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ovate or pandurate. Column short, flat or concave in front; 
clinandrium short. Anther erect, ovate, slightly convex, 2-celled ; 
pollinia powdery or granular, free or affixed to a small gland. 
Stigma broad and prominent; rostellum broad. Capsule oblong, 
spreading or pendulous.—Terrestrial herbs, with creeping rhizomes, 
and simple, erect, leafy stems. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, plicate- 
veined. Flowers medium-sized, green or purplish, shortly pedicelled, 
drooping, arranged in a secund raceme. Bracts herbaceous, narrow ; 
lower often longer than the flowers. 
A genus of about 12 species, widely dispersed through the temperate and mountain 
regions of the northern hemisphere, with the two following African representatives. 
Sepals acuminate; hypochile with a pair of linear-oblong 
staminodes at the base . è : : è . 1. E. africana. 
Sepals subotuse; hypochile without staminodes . . 2. E. somaliensis. 
1, E. africana, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1895, 252. Plant 14-2 ft. 
high, ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, sub- 
obtuse, amplexicaul, recurved, very strongly nerved; lower ones 3 in. 
long, 1} in. broad, decreasing upwards into the bracts. Racemes more 
or less elongate. Bracts leaf-like; the lower 1} in. long. Pedicels 
3-1} lin. long. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, acute, 6-7 lin. long; lateral 
with a broadly ovate, oblique base, 3 lin. long, and a narrowly falcate- 
acuminate apex, 5-6 lin. long. Petals ovate, acuminate, subfalcate, 
6-7 lin. long. Lip 8 lin. long; hypochile narrowly oblong, concave, 
4 lin. long ; epichile broadly ovate, acute, 44 lin. long; base of the lip 
with a pair of free, linear-oblong, subobtuse, membranous, nerved, 
staminodes, 34 lin. long. Column 24 lin. long. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ruwenzori, Butagu, 8000-10,000 ft., among 
heather, Scott-Elliot, 8005! 
The staminodial appendages at the base of the lip are anomalous in the genus. 
2. E. somaliensis, Rolfe. Plant 1-2 ft. high, fuscous-pubescent. 
Leaves lanceolate or subovate-lanceolate, attenuate, sessile, suberect, 
the largest 6 in. long, ł in. broad, decreasing into sheaths below and 
bracts above. Racemes 5-12 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts leaf-like, 
the lowest over 2 in. long, the upper } in. long. Pedicels 4-} in. 
long. Flowers greenish-brown. Dorsal sepal ovate, subobtuse, 5-6 lin. 
long ; lateral obliquely semiovate, 6-7 lin. long, 3 lin. broad. Petals 
ovate, subobtuse, 5—6 lin. long. Lip 6 lin. long; hypochile narrowly 
obovate-oblong, concave,‘ 24 lin. long; epichile pandurate-ovate, sub- 
obtuse or apiculate, 4 lin. long, broad at the base, much narrower 
above. Column 2 lin. long. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Golis Range, at Woob, in the river bed, Mis. Lort 
Phillips! Miss E. Cole ! : 
Allied to the preceding, but very different in the shape of the leaves, sepals and 
Petals, and the details of the lip. 
30. STENOGLOTTIS, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 622. 
Sepals free, subequal, ultimately spreading. Petals somewhat 
narrower than the sepals, and suberect. Lip continuous with the base 
