Saccolabium. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDEE (ROLFE). 133 
tooth; spur roundly gibbous. Column stout, 1 lin. long.—Acampe 
mombasensis, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 386. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa Island, Taylor / 
Near the preceding, but the leaf is less linear, the flowers nearly twice as large, 
and the spur rounded, not conical. 
17. ANGRASCUM, Bory, Voy. i. 359, t. 19; Benth. et Hook. 
f. Gen. Pl. iii. 583, in part. 
Sepals and petals subequal, free, spreading or subconnivent. Lip 
attixed to the base of the column and continuous with it, produced at 
the base into a long, often very long spur ; side lobes small or obsolete, 
at the sides of the spur; limb spreading or erect, entire or trilobed. 
Column very short, broad, concave in front, without wings and footless ; 
clinandrium truncate, entire. Anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, 
convex, often produced in front, scarcely 2-celled ; pollinia 2, globose, 
sulcate; stipes single, clavate or slender; gland squamiform, simple. 
Capsule oblong or fusiform.—Epiphytic herbs; stems leafy or rarely 
leafless, long or short, not thickened into pseudobulbs. Leaves dis- 
tichous, coriaceous or fleshy, articulated to a persistent sheath. 
Peduncles lateral, simple. Flowers often large or medium-sized, race- 
mose or subsolitary. Bracts usually small.—adinocion, Ridl. in Bolet. 
Soc. Brot. v. 200. Calyptrochilum, Krinzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 30. 
A genus of 80 or 90 species, widely diffused in Continental Africa and the Mas- 
carene Islands, with an outlying species in Japan. The genus is bere limited to those 
with a single stipes to the pollinia, which is the only absolute character by which it 
can be separated from the allied genera, 
Stems leafy. 
“Stems very short ; leaves basal. 
Caudicles of pollinia 2-armed from the middle (un- 
known in 2), 
Racemes 6-10 in. long . e . . . 1. A. flabellifolium. 
Racemes 3 in. long : : ¢ : 2. A. brachycarpum. 
Caudicles of pollinia simple, wherever known. 
Leaves broader or not narrower at the apex than 
at the base (unknown in 21, see also 2 above). 
+Sepals and petals 4-12 lin. long. 
Petals ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, 
or narrow. 
Spur short, with broadly infundibular 
mouth i S S : . 3. A. Galeandre. 
Spur long and slender, 
Column more or less stout, not half as 
long as the sepals. 
Racemes 2—5 flowered, usually erect 
or suberect. 
Petals elliptic, subacute . . 4, A. alcicorne. 
Petals broadly lanceolate, acumi- 
nate. 5. A. Kirkii. 
Petals narrowly lanceolate, acumi- 
nate , S S e . 6. A. rohlfsianum 
