Brachycorythis. | CXXXIII. ORCHIDE# (ROLFE). 201 
Leaves about 40, lower 2 in. long . . 3. B. Schweinfurthii. 
Leaves about 20, lower 34 in. long . 4. B. Welwitschii. 
Lip bilobed . . . 5. B. pleistophylla, 
Lip about 2% lin. long . 6. B. parviflora, 
Plant under 6 in. high, 
Lip 4-5 lin. long S , B. Pumilio, 
Lip 7-8 lin. long . ; S : : : . 8 B. Lastii. 
1. B. Kalbreyeri, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1878, 77. Plant 9-16 in. 
or more high, with stout, woolly roots. Stem straight or flexuous, 
densely or distantly leafy, sheathed below. Leaves about 12, ligulate, 
acuminate, 14-3 in. long, 4-6 lin. broad, slenderly 13-nerved. Racemes 
few- to many-flowered ; rhachis minutely puberulous. Bracts leafy, 
longer than the velvety ovaries, oblong-ligulate, acute, 11—13-nerved. 
Flowers fragrant, violet-purple. Sepals 2 in. long; dorsal elliptical, 
subacute ; lateral oblong-triangular, subacute. Petals elliptical, obtuse- 
angled, rhomboid, apiculate, broader than the sepals. Lip 1 in. long, 
angled at the base; limb elliptic-obovate, trifid in front; side lobes 
broadly triangular or rotundate, obtuse, oblique ; front lobe minutely 
triangular ; spur obscurely saccate, minute.—Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. 
1, 59. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Victoria and Mapanja, 4500-6300 ft., on lava, 
Kalbreyer 7 
2. B. pubescens, Harv. Thes. Cap.i. 35, t. 54. Plant 1-2 ft. bigh, 
velvety all over, densely leafy. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, or acuminate, }-14 in. long, decreasing into sheaths below and 
bracts above. Racemes 3-8 in. long, dense-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, 
acuminate, 4—1 in. long. Flowers white and flesh-coloured. Dorsal 
sepal elliptic-oblong, obtuse, concave, 3 lin. long; lateral obliquely 
Semiovate-oblong, obtuse, 34 lin. long. Petals obliquely semiovate- 
oblong, 2} lin. long. Lip 34-4 lin. long, with a pair of rounded 
auricles at the gibbous or subsaccate base, constricted and bent above 
the base, cuneately dilated and trilobed above; side lobes rounded, 
obtuse; front lobe shorter than the side, broadly triangular; disc 
obtusely carinate, and with a pair of rounded calli between the 
auricles. Column 14 lin. long.—Ridl. in Journ, Bot. 1895, 295. Peri- 
stylus hispidulus and var. minor, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 398. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: North-east of Kariandusi, near the south end 
of Lake Elmenteita, 7000 ft., in woods, Gregory ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Adongo; Barrancos de Catete, in wet 
thickets, very rare, Welwitsch, 693 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, near 
Blantyre, Last ! Mlange, Scott-Elliot, 8687! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 
512! 572! 
Also found in the Transvaal and Natal. 
3. B. Schweinfurthii, Réichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. i. 59. Plant 
tall, 23-22 ft. high. Leaves about 40, cuneate-ligulate, acute, 5-nerved, 
lower 3-31 in. long, 7-8 lin. broad; nerves prominent below. 
Inflorescence 6 in. long, dense-flowered ` apex comose. Bracts linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, most of them as long as the flowers, 
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