Species typica sectionis:—M. ewilis Lindl. 
The species of this section are characterised by the 
small or even minute flowers and the column structure. 
The androclinium is almost horizontal or at most gently 
sloping upward from the front while the rostellum-lobes 
are comparatively short. 
1. Microcoelia conica (Schlechter) Summerhayes 
comb, nov. 
Angraecum conicum Schlechter in Engler Bot. Jahrb. 
38 (1906) 160. 
Gussonea conica Schlechter in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 
36, Abt. 2 (1918) 91, et in Fedde Repert. Spec. Nov. 
Beih. 68 (1982) t. 96, no. 882. 
Mozambique: Near Beira, April 1885, Schlechter. 
| have not seen this species but from the description 
and illustration it should fall into this section. Schlechter’s 
comparison with Angraecum cyclochilum Schitr., which 
is a species with an elongated stem, raises the possibility 
that the present species is similar in that respect, but un- 
fortunately the description provides no definite informa- 
tion on this point. In his revision Schlechter places it 
among the short-stemmed forms (see above reference). 
2. Microcoelia exilis Lindley Gen. & Sp. Orch. PI. 
(1830) 61. 
Angraecum Chiloschistae Reichenbach filius in Linn- 
nea 20 (1847) 678, et in Walpers Ann. 1 (1849) 791— 
Bolus Te. Orch. Austr.-Afric. 1 (1898) t. 6, et in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 25 (1889) 186—Durand 
& Schinz Consp. Fl. Afr. 5 (1892) 40—Rolfe in Dyer 
Fl. Cap. 5, ii (1912) 74. 
Gussonea evilis Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
Bot. 21 (1885) 493, et in Journ. Bot. 24 (1886) 292 — 
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