22 cxxxiii. ORCHiDEiE (rolfe) [LipaHs. 



.8. I*, capensis, Lindl. in Ann. Nat, Hist. ser. i. iv. 314 ? Pseudo- 

 bulbs globose or ovoid, 5-9 lin. broad, 2-3-leaved. Leaves ovate, 

 subobtuse or apiculate, with broad sheathing base, f-l^ in. long. 

 Scapes 3-4 J in. high ; racemes many-flowered. Bracts linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, 2-6 lin. long. Capsule oblong or elliptical-oblong, pedicel] ed, 

 3-4 lin. long. — Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 218 ; Engl. Hochgeb. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. 187. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 6000-7000 ft., Mann, 2129 ! 



The specimens, which are in fruit only, have heen identified with the South 

 African L. capensis, Lindl., but the determination requires confirmation when flowers 

 are available. 



9. L. Guingangae, Reichh.f. in Flora, 1867, 103. A small plant, 

 3 in. high. Pseudobulbs minute, globose, 2-leaved. Leaves lanceolate, 

 mucronate, spreading, J lin. long, 2 in. broad. Scape slender, angulate ; 

 raceme few-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, IJ lin. 

 long. Flowers small, whitish or pale yellow. Dorsal sepal linear, \ lin. 

 long; lateral ones ovate, slightly falcate, equalling the lip. Petals 

 linear. Lip ovate, apiculate. Column slender, erect ; apex incurved. — 

 Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 274. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Morro de Monino, Welwitsch, 723 ! 



5. BULBOPHYLLUM, Thou.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 501. 



Dorsal sepal free, erect, or spreading; lateral ones oblique at the 

 base and adnate to the foot of the column, forming a chin, erect or 

 spreading, free or rarely connate, sometimes larger than the dorsal one. 

 Petals mostly smaller and narrower than the sepals. Lip contracted at 

 the base, and articulated to the foot of the column, mostly recurved, 

 usually small and more or less fleshy, glabrous, ciliate, minutely toothed 

 or barbate ; side lobes mostly small or obsolete. Column erect, mostly 

 very short ; apex with two or rarely four variously shaped teeth ; base 

 produced into a longish foot. Anther terminal operculate, incumbent, 

 usually somewhat depressed, 2- or rarely 1-celled ; poUinia waxy, normally 

 4, but usually more or less connate in pairs, unappendaged or rarely 

 cohering by a viscid exudation. Capsule ovoid or oblong. — Herbs with 

 more or less creeping rhizomes. Pseudobulbs sessile in the axil of a 

 sheath, ovoid-oblong, 4-angled or subcompressed, rarely absent, 1 or 

 2-leaved. Scapes arising from the base of the pseudobulbs, simple, 

 their bases bearing numerous sheaths. Flowers in spikes, racemes or 

 umbels, rarely solitary ; rhachis slender or thickened, but not flattened. 

 Bracts often small, occasionally larger and imbricate. — Trihrachia, 

 Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 832. Taurostalix, Eeichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 

 1852, 933. 



A genus of nearly 300 species, found almost throughout the tropics, but most 

 numero 3 in India and Malaya. 

 *Lip entire or nearly so. 



f Pseudobulbs normally 2.1eaved ; flowers spicate. 

 Bracts under 2 lin. long. 



