200 CXXXIII. ORCHIDEH (ROLFE). [Peristylus. 
obtuse ; front lobe with a fleshy disc; spur saccate, ł}—4 lin. long. 
Column very broad, + lin. long, cells slightly diverging with very short 
caudicles. Stigmas very short, nearly confluent. Rostellum broadly 
tooth-like, obtuse.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 288. Platanthera 
lefeburiana, Engl. Hochgeb. Fl. Trop. Afr. 179. Habenaria lefeburiana, 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 80. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre; Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Quartin-Dillon 
(ex Richard). Wodjerat Distr., Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 227! Semen; near Endjed- 
cap, among stones and grass, Schimper, 1254! Begemeder ; Mount Guna, 10,000 ft., 
Schimper, 1325! without locality, Schimper, 613! 
6. P. Steudneri, Rolfe. Plant stout, over 1 ft. high, sheaths 
spotted with black. Leaves as many as 8, oblong, acute, short, 
distant, decreasing upwards into the bracts. Racemes cylindrical, 
compact, with small flowers. Bracts triangular, as long as the flowers. 
Sepals ligulate-triangular. Petals lanceolate. Lip dilated above the 
cuneate base, trifid above; side lobes triangular; front lobe with a 
longitudinal keel; spur subglobose, obscurely bilobed at the apex.— 
Herminium Steudnerit, Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 109. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Semen; Ghuba Valley, Steudner, 706. 
Only known to me from the original description. 
34. BRACHYCORYTHIS, Lindl.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. 632, ; : 
Sepals free, connivent or ultimately spreading; lateral oblique, 
often broader than the dorsal. Petals similar to the lateral sepals 
or a little narrower. Lip continuous with the base of the column, 
spreading, free; claw broad, somewhat fleshy; base sulcate or con- 
cave but not calcarate; apex contracted ; limb dilated, tridentate or 
trilobed. Column short; clinandrium erect. Anther erect or some- 
what reclinate, broad ; cells parallel; apex inferior, adnate to the short 
side lobes of the rostellum ; pollinia granular ; caudicles short; glands 
large, contiguous ` staminodes lateral, small, rounded or auriculate. 
Stigma pulvinate, fleshy or concave, often large; rostellum short, 
trilobed ; middle lobe erect between the anther cells, somewhat plicate ; 
side lobes short, suberect. Capsule narrowly oblong.—Terrestrial, 
leafy herbs, with undivided, elongate tubers. Leaves sessile, generally 
numerous and imbricate, gradually decreasing upwards into the bracts. 
Spikes or racemes dense or many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, often rather large. 
A genus of about 10 species, limited to Continental Africa, chiefly differing from 
Platanthera in the absence of a spur to the lip. Bentham refers it to Disee, where 
it is clearly out of place, 
Plant over 1 ft. high, 
Lip about 1 in. long b x š 5 . 1. B. Kalbreyeri. 
Lip about 3 3 in. long. 
Plant densely velvety . S S S . 2. B. pubescens. 
Plant puberulous or nearly glabrous, 
Lip trilobed. 
