Lissochilics.] cxxxiii. orchide^ (rolfe). 03 



and obscurely veiTucose keel at the base ; spur conical-oblong, obtuse, 

 1:^-1 J lin. long. Column stout, clavate, 2 J iin. long. 



ItKozaxnb. Bist. Zanzibar, cultivated specimen ! 



Flowered at Kew in 1882. The dried specimen is imperfect. 



64. If. micrantlius, Krdnzl. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 53. Plant very 

 slender. Leaves linear, 3-nerved, much attenuate at the base and apex. 

 Racemes simple, slender, as long as or shorter than the leaves, with a 

 few acuminate sheaths below. Bracts linear, acuminate, shorter than 

 the ovary. Flowers J in. diam. Sepals obovate-oblong, rounded and 

 apiculate at the apex ; lateral shortly unguiculate. Petals rhomboid - 

 oblong, very obtuse. Lip trilobed ; side lobes erect, triangular, with a 

 rounded apex ; front lobe suborbicular, apiculate, distinctly plicate, 

 without calli ; spur short, conical. 



Nile Xiand. British East Africa : Noro on Mount Kenia, HoJmel, 78, 

 Only known to me from the original description, but said to be near L.^arviflorx'Sy 

 Lindl. 



65. L. Stuhlmanni, AVaTi;^?. i?i ^7^^^. e/«Ar6.xix. 249. Pseudobulb 

 oblong-cylindrical, with 3 or 4 internodes. Leaves, of which 2 are 

 present at flowering time, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 20-24 in. long, 

 or perhaps even longer after flowering. Scapes strong, 5 ft. high, with 

 several sheaths below; racemes laxly many-flowered. Bracts oblong, 

 acute, as long as the pedicels. Flowers J in. diam. Sepals oblong, 

 dark green with red-brown nerves ; dorsal acute ; lateral more obtuse. 

 Petals suborbicular, very obtuse, apiculate, slightly longer than the 

 sepals, yellow. Lip trilobed ; side lobes oblong, acute ; front lobe 

 rounded at the apex, pandurate, compressed, with a central, oblong 

 callus ; spur short, sulcate and reflexed at the apex, ascending. Column 

 broad, dilated above. 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa: Karagwej Bukoba, on Lake Victoria 

 Nyanza, Stuhlmann, 3220. 



Only known to me from the original description. 



66. L. calopterus, Reichh. f. in Bonplandia, iii. 218. Bhizome 

 tuberous. Leaves elongate-linear or lanceolate-linear, acute, 6-18 in. 

 long, 6-13 lin. broad. Scapes 2^-4 ft. high, with a few short sheaths 

 below; racemes 8-12 in. long, "laxly many-flowered. Bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, 3-6 Hn. long. Pedicels 8-10 lin. long. Flowers 

 yellow. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, 3J-4 lin. long, adnate at the base 

 to the foot of the column. Petals ovate, obtuse, or subobtuse, iS-'t> lin. 

 long. Lip pandurate-oblong, 6 Un. long ; side lobes auriculate, rounded ; 

 front lobe elliptic-oblong, obtuse, convex with reflexed sides ; disc 

 with about 9 thickened keels ; spur conical, 2 lin. long. Column stout, 

 21-3 lin. long; foot half as long as the column. — Reichb. f . in Walp. Ann. 

 vT. 670 ; Flora, 1865, 187 ; Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 76 ; Klotzsch in Peters' 

 Mossamb. Bot. 513. 



Xfower Ouinea. Angola: Loanda; near Cacuaco, Welwitsch, 652! Arabriz. 

 in thickets, Monteiro, 2 ! 



