148 CXXXIII. ORCHIDE® (ROLFE). [Angræcum. 
41. A. Whitfieldii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1895, 250. Stems 6 in. 
or more long, with stout roots. Leaves (not seen); sheaths plicate, 
5 lin. long. Racemes axillary, 14—12 in. long, slender, dense-flowered. 
Bracts shortly ovate, amplexicaul, 4 lin. long. Flowers rather crowded. 
Pedicels 14-14 lin. long. Sepals 1 lin. long; lateral asymmetric, pro- 
duced anteriorly at the base. Petals 1 lin. long. Lip trilobed, from 
a quadrate base, without basal auricles, 1 lin. long; side lobes linear- 
filiform, 1 lin. long ; front lobe triangular; spur 4 lin. long. Column 
4 lin. long, with 2 anterior wings. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Whitfield ! 
Near A. armeniacum, Lindl., but differs in its smaller flowers, lip without basal 
auricles, and the anteriorly produced base of the lateral sepals. 
42. A. fimbriatum, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 387, t. 32, 
figs. 11-18. Stems elongate, stout, over 1 foot long; roots stout. 
Leaves linear, recurved, 4-6 in. long, 34—4 lin. broad, persistent ; apex 
shortly and unequally bilobed ; sheaths 7-8 lin. long. Spikes lateral, 
numerous, many-flowered, 34-5 in. long. Bracts truncate, amplexicaul, 
2 lin. long. Pedicels 2 lin. long. Dorsal sepal oval-lanceolate, cuspi- 
date, 5-nerved, 24-3 lin. long ; lateral ovate-cordate, trinerved, broader 
than the dorsal, united at the base; apex thick, cuspidate. Petals 
linear, narrowed upwards, acute, 3-nerved, 24-3 lin. long. Lip trilobed, 
2} lin. long, with a pair of small basal auricles; side lobes linear, 
spreading, irregularly fimbriate at the apex, 2 lin. long; front lobe 
triangular, cuspidate, thick, 3-nerved, 1 lin. long; spur slender, 7 lin. 
long, base conical. Column short, broadly auricled above, 4 lin. long; 
beak of rostellum projecting downwards. Capsules oblong, shortly 
pedicelled, 7-8 lin. long. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Giryama and Shimba Hills, near Mombasa, 
Taylor. 
E EE Dist. German East Africa: Usagara mountains, at Mamboio, 2000 ft. 
rke: 
Near the South African A. bicaudatum, Lindl., but differing in its proportionately 
larger lip. 
43. A. guyonianum, Reichb. f. in Linnea, xxii. 865. Stems 
very short, leafless, with dense masses of roots, 6-12 in. long. Racemes 
numerous, slender, 2-4 in. long. Bracts amplexicaul, obtuse or sub- 
acute, $ lin. long. Pedicels 14 lin. long. Sepals oblong, subacute, 1} lin. 
long. Petals slightly smaller than the sepals. Lip oblong, obtuse 
or apiculate, 1} lin. long ; spur curved, 1-14 lin. long, narrowly conical 
at the base; slender above. Column stout, minute; pollinia with 
a single slender stipes. Capsule elliptic-oblong, 3-4 lin. long.— 
Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. iii. 572; Martelli, Florul. Bogos, 81; Rolfe in 
Kew Bulletin, 1895, 37 (in note). Aéranthus guyonianus, Reichb. f. 
in Flora, 1865, 190; Reichb. f. in Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 78. Angraecum 
globulosum, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 285. Gussoni 
globulosa, Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 491 (in note). Mystacidium 
globulosum, Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 53. Saccolabium 
