100 CXXXIII. ORCHIDEÆ (ROLFE). | Pteroglossaspis. 
of the base; front lobe larger, cuneate, retuse or emarginate; disc 
with three to five elevated tuberculate lines extending nearly to the 
apex. Column short, dilated and angled above. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 4500-4700 ft., 
among grass, Volkens, 266, 424. 
Only known to me from the original description. 
3. P. ruwenzoriensis, Kolfe. Leaves linear or lanceolate-linear, 
acuminate, 8-10 in. long, 4—6 lin. broad. Scapes 14-2 ft. high, with 
many lanceolate, imbricate sheaths. Bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, 8-9 lin. long. Pedicels 4-5 lin. long. Sepals and 
petals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 4-5 lin. long; base subcuneate. Lip 
trilobed, 4-44 lin. long; side lobes roundish-oblong; front lobe sub- 
orbicular-oblong, as large as the side lobes; disc slightly verrucose, 
with a pair of erect calli in the basal angle. Column stout, 14 lin. 
long.—Lulophia ruwenzoriensis, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1895, 166. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ruwenzori, eastern side, 6000—7000 ft., on 
sunny hillsides, Scott-Elliot, 7813! 7859 ! 5300 ft., on granite, Scott-Elliot, 7551 ! 
A broad leaf mounted with the British Museum specimen, and described in the 
original description, apparently belongs to some quite different plant. 
4, P. Carsoni, Rolfe. Leaves lanceolate-linear, acute, 6-8 lin. 
long, 4 lin. broad. Scapes 14-14 ft. long, with four or five long, 
imbricate sheaths. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, {—1 in. long. 
Pedicels 4—5 lin. long. Sepals and petals oblong, subobtuse or apiculate, 
4} lin. long. Lip trilobed, 4 lin. long ; side lobes oblong, obtuse; front 
lobe obovate, obtuse, twice as broad as the side lobes; disc slightly 
verrucose, with a pair of erect calli in the basal angle. Column stout, 
14 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Lake Tanganyika, Carson ! Fwambo, 
5250 ft., Nutt ! 
13. ANSELLIA, Lindl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 537. 
Sepals and petals subequal, free, spreading. Lip articulate to the 
foot of the column, 3-lobed; side lobes erect, parallel; middle lobe 
oblong or rounded; disc 2-3-keeled or lamellate. Column erect, 
equalling the side lobes of the lip, slightly curved, semiterete, with 
acute margins; base produced into a very short, broad, concave or 
slightly 2-lobed foot ` clinandrium entire, scarcely prominent. Anther 
terminal, operculate, incumbent, convex or crowned with an obtuse 
conical appendage, imperfectly 2-celled; pollinia 2 or 4, confluent in 
pairs, waxy, ovate, rounded, attached to a short broad stipes and 
gland. Capsule oblong, without beak.—Epiphytic herbs. Stems tall, 
thickened or somewhat fusiform, leafy. Leaves distichous, long, 
plicate-veined. Peduncles terminal, branched. Flowers in lax panicles, 
rarely in racemes, pedicellate. Bracts small. 
A genus of six species limited to Continental Africa, and only the South-eastern 
A, gigantea, Reichb. f., occurring outside the tropics. 
Petals elliptic-oblong, distinctly broader than the sepals . 1. 4. africana. 
Petals oblong, not, or scarcely, broader than the sepals. 
