570 ADDENDA, 
the ovary. Flowers pale yellow outside, deep yellow inside near the 
apex, and the petals veined with violet. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 1 in. 
long. Petals oblong, acute, 10 lin. long. Lip 10 lin. long; side lobes 
semioblong or obtriangular, with the outer angle rounded ; front lobe 
oblong, retuse, with the front margin minutely crisped; dise wholly 
covered with elevated denticulate veins, somewhat radiating towards. 
the margin, and nearly as high as the central keels which extend from 
base to apex; spur subulate, straight, 1 lin. long. Column acute, half 
as long as the lip. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; on the Handei Mountains 
at Nderema, 2700 ft., Heinsen, 10. 
Au anomalous species, only known to me from the original description, but said to 
recall Limodorum or Galeola rather than Eulophia, 
10a. Mystacidium angustum, Rolfe. Stem short or somewhat 
climbing. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, unequally and 
acutely bidentate, 13-3 in. long, 5-6 in. broad. Raceme slender, 
2-3 in. long, 2-3-flowered. Bracts tubulose-spathaceous, acute, 
keeled, 1 lin. long. Pedicels slender, 9-11 lin. long. Flowers 
white, slightly tinged with brown on the sepals and petals. Sepals 
spreading, linear, attenuate, curved, 10—11 lin. long. Petals reflexed, 
narrower than the sepals. Lip 6 lin. long, oblong and obtusely keeled 
at the base, suddenly expanded at the middle into a cordate limb, 
with a long acuminate reflexed apex; spur 9-10 lin. long, narrowly 
funnel-shaped and subcompressed at the base, slender in the middle, 
and subclavate at the apex. Column very short ; stipes of the pollinia 
and glands both distinct. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar ; Cross River, at Itu, Holland ! 
Remarkable for its long, narrow sepals and petals, and the cordate limb of the 
lip. It is in cultivation at Kew, 
6a. Brachycorythis Buchananii, Rolfe. Plant slender, erect, 
glabrous. Stem straight or slightly flexuous, many-leaved, clothed with 
loose sheaths at the base. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, 
setaceous-acuminate, the lower 11-2 in. long, 5 lin. broad, decreasing 
upwards into the bracts. Spikes: cylindrical, rather dense, 14-3} in. 
long, 7 lin. broad, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, very acute Or 
acuminate, the lower exceeding the flowers, the upper smaller. Sepals 
ovate, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; lateral erecto-patent and 
oblique at the base; dorsal erect. Petals suberect, obliquely and 
broadly ovate, subobtuse, about as long as the sepals and 14 lin. broad. 
Lip with concave, broadly oblong base, 1 lin. long, and a dilated, three- 
lobed limb of the same length, and 14 lin. broad; side lobes subfalcate- 
oblong, obtuse; front lobe smaller, triangular, acute; disec with a 
transverse triangular obtuse lamina at the base of the limb. Antber 
oblong, obtuse.—Platanthera Buchananii, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxiv. 420. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan. 
Only known to me from the original description. 
