 
and 5-9 more or less prominent, sometimes crenulate, keels or slightly 
thickened nerves in the middle. Spur narrowly conical, 24-3 lin. long. 
Column clavate, 4—5 lin. long. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Uganda, common in grassy jungles, Wilson, 
40! Nyika country, near Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Manganja Hills, Waller! Meller 
(Lissochilus 4)! Mlanje Mountain, MeClounie! Whyte ! Shire Highlands, in woods 
between Blantyre and Metope, Scott ! 
26. L. affinis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1895, 193. Scapes 14-21 ft. 
high, with 3 short sheaths below; racemes about 6-flowered. Bracts 
lanceolate-subulate, acute, 3-4 lin. long. Pedicels 9-11 lin. long. 
Sepals elliptic-oblong, apiculate, 8-9 lin. long. Petals broadly ellip- 
tical, obtuse or minutely apiculate, 8-9 lin. long. Lip subentire, ellip- 
tic-oblong, obtuse, undulate, convex, with reflexed sides, cordate- 
auriculate at the base, 8-10 lin. long ; dise with 3 obtuse, fleshy keels 
about the middle, and the nerves in front somewhat swollen; spur 
conical, subobtuse, 3-3} lin. long. Column clavate, 4 lin. long. 
a Dist. German East Africa; Urundi, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 
8173! 
27. L. cornigeras, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1895, 194. Scapes 
1}-2 ft. high, with a few short sheaths below ` racemes about 5 in. 
long, 8-10-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 6—9 lin. long. 
Pedicels 9—10 lin. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, apiculate or aristate, 
8-9 lin, long. Petals elliptic-oblong, apiculate, 8-9 lin. long. Lip 
broadly pandurate-oblong, obtuse, 8-9 lin. long; side lobes auricu- 
late, broadly rounded; dise with 2 obtuse, very prominent, fleshy 
keels, gibbous in front of the spur, much smaller above; nerves of the 
disc very slightly thickened ; spur horn-shaped, recurved, 3-34 lin. long. 
Column clavate, 4 lin. long. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: East side of Albert Edward Nyanza, at 
Kahimbe, in dry grassy plains, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8031! 
Var, minor, Rendle, Le, 194. Plant smaller, Flowers smaller and of a deeper 
colour, 
Wile Land, British East Africa; Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 7486! 
Hardly distinguishable from the type. 
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