Lissochilus. | CS, ORCHIDEE (ROLFE). 91 
with reflexed sides; dise with 3 fleshy keels; spur conical-oblong, obtuse, 
slightly curved, 3 lin. long. Column stout, 3—4 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usagara; Robeho Mountains, near 
water, 4700 ft., Grant ! 
57. L. Erythrzez, folfe. Rhizome stout; pseudobulbs oblong, 
clothed with loose membranous leaf-sheaths, 3-4 in. long. Leaves 
lanceolate or elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3—14 ft. long, 3-1} in. 
broad. Scapes 3 ft. long, stout, with a few sheaths below; racemes 
l ft. long, many-flowered. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4-8 lin. 
long. Pedicels 7-9 lin long. Sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 6-7 lin. 
long, dusky grey-green. Petals ovate-orbicular, obtuse, 7—8 lin. long, 
bright yellow. Lip pandurate-oblong, 7-8 lin. long, yellow, striped 
with purple near the base; side lobes auriculate, rounded; front lobe 
broadly elliptical, obtuse; dise with 3 crenulate keels; spur conical, 
obtuse, 2 lin. long. Column stout, 24-3 lin. long.—Lissochilus grani- 
ticus, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 89, 112 (not Reichb. f.). 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Kohaito Plateau, 8500-9000 ft., Schweinfurth, 168 t 
Ginda Valley, near Filogobai, 4600 ft., Schweinfurth, 517! Saganeiti, 7200-7500 ft., 
Schweinfurth, 1833! Acrur, 7100 ft., Schweinfurth, 2205 ! 
58. L. Krebsii, Reich. f. in Linnea, xx. 685. Rhizome stout. 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 1-14 ft. long, 14-2 in. broad, attenuate 
at the base into a petiole. Scapes 2-4 ft. high, stout, with several 
sheaths below; racemes 9-12 in. long, laxly many-flowered. Bracts 
ovate, acute, 7—9 lin. long. Sepals elliptic-oblong, subacute, 6-7 lin. 
long, brown. Petals suborbicular, 6-7 lin. long, yellow. Lip trilobed, 
6-7 lin. long; side lobes divaricate, broadly oblong, obtuse, red-purple, 
slightly faleate; front lobe broadly elliptical, obtuse, deflexed at the 
Sides, yellow ; disc with a thickened, but very obscurely verrucose keel ; 
Spur oblong, slightly curved, 2 lin. long. Column clavate, stout, 3 lin. 
long.—Adlam in Gard. Chron. 1886, xxvi. 58. ZL. Krebsit var. pur- 
purata, Ridl. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 102; Will. Orch. Alb. vi. t. 
259, Eulophia Krebsii, Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 185. Lissochilus 
Graefei, Kränz), in Gard. Chron. 1892, xi. 749; Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. 
ii. 125, b. 272. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Mount Mlanje, 7000 ft., MeClounie ! 
Portuguese East Africa: Morambala Mountains, Waller ! 
Also in South Africa, 
59. L. Rueppelii, Deich, f. in Linnea, xx. 686 (in note) ; xxii. 865. 
Rhizome creeping, stout, with pseudobulbous, oblong stem, 34 in. long. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, $—-1} ft. long, 14-2 in. 
broad. Scapes 1-1} ft. long, with several short sheaths below ; racemes 
6-8 in. long, loosely many-flowered. Bracts oblong or ovate-oblong, 
obtuse or apiculate. Pedicels 5-7 lin. long. Sepals elliptic-oblong or 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, 5-7 lin. long. Petals ovate-orbicular, obtuse or 
apiculate, 6-7 lin. long. Lip trilobed, 5-7 lin. long; side lobes sub- 
orbicular-oblong, obtuse; front lobe suborbicular, obtuse; dise with 3 
