ME. SCOTT Elliot's tropical afkican orchids. 1G5 



Scirpiis carinatus Sra. In good quantity by the tidal Medway, 

 near Aylesford ; probably a hybrid between S. Tabenuonontani and 

 S. triqueter, with which it seems to be usually, if not always, 

 associated. The Eastwear Bay and other E. Kent stations doubtless 

 belong to S. Tabernoimuntani . 



Carex acuta L. Remarkably plentiful by the Eden, above 

 Penshurst, 16. 



ME. SCOTT ELLIOT'S TROPICAL AFRICAN ORCHIDS. 

 By a. B. Rrndle, M.A., F.L.S. 



Thk following Orchids were recently collected by Mr. G-. F. 

 Scott EUiot in his Ruwenzori expedition. Mr. Elliot started from 

 Mombasa, and proceeded up to Uganda by the ordinary caravan 

 route ; from thence to Ruwenzori, returning by Lake Tanganyika 

 and the Shire Highlands to the mouth of the Zambesi. He collected 

 along the whole route. 



EuLOPmA longepedunculata Reudle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 382. 



Hab. Majichumvi, coast district, Mombasa, No. 6142, Novem- 

 ber (commencement of lesser rains), 1893. 



Distrib. East Equatorial Africa ; probably a coast species. 

 Eulophia humilis, sp. nov. Humihs, foHis linearibus setaceis 

 caulis tenuis basi circumdatis ; racemo pauciiloro bracteis acumi- 

 nato-setaceis, pedicellos baud tequantibus ; floribus pro planta 

 magnis, sepalis longis ligulatis crassiusculis, petalis lanceolatis, 

 labelli lobo medio spathulato, callis iamelliformibus disco iustructo, 

 lateralibus psene rectangulis ascendentibus, basi in saccum calcare 

 brevi terminatum transeuntibus ; columna apoda, alata, anthera 

 valde apiculata, polliniis 4. 



Hab. Ndurandi, 3000-4000 ft.. Shire Highlands, Dec. (lesser 

 rains), 1894, No. 8484. 



A small plant a foot high, the wiry flowering stem clothed at 

 the base with a few short blunt subscarious bracts, above which 

 appear 4 stiff slender grass-like linear leaves, plicate at the midrib, 

 the only perfect one ending in a short bristle ; the longest (damaged 

 at the tip) measured 5 in. The stem bears just below the middle 

 one small sterile membranous bract with a long setaceous tip from a 

 lanceolate base ; the floral bracts are similar ; the two lowest are 

 3 and 4^ lines long respectively. The lax raceme (3^ in.) bears 

 5 flowers. The ligulate sepals have an acute apex, are 1 line broad, 

 the lateral being 10 lines long, the dorsal 9 lines. The more 

 delicate lanceolate petals have an acute apex and 3 median nerves ; 

 they measure 6 by 1^ lines. The large lip measures 1 in. from the 

 end of the short blunt spur (1|- line) to the tip of the central lobe 

 (6 lines long by 3 broad) ; the latter is spreading, with a creuulate 

 margin. The lateral lobes end almost squarely, forming the 

 ascending sides of a chamber equal in height to and evidently in 

 the fresh state embracing the column ; this chamber passes below 



