BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CamBripGr, MassacuuseTts, Marcu 18, 1951 
VoL. 14, No. 9 
NEW ORCHIDS FROM AFRICA 
Be 
V. S. SUMMERHAYES 
(Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 
THIS PAPER contains descriptions of two new genera 
of Angraecoid orchids and new species belonging to vari- 
ous other genera of African orchids. The type specimens 
are in the Kew Herbarium unless stated otherwise. 
Habenaria (§ Multipartitae) falciloba Swmmer- 
hayes sp. nov. inter omnes species sectionis labelli lobis 
lateralibus integris faleatim incurvatis, brachiis stigmati- 
feris e basi liberis facile distinguitur. 
Herba verisimiliter terrestris, circiter 1 m. alta, fere 
omnino glabra; tubera non visa. Caulis erectus, robus- 
tus, inferne circiter 1 em. diametro, fere teres, basi rad- 
ices numerosas flexuosas 1-2 mm. diametro emittens, 
inferne cataphyllis paucis vaginantibus apice obtusis su- 
perioribus foliaceis instructus, superne circiter 9-foliatus, 
Folia erecto-patentia vel suberecta, late lanceolata, apice 
+ acuminata, usque ad 20 cm. longa et 6 cm. lata, sur- 
sum decrescentia in bracteas abeuntia, tenuiter coriacea 
vel subcarnosa. Racemus rectus, circiter 25 cm. longus 
et 8 em. diametro, subdense circiter 35-florus; rhachis 
teres, 3-4 mm. diametro; bracteae foliaceae, anguste 
lanceolatae, acuminatae, subtus leviter carinatae, usque 
ad 5 cm. longae et 1.5 mm. latae, inferiores flores ae- 
quantes. Flores adscendentes; pedicellus cum ovario 
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