Angrecum. } CXXXIII. ORCHIDEZ (ROLFE). 141 
Like the Madagascar 4. citratum, Thou. I have not seen the Somaliland plant, 
and the distribution is remarkable. 
18. A. luteo-album, Kränzl. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. CO 158. Stems 
short. Leaves few, linear-oblong, acute. Pedicels elongate, few- 
flowered. Bracts minute, triangular. Sepals unguiculate-obovate. 
Flowers pale yellow. Petals shorter and broader than the sepals, 
obovate, rotundate. Lip like the petals but larger, rounded in front ; 
spur filiform, three times longer than the lip.—Kriinzl. in Engl. Jahrb. 
mat. 27, 
Nile Land. British East Africa: forest on the upper Ituri, Stuhlmann, 2650 ; 
west of Lendu, Stuhlmann, 2720. 
Near the Madagascar A. citratum, Thou., but the flowers are described as nearly 
twice as large, and the leaves linear and smaller, I have not seen it. 
19. A. Rohrii, Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 117. Stems very 
short, with numerous stout roots, 4—6-leaved. Leaves linear-oblong, 
obliquely and obscurely bidentate, obtuse, 34—4 in. long, 7-9 lin. broad. 
Racemes numerous, erect or spreading, somewhat flexuous, 5-6 in. 
long, many-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, apiculate, 14-2 lin. long. 
Pedicels 2 lin. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 2} lin. long. Petals linear- 
oblong, obtuse, 24 lin. long. Lip rhomboid, obtuse-angled, 2} lin. long ; 
Spur slender, with clavate apex, 4—6 lin. long. Column stout, ? lin. long; 
pollinia not seen. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Roth ! not Rohr, as given by Reichenbach, 
20. A. Quintasii, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. ix. 140. Plant dwarf. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, 14-3 in. long, 3-34 lin. broad. 
Racemes subpendulous, slender, 3-4} in. long, 8—-12-flowered. Bracts 
ovate, subobtuse, brown. Pedicels 24 lin. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 
I} bn long. Petals a little smaller than the sepals. Lip ovate, obtuse, 
1} lin, long ; spur subclavate, 3 lin. long; apex incurved. Column very 
short ; wings nearly obsolete; pollinia not seen. Capsule elliptic- 
oblong, 5 lin. long. 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas, 4000 ft., Quintas, 6! 
A very distinct species. The pollinia were absent from the flowers examined. 
21. A. malangeanum, Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 26. Stems, 
roots, and leaves not known. Racemes short, dense; rhachis very 
flexuous. Bracts ovate, acute, longer than the ovary. Flowers 
distichous, including the spur, 7 lin. long, 5 lin. broad. Dorsal sepal 
oblong, acute; lateral triangular-acuminate, subfaleate from an ovate 
base. Petals about as long as the sepals, straight. Lip pandurate; side 
lobes well developed, rounded; front lobe subquadrate, with rounded 
angles ; apex bilobed or sinuate with an apiculus in the angle; disc with 
5 slightly thickened lines ; spur narrowly funnel-shaped at the mouth, 
sharply bent and more or less twisted in the middle, then vesicate at 
