Eulophia.'] cxxxiii. orchide^ (rolfe). 51 



Scapes erect, 1-2 ft. high; racemes 4-6 in. long, many-flowered. 

 Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1-3 lin. long. Pedicels 5-8 lin. long. 

 Flowers green, petals and lip with a few broad black lines, centre of the 

 sepals black. Sepals and petals broadly elliptical-oblong, obtuse, 5-6 

 lin. long. Lip 5-6 lin. long, four-lobed; side lobes broad, rounded ; 

 front pair similar but larger ; disc smooth, with a broad erect bilobed 

 tubercle at the base; spur clavate- or subclavate-oblong, lJ-2 lin. long. 

 Column stout.— E-eichb. f. in Flora, 1878, 77 ; Xen. Orch. ii. 174, t. 

 173. Lissochiliis barombie7isis, Kranzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 52. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, Millen, 150! Ashantee, Assin-yan-Coomassie, Cummins^ 

 222! Cameroons, Prew^*, 96 ! Kalbreyer {enReichenhach). And a cultivated specimen 

 without locality ! 



Flowered at Kew in 1864, and in the collection of W. Wilson Saunders about the 

 same time, being described from the latter source, and said to have been introduced 

 by Mann. Lissochiltis haromhiensis, Kranzl., is clearly identical. 



4. E. ^aciliSy Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 74:2. Stems pseudobulbous at 

 the base, 1-2J in. long. Leaves linear- lanceolate, acute, attenuate 

 and narrow at the base, 1-1 J ft. long, J-1 in. broad. Scapes 1 J-2 ft. 

 high ; racemes 6-9 in. long, lax. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 4-7 lin. 

 long. Pedicels 6-9 Kn. long. Sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, 5-7 lin. 

 long, 2 J lin. broad. Petals rather smaller than the sepals. Lip shortly 

 and broadly funnel-shaped, truncate, deeply fimbriate, with an oblong 

 tooth near the apex ; spur 4 lin. long, conical at the base, constricted in 

 the middle, and clavate at the apex. Column stout, 2 lin. long, puberulous. 

 — Limodorum ciliatum, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PL 400. Galeandra 

 graciliSf Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 187 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 133 ; Reichb. 

 f. in Flora, 1878, 77; Kranzl. in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (1889), 

 156. Galeandra extinctoria^ Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 187. Eulophia 

 ciliata, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 647 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 20. Eulophia Preussii, Kranzl. in Engl., Jahrb. xvii. 54. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Bumban to Lokko, Scott-Elliot, hl^2\ bl^%\ 

 Sugar-loaf Mountain, Preuss ; Bagru River, Mann, 903 ! and without precise locality, 

 Don ! Wilford ! Liberia, Carder ! Lagos, cultivated specimen ! 



I fail to find any character in the description by which to separate E, Preussii, 

 Kranzl. 



5. E. leonensis, Rolfe. Rhizome and leaves not seen. Scape 

 1| ft. high, rather slender; raceme 10 in. long, lax, many-flowered. 

 Bracts linear, acuminate, 2-3 lin. long. Pedicels 4-6 lin. long. Sepals 

 elliptical-oblong, subobtuse, 3 lin. long. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 2 J lin. long. Lip with very short trilobed limb, 1 J lin. long ; side 

 lobes suborbicular ; front lobe ovate-oblong, obtuse ; disc with a very 

 large fleshy callus; spur subclavate, obtuse, 2 J lin. long. Column 

 stout, 1\ lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Bafodeya, in sandy soil on rocky hills, Scott- 

 miiot, 5536 ! 



6. E. stricta, Rolfe. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3-5 lin. 

 long, 7-10 lin. wide. Scapes 2-2\ ft. high, with a few short sheaths 

 below; racemes 1 ft. long, lax, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or 



