elliptico-lanceolata, acuta, basi in vaginam angustata sed 
vix petiolata, usque ad 8 cm. longa et 2.5 cm. lata, pli- 
cata, textura tenuia, marginibus leviter undulatis. Jn- 
Hlorescentia recta vel leviter curvata, usque ad 8 cm. 
longa, superne sublaxe 2-10-flora; pedunculus teres, 
angustissime alatus, 2-5 em. longus, cataphyllis paucis 
lanceolatis acutis instructus vel nudus; rhachis angulata 
vel anguste alata; bracteae erecto-patentes, lanceolatae, 
acutae, usque ad 8 mm. longae. Fores erecto-patentes, 
virides vel purpureo-striati vel purpureo-tincti; pedicel- 
lus cum ovario circiter 8 mm. longus, gracilis. Sepalum 
intermedium recurvatum, lanceolato-ligulatum, apice 
acutum, basi auriculatum + amplexicaule, 4.5-8.75 mm. 
longum, medio 1.25—2 mm. latum; sepala lateralia primo 
fere ad apicem connata,synsepalum orbiculari-obovatum, 
apice rotundatum, totum 3.5-6.25 mm. longum, 3.25-— 
6.4mm. latum formantia, deémum=libera; omnia sepala 
trinervia. Petala deflexa, linearia, apice obtusa, basi cum 
sepalis adnata dilatata, 5-10 mm. longa, 0.35-1 mm. 
lata, uni- vel subbinervia. Label/um e basi angusta brevi- 
ter auriculata subito dilatatum, subflabellatim transverse 
oblongum, antice truncatum, late emarginatum cum 
apiculo interjecto, marginibus lateralibus grosse denta- 
tis, 8-6.5 mm. longum, 4-7.5 mm. latum, basi callo 
transverso obtuse bidentato instructum. Colwmna incur- 
vata, semiteres, apice dilatata, late alata, 2.3-5 mm. 
longa; anthera cucullata, antice emarginata. 
Betc1an Conco: Ruwenzori, Lanuri, 1700-1800 m. alt., ona rotten 
trunk in the shade, June Ist 1914, Bequaert 4629. 
Uaanpa: Kigezi, impenetrable forest, creeping in moss on shady 
bank in forest, Nov. 1948, Eggeling 5851. 
Kenya Cotony: East Aberdare Mountains, Ocotea forest, in moss 
on tree-fern stems, Dale 1860 (Typr); same locality, Thiririki River, 
Nov. 1937, Cunningham-van Someren 21. 
TANGANYIKA TERRITORY: Lossogonoi, S. by W. of Moshi, summit 
of mountain, 2090 m. alt., in leaf mould on rocky ledge, coll. H.F.I. 
Elliott, cult. and flowered Amani, May 20th 1944, Moreau 770. 
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