84 cxxxiii. ORCHiDEiE (rolfe). [^LissochUuB . 



triangular, aristate or acuminate, 10-15 lin. long. Petals broadly 

 elliptical, obtuse, 12-13 lin. long, 8-9 lin. broad. Lip very broadly 

 pandurate, emarginate or bilobed, obtuse-angled, l-l| in. long, and 

 broad ; disc with a pair of styliform, capitate or bilobed calli in front 

 of the spur, and the median nerve slightly thickened and obscurely 

 crenulate below ; spur saccate, very obtuse, 3-4 lin. long. — Reichb. f. 

 in Flora, 1885, 379. 



ILcs^er Guinea. Angola : Malange, Mechoiv, 203, and without locality, 

 1500-1800 ft., Micholitz ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; near Munsa, Schweinfurthy 

 ser. ii. 21 ! 



Closely allied to L. dilectus, Reichb. f. and chiefly differing in the styliform crests 

 I have not seen the original specimens, but the one collected by Micholitz apparently 

 belongs to the same species. It is also found in the Comoro Islands, according to- 

 Eeichenbach. 



34. Ij. Bi:^ettneri9 Krdnzl. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 53. Scapes 

 strong, over 3 ft. high, with 7-8 acute sheaths; racemes about 30- 

 flowered. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, aristate, shorter than the ovary. 

 Flowers red, 1-lJ in. diam. Sepals ligulate, acute and apiculate. 

 Petals obovate, twice as broad as the sepals, retuse or emarginate, with 

 an apiculus in the sinus. Lip trilobed ; side lobes erect, triangular, 

 rounded at the apex ; front lobe narrowly cuneate below, much dilated 

 and bilobed above, with an apiculus in the sinus ; spur very obtusely 

 saccate. Column a third as long as the lip, dilated above and very slen- 

 derly margined. 



Upper Guinea. Togoland ; Bismarcksburg, Augauje Steppe, Biittner, 415. 

 Only known to me from the original description, where the affinity is not stated. 



35. L. Horsfallii, Batem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5486. Rhizome stout. 

 Leaves elongate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 2-3 ft. long, 3-4 in. or 

 more broad. Scapes about 4 ft. high, with several sheaths ; racemes 

 12-lG in. long. Bracts ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate,, 

 ■j-l^ in. long. Pedicels 1J-2;| in. long. Sepals lanceolate-oblong, 

 acute or subacuminate, 9-11 lin. long, purple; lateral adnate to the- 

 foot of the column. Petals suborbicular-elliptical, obtuse or subapicu- 

 late, 10-12 lin. long, pinkish-white. Lip trilobed, 12-13 lin. long; 

 side lobes broadly rounded, and green veined with brown ; front lobe 

 ovate-oblong, subobtuse or apiculate, undulate, purple ; disc with 3 

 dv^^arf, crenulate keels about the middle ; spur conical, with an acute 

 apex, 3-4 lin. long. Column clavate, G-7 lin. long ; foot half as long as 

 the column. — Batem. Sec. Cent. Orch. t. 121 ; Beichb. f. in Flora, 

 1865, 188; Kranzl. in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 439. 



TTpper Guinea. Old Calabar River, cultivated specimens, Cheetham ! 

 liO-wer Guinea. Gaboon, Soyaux (ex Krdnzlin). Lower Congo, near PontO' 

 da Lenha, Naumann, 157 (ex Krdnzlin ). 



Mozamb. Bist. Manganja Hills, near Chipindu, 2000 ft., Kirlc I 

 Originally flowered in the collection of J. B. Horsfall, Esq., in 1864. 



36. Ii. porphyroglossuSy Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamh. i. 61. Leaves 

 elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, long petiolate, 3 J ft. long. If in. broad, 



