laterales parvi, erecti, acuti; lobus intermedius multo 
major, ex ungue brevi transverse elliptico-oblongus, apice 
late retusus apiculo interjecto, marginibus breviter lacer- 
atis; calear basi dependens, triente apicali valde incur- 
vatum, apice valde inflatum. Co/uwmna brevis, apice trun- 
‘ata sed dorso in apiculum producta, androclinio fere 
horizontali; anthera hemisphaerica, antice in rostrum 
triangulare breve producta; pollinia globosa, stipite uno 
perlongo angustissimo apice valde dilatato, viscidio line- 
ari-ligulato stipite multo breviore; rostellum horizontale, 
ornithorrhynchum, columna duplo vel triplo longius, 
marginibus recurvatis, viscidio amoto apice per 1.5 mm. 
longo bipartitum. 
EK. macrorrhynchium (Schitr.) Sum- 
Species unica: 
merh. 
Encheiridion macrorrhynchium (Schlechter) Sum- 
merhayes comb, nov. 
Angraecum macrorrhynchium Schlechter in’ Engler 
Bot. Jahrb. 88 (1905) 22. 
Gussonea macrorrhynchia Schlechter in Beih. Bot. 
Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2 (1918) 98, et in Fedde Repert. 
Spec. Nov. Beih. 68 (1982) t. 97, no. 388. 
Microcoelia macrorrhynchia Summerhayes in Hutch- 
inson & Dalziel Fl. West. Trop. Afr. 2 (1936) 454. 
Gotp Coast: Pamu Berekum, Sept. 1982, Vigne 2490. 
Frencu Cameroons: Dja R., Oct. 1899, Schlechter 12785 (not seen) 
(Type); Ja River, Bitye, near the Ndu River, Sept. 1918, Bates 1429. 
Gapon: Upper Ogoué River, ‘Tomisimba, May 1931, Le Testu 8801. 
The above remarkable plant must, in my opinion, be 
removed from Microcoelia and torm a new genus. The 
characteristic features are the curiously shaped trilobed 
lip and the column structure, particularly the long hori- 
zontal rostellum which is two to three times as long as 
the column. There is some doubt as to the exact inter- 
pretation of the lip structure. Schlechter treats the two 
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