262 CXXXIII, ORCHIDEZ (ROLFE). [Cynorchis. 
acute, oblique, 1 lin. long; middle lobe obovate-oblong, obtuse, 14 lin. 
long; spur slender, 24 lin. long. Column short, stout. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mountains East of Lake Nyasa, 
Johnson ! 
42. AMPHORCHIS, Thou. ; Blume in Mus. Lugd. Batav. ii. 190. 
Flowers inverted. Dorsal sepal inferior, more or less concave ; 
lateral oblique, broader and more spreading. Petals smaller than the 
lateral sepals, somewhat spreading. Lip superior, cuneate, broad and 
dilated above, entire or shortly trilobed at the apex; base produced 
into an elongated or slender spur. Column short and broad. Anther 
horizontal; cells nearly parallel; base somewhat produced, and more or 
less adnate to the side lobes of the rostellum ; pollinia granular, extended 
into slender caudicles, terminating in small, exserted, naked glands. 
Stigma shortly bilobed, forming a pair of rounded processes; rostellum 
trilobed ; front lobe triangular or oblong, more or less concave or cucul- 
late; side lobes elongated, forming channels for the caudicles of the 
pollinia.— Terrestrial herbs, with fasciculate, fleshy roots, sometimes 
thickened into tubers. Leaves radical, few or solitary, oblong or 
elongated. Flowers small, pedicellate, arranged in lax, short or some- 
what elongated racemes. Bracts small and narrow.—Ridl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxi. 517. 
A genus of four species, confined to the Mascarene Islands with the following 
exception. It is readily distinguished from Cynorchis by the inverted flowers. 
1. A. occidentalis, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 139. Plant 
1} ft. high, densely hispidulous-pubescent. Pseudobulb narrowly 
oblong, 14 in. long. Stem with 2, acuminate sheaths. Leaves basal, 
ovate, subacuminate, ciliolate, variegated, 14 in. long. Racemes 5 m. 
long, lax. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 3—4 lin. long. Pedicels 4-6 
lin. long. Flowers inverted, orange. Dorsal sepal ovate, obtuse or 
apiculate, 3 lin. long; lateral obliquely ovate-oblong, subacute, 3} lin. 
long. Petals very broadly quadrate-ovate, crenulate, 2 lin. long; apex 
shortly bidentate, with equal or unequal, obtuse teeth. Lip 5 lin. long, 
cuneate, shortly trilobed at the apex; lobes ovate-triangular, subacute 
or apiculate ; front lobe with a thickened median line from the base to 
the apex; spur cylindrical, curved, slightly dilated above, 8-9 lin. long. 
Anther channels short, scarcely 4 lin. long. Stigmatic processes large, 
rounded. Rostellum trilobed; front lobe triangular, obtuse, a little 
concave or cucullate ; side lobes a little longer than the anther channels 
and adnate to them at the base.—Cynosorchis occidentalis, Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 92. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Nupe; in a ravine near Jeba, only one 
specimen seen, Barter, 1487! 
A pretty species. Leaves marked like Anectochilus argenteus. 
43. SATYRIUM, Sw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 629. 
Sepals subequal or the lateral broader, spreading or reflexed. 
Petals more or less united to the sepals at the base, similar to OF 
