and the flowers show a range of colour from yellow to 
various shades of lilac and purple, sometimes intermixed 
with green. 
Lissochilus Ugande, Rolfe, is an interesting addition, 
which was sent to Kew, in 1902, by Mr. John Mahon, then 
Curator of the Botanic Gardens at Entebbe, Uganda, and 
flowered in a tropical house in April, 1905. 
Descr.—A. terrestrial, tuberous herb with Phaius-like 
habit. Leaves elongate, ligulate, subacute, plicate, two to 
three feet long by about an inch broad, glaucous green. 
Scape rather stout, three feet and a half high, with about 
four sheaths, from an inch to an inch and a half long, and 
tubular at the base; raceme compact, six to eight inches 
long, bearing about two dozen flowers. Bracts oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, about half an inch long, concave. 
Pedicels three-quarters to an inch long. Flowers about 
_ two inches long, yellow, suffused with purple-brown at the 
apex of the sepals, and lined with light brown on the side 
lobes of thelip. Sepals reflexed, spathulate-oblong, obtuse, 
concave, an inch or more long. Petals incurved over the 
lip, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than the sepals. 
Lip strongly three-lobed, an inch long; side lobes erect, 
oblong, obtuse and undulate at the apex; front lobe 
orbicular-oblong, obtuse, reflexed, and undulate at the 
sides; disk with three nearly parallel keels extending to 
the base, thicker, and crenulate in front; sac very broad 
and obtuse, about a quarter of an inch long. Column 
clavate, acute-angled, about half an inch long.—R. A. 
RourFe. 
Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, anther cap; 3 and 4, pollinarium, front and back 
view :—all enlarged. 
