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Tab. 6858. 
LISSOCHILUS SANDERSONI. 
Native of Natal. 
Nat. Ord. OrcH1pEx.—Tribe VanDEX, 
Genus Lissocnitvs, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 536.) 
Lissocuitus Sandersoni; elatus, robustus, foliis 3—-4-pedalibus 3-4 poll. latis 
elongato-lanceolatis subacutis in petiolum elongatum angustatis, scapo cylin- 
draceo, spica pedali rachi robusto, bracteis magnis elliptico-oblongis concavis 
viridibus, floribus 2-24 poll. diam., sepalis viridibus brunneo-sphacelatis acutis 
late oblongis basi angustatis postico paullo majore, petalis amplis sepalis triplo 
majoribus late falcato-obiongis candidis apice rotundatis, labelli lobis lateralibus 
amplis erectis concavis sepalis concoloribus, intermedio quadrato integro 
ambitu purpureo striisque saturate purpureis lineato, disco flavido papillis 
ae 3-5-plici seriatis densis cristato, calcare labelli conico obtuso, columna 
albida. 
L. Sandersoni, Reichb. f. Otia Botan. Hamburgens. fase. I. p. 62, non Harvey 
mss. 
A stately species of what was till lately a small genus of 
Orchids, but which recent collections made in tropical 
Africa give promise of proving a very large one, with its 
headquarters in that country. It is, however, more 
probable that ail will merge into Hulophia, which, as 
Mr. N. E. Brown has shown me, cannot be satisfactorily 
distinguished from it. Of the previous figured kinds, 
LL. Sandersoni approaches nearest to L. Horsfallii, Batem., 
of Old Calabar, which, however, differs conspicuously in 
the narrower sepals, their dark maroon-purple colour, and 
that of the mid-lobe of the lip, as well as in the disk of the 
latter being covered with linear toothed wings. 
L. Sandersoni is a native of Natal, and was first made 
known by a drawing sent to Kew by the late Mr. Sanderson 
in 1867, from which Reichenbach’s specific description was 
drawn up, and a specimen has since been kindly communi- 
cated by Mrs. Sanderson. The drawing alluded to appears 
to have been made from a faded specimen, for though 
agreeing in all essentials with the plant here figured, the 
flowers are much smaller and colours faded. There is in 
the Kew Herbarium a very similar and probably identical 
FEB. Ist, 1886. 
