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MR. SCOTT ELLIOT'S TROPICAL AFRICAN ORCHIDS. 

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



(Concluded from p. 281.) 



Habenaria (§ Multipartuve) prsestans, sp. nov. Caule crasso, 

 foliis lanceolatis amplexicaulibus plus minus obtecto ; racemo 

 bracteoso denso, floribus magnis, sepalis patentibus, dorsali ovato 

 obtuso, lateralibus oblique ovatis sub apice breviter pungentibus, 

 petalis falcatis, sepalo dorsali aduatis et requilongis ; labello tri- 

 partito, segmentis hispidulis, lobo medio anguste lineari, lateralibus 

 liuic jequilongis longe fimbriatis, calcare clavato ovarium baud 

 a3quaute ; processubus stigmaticis longis antice pediformibus, an- 

 tberse canales tenues triple excedentibus. 



Hab. Sunny hills, Ruwenzori, 6000-7000 ft., No. 7808. 



The thick leafy stems reach a height of 2 ft., including the 

 handsome lO-in.-long inflorescence. The broadly lanceolate leaves 

 are continued up to the raceme, the large lanceolate bracts of 

 which resemble them in texture. The latter in the lower part of 

 the raceme may reach a length of 2 in. with a breadth of i- m., 

 and far exceed the ovary on its short stalk (together 1 in.) ; above 

 they are shorter, often scarcely reaching the base of the sepals. 

 The flowers are described as yellow-green. The sepals have 5-7 

 dark nerves, joined by similarly well-marked transverse veins ; 

 they are | in. long, the dorsal being 5 lines broad, the lateral ones 

 4 lines; the latter bear a short dorsal mucro just beneath the apex. 

 The 3-nerved petals are 2^ lines broad. The lip is 1 in. long, its 

 segments are minutely hispid on the upper surface, as in H. 

 splendens; the lateral segments are cut up into a number of 

 forwardly-spreadiug fihform segments. The spur is 8 lines long 

 by Ih in diameter. The stigmatic processes, which resemble those 

 in II. iitaciantha, are nearly 7 lines long, adnate at the base to the 

 anther-cells, the narrow canals of which are 2 lines. 



Is closely allied to the Abyssinian H. macrantha Rchb. f. and 

 H. splendens Rendle, from Kilimanjaro. From the former it differs 

 in its much narrower petals and much fimbriated lateral lobes of 

 the lip, which moreover is hispidulous, and not glabrous above. 

 From H. splendens it is distinguished by the very short spur, shorter 

 non-acuminate petals, as well as by the more fimbriated lip-lobes. 



Habenaria tenuispica, sp. nov. Caule folioso, folhs a basi 

 vaginante lineari-acuminatis ; bractcis lanceolatis acutis, ovaria 

 longa breviter pedicellata baud tequautibus ; spica tenui densifiora, 

 floribus minutis ; sepalo dorsali ovato obtuso subcucuUato, lateralibus 

 vix majoribus reflexis oblongis obtusis, petalis oblique triangulari- 

 ovatis, sepalum dorsale iequantibus, labello trilobo, lobo medio 

 majore, calcare tenui ovario plus duplo breviore ; processubus 

 stigmaticis brevibus crassis apice pediforme valde papilloso, antherse 

 canalibus brevissimis. 



Hab. Butagu, Ruwenzori, 9000 ft., July (rains), 1894, No. 7952. 



A slender plant 2 ft. or more in height ; the lower leaves with a 

 loose membranous sheath, the upper merely amplexicaul at the 



