44. THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
EULOPHIA MILANJIANA, Rendle, sp. n.  Caule valido, striato, foliis longis, lanceolatis, 
basi cireumdato ; bracteis sterilibus membranaceis, pallide brunneis, margine longe 
connatis, internodia infera omnino, supera autem partim, vaginantibus; racemo 
dense corymboso, bipollicari, bracteis florentibus longis subulatis, pallide brunneis, 
venis fuscis striatis, ovarium pedicellatum excedentibus; sepalis petalis consimilibus, 
sed majoribus, ovatis acutis, apice subfaleatis; labello trilobo, lobo medio quam 
lobi laterales, oblongi, ascendentes, integri, glabri, plus triplo majore, obovato- 
orbiculari; disco tomentoso, basi verrucis geminis suffulto ; caleare brevi obtuso; 
columna brevi crassa, alis tenuibus. 
The peduncle springs from among long, lanceolate, longitudinally-ribbed radical leaves, 
with a long, narrow, sheathing base, immature in the specimen, but apparently resembling 
those of Eulophia ($ Orthochilus) abyssinica, Reichb. f. Only the upper part of the mature 
peduncles was present, 1 foot long by 4 in. diameter below, and striate, with long, acute, 
sheathing bracts, which are membranous, pale brown, with fine veins, and their edges 
connate for more than half their length, slightly spreading at the tip, the two lower 
3-31 in. long, the uppermost 24-25 in. The inflorescence forms a dense corymb, 
2 in. high by 2 in. broad near the base. The flowering bracts are subulate, pale 
brown, marked with numerous darker veins, and exceed the stalked ovary; the lower- 
most 14 lines long, the size decreasing upwards. The outer flowers are the larger. The 
sepals are 10-13 lines long by 4-6 broad; the petals are smaller, 8 by 3 lines, but other- 
wise similar. The small oblong lateral lobes of the lip, 3 lines long by 2 broad, are 
entire and glabrous; the central, almost suborbicular, lobe measures 6 by 53 lines, has a 
long-haired tomentum on the disk, with two knob-like warts on the veins just at its union 
with the lateral lobes. The short thick column is 2 lines long by 1 wide, and has thin 
wings ; the short blunt spur is 2 lines long. i 
Hab. Lower Milanji, 2,500 ft., Oct. 1891 (4. Whyte, no. 257); Manganja Hills 
(Livingstone's Zambesi Exped. 1861; Herb. Kew.); Livingstone's S. African Exped. 
(Herb. Kew.); Uganda, 1880 (Rev. C. T. Wilson, no. 114; Herb. Kew.) ; Nyasa-land, 
1891 (Buchanan, nos. 349 & 1328; Herb. Kew.). 
Near E. bicolor, Reichb. f., but differs in its slightly smaller flowers and corymbose 
inflorescence, that of Æ. bicolor being a somewhat crowded raceme, twice the length; 
also in the lip, which is more delicate and devoid of the purple colour on the lateral lobes 
which characterizes those of E. bicolor, where moreover the long-haired tomentum is 
absent, scattered tufts of short filiform calli taking its place. 
It is also near Æ. ($ Orthochilus) abyssinica, Reichb. f., but distinguished by the shape of 
the lip as well as by its larger flower and more crowded inflorescence. 
EuLoPHIa Nyas#, Kendle, sp. n. Herba pedunculo sesquipedali, basi folio vaginante cir- 
cumdato, infra tereti, supra sulcato, bractea triangulari-ovata acuta, supra basin 
breviter connatam libera, pedunculum autem arcte amplectante ; racemo laxo secundo 
9-pollicari, bracteis subulatis, patentibus, uninerviis, pedicella brevia paullo exceden- 
