Lissochilus. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDEZ (ROLFE). 95 
reflexed sides; disc with 9-11 granulate keels; spur slenderly conical, 
a little shorter than the front lobe of the lip. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Mechow, 264. 
Only known to me from the original description, 
71. L. orthoplectrus, Reichb. f. in Otia Bot. Hamb.i. 63. Scapes 
elongate, 2 ft. high, with a few distant sheaths; racemes lax, many- 
flowered. Bracts triangular, setaceous, 5 lin. long, much exceeded by 
the pedicellate ovary. Flowers brown, striped with purple. Sepals 
oblong-triangular, apiculate, scarcely 5 lin. long. Petals elliptical, 
acute, 6-7 lin. long. Lip trilobed; side lobes semiovate; front lobe 
ligulate, subacute; disc with 5 thick crenulate lamelle; spur conical, 
Straight. 
Nile Land. Niamniam ; north of the Uzze River, Schweinfurth, 3270. 
Only known to me from the original description. 
72. L. Wakefieldii, Reichb. f. £ S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1878, 136. 
Rhizome stout. Leaves elongate-linear, acute or acuminate, 6-9 in, or 
more long. Scapes 2}—4 ft. long, with several sheaths below; racemes 
6-11 in. long, laxly many-flowered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
3-7 lin. long. Pedicels 7-10 lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, apiculate 
or shortly acuminate, 3-5 lin. long, green. Petals broadly ovate, apicu- 
late, 9-10 lin. long, bright yellow. Lip pandurate-oblong, obtuse, 
9-10 lin. long; basal auricles rounded, adnate to the base of the 
column ; front lobe convex; disce with 3-7 bright yellow keels, stout 
and crenulate below, narrower and entire above; spur conical, 14-3 lin. 
long. Column stout, 24-5 lin. long; foot very short.—Reichb. f. Otia 
Bot. Hamb. ii. 76 ; Hulophia dispersa, N. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 
EH 127; Lissochilus dispersus, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1893, xiii. 
84, 
‘ Wile Land. British East Africa : Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1044 and 1044c of 
1876 and 1877 collections, 19518 (ex Reichenbach); Teita Dist., Buityuma, Hilde- 
brandt (ex Reichenbach); Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor ! Nyika country, near 
Mombasa, found in many districts, Wakefield ! Rabai Hills at Jomvu, Wakefield ! 
Ribe, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk! British Central Africa: Mlanje, Whyte! 
Lake Nyasa, Livingstonia, cultivated specimens! Portuguese East Africa: Lower 
Zambesi, Shupanga, on grassy plains, Kirk! near Morambala, Kirk! Bechuanaland : 
‘banks of the Zuga River, near Lake Ngami, McCabe ! 
The above all appear to be forms of one variable species. 
73. L. brevisepalus, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1895, 195. Scapes 
2-24 ft. high, with a few short sheaths below; racemes about 6 in. long, 
laxly many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, acute, 24-3 lin. long. Pedicels 
7-8 lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, or apiculate, 3 lin. long. 
Petals suborbicular, 6-7 lin. long. Lip pandurate, 6-7 lin. long; side 
lobes auriculate or rounded-oblong, somewhat adnate to the foot of the 
column ` front lobe broadly elliptical or suborbicular-elliptical, apiculate, 
