1532); Nairobi, Aug. 1933, Napier (Coryndon Mus. Herb. 5213); 
Aberdare Mts., Kinangop district, December 1930, Napier (Coryndon 
Mus. Herb. 724). 
Anoota: Golungo Alto, near River Cuango and at Sobato de Bumba 
near River Casabella, May 1856, Welwitsch 653; Pungo Andongo, 
April 1875, Soyaux 228. 
Nortruern Ruopesta: Mwinilunga District, S. of Matonchi Farm, 
Feb. 1988, Paterson in Milne-Redhead 4651, 
Betaran Conco: Katanga, Elisabethville district, Oct. 1923, Von 
Hirschberg 12. 
Here again is a species with a wide distribution in 
Tropical Africa. The species is closely allied to M. Smithi 
(Rolfe) Summerh. and to IZ. Stolz (Schitr.) Summerh., 
both of which may eventually prove to be local races of 
M. Guyoniana. The species is characterised by the rather 
small flowers, the relatively large obovate or oblong lip 
and the more or less conical-cylindrical spur often slightly 
recurved at the apex. 
I am adopting the epithet Guyoniana as in my opinion 
Angraecum globulosum Hochst. was not validly pub- 
lished by the distribution of Schimper’s exsiccatae. It is 
laid down in the International Rules of Nomenclature 
(Art. 87) that names accompanying exsiccatae are only 
validly published if accompanied also by a description. 
The phrase in brackets on Schimper’s label ‘*‘ Folia min- 
ima ad apicem caulis in globulum conferta’’ does not ap- 
pear to me to be a formal description provided by Hoch- 
stetter but merely an extract from Schimper’s field notes. 
The acceptance of such ‘‘descriptions’’ as validating 
might make it necessary to take up any new name ac- 
companying distributed dried specimens if the collector's 
field notes reproduced on the label happened to contain 
some descriptive phrases. In addition in the present ex- 
ample the phrase does not distinguish the species from 
any other Microcoelia, the character described being a 
generic one. 
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