Tas. 7546. 
LISSOCHILUS MILANJIANUS. 
Native of Central Africa. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHipExZ.—Tribe VaNnDEz. 
Genus Lissocuitus, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 536.) 
Lissocutzvus malanjianus; pseudobulbis catenatim dispositis amorphis 
ovoideis oblongisve, foliis hysteranthiis linearibus elongatis acuminatis 
3-nerviis coriaceis’ supra canaliculatis, racemo multifloro, scapo rachique 
robustis viridibus, bracteis lanceolatis ovarium sub-zquantibus, floribus 
1}-poll. expans., sepalis subequalibus oblongis apiculatis intus rubris, 
lateralibus basi labelli insertis, petalis amplis orbiculatis cuspidatis 
nervosis extus aureis intus sanguineis, labelli sessilis lobis lateralibus 
parvis rotundatis extus pallidis intus sanguineis, terminale ovato infra 
medium 5-cristato cristis aureis, dein ad apicem sanguineo, calcare late 
- infundibulari obtuso. 
L. milanjianus, Rendle in Trans, Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, vol. iv. (1894) p. 46. 
Eulophia bella, W.-H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. ii. p. 210. 
Lissochilus milanjianus was discovered in 1861, by the 
late C. J. Meller, Esq., F.L.S., when accompanying Dr. 
Livingstone in his second expedition to the Zambesi ; the 
habitat given is Manganja Hills, which I take to be a 
range on the Western side of Lake Nyassa, in about lat. 
12° S. It was next found (in 1890) in Uganda, under the 
line, in British Central Africa, by the late Mr. Buchanan, 
C.M.G., who sent plants to the Royal Gardens, Kew, that 
flowered in September, 1892. More recently it has been 
found by Mr. Whyte in the Milanji Hills, not far from 
Blantyre, south of Lake Shirwa, in lat. 16°S.; and much 
further south, near Umtala, in Mashona Land, lat. 18° S., 
long. 323° East, by a hospital nurse, who gave the tubers 
from which the flowering specimen here figured was 
raised, to P. F. Garnet, Esq., of South Bank, Grassen- 
dale, Liverpool. The plant has been twice independently 
described in 1889, by Mr. N. E, Brown as a Hulophia, and 
in 1894 by Mr. Rendle under the name here adopted. Mr, 
Garnett’s plant flowered in March, 1896; Mr. Buchanan’s, 
as above stated, in September, 1892. The tubers and 
leaves here represented are those of Mr, Buchanan’s plant, 
Jury 1st, 1897, 
