Zis80chilu8.] cxxxiii. OBCHiDEiE (rolfe). 95 



refexed sides; disc with 9-11 granulate keels; spur slenderly conical, 

 a little shorter than the front lobe of the lip. 



ImO-wct Guinea. Angola : Malange, Mechow, 264. 



Only known to me from tbe original description, 



71. L. orthoplectrus, Reichh.f. in Otia Bot. Hamh.i. 63. Scapes 

 elongate, 2 ft. high, with a few distant sheaths ; racemes lax, many- 

 flowered. Bracts triangular, setaceous, 5 lin. long, much exceeded by 

 the pedicellate ovary. Flowers brown, striped with purple. Sepals 

 oblong-triangular, apiculate, scarcely 5 lin. long. Petals elliptical, 

 acute, 6-7 lin. long. Lip trilobed ; side lobes semiovate ; front lobe 

 ligulate, subacute ; disc with 5 thick crenulate lamellae ; spur conical, 

 straight. 



KTlle ]Lancl. Niamniam ; north of the Uzze River, Schweinfurth, 3270. 

 Only known to me from the original description. 



72. L. Wakefieldii, Reichh.f. d- S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1878, 136. 

 Khizome stout. Leaves elongate-linear, acute or acuminate, 6-9 in. or 

 more long. Scapes 2 J-4 ft. long, with several sheaths below ; racemes 

 6-11 in. long, laxly many-flowered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3-7 lin. long. Pedicels 7-10 lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, apiculate 

 or shortly acuminate, 3-5 lin. long, green. Petals broadly ovate, apicu- 

 late, 9-10 lin. long, bright yellow. Lip pandurate-oblong, obtuse, 

 9-10 lin. long; basal auricles rounded, adnate to the base of the 

 column ; front lobe convex ; disc with 3-7 bright yellow keels, stout 

 and crenulate below, narrower and entire above ; spur conical, lJ-3 lin. 

 long. Column stout, 2 J-5 lin. long ; foot very short. — Reichb. f . Otia 

 Bot. Hamb. ii. 76 ; Eulophia dispersa, N. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 

 1892, 127 ; Lissochilus dispersus, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1893, xiii. 

 684. 



ITile X>and. British East Africa : Mombasa, Hildehrandt, 1044 and 1044c of 

 1876 and 1877 collections, 1951b (ex Reichenhach) ; Teita Dist., Buityuma, Kilde- 

 hrandt (ex Reichenhach) ; Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor ! Nyika country, near 

 Mombasa, found in many districts, Wakefield ! Rabai Hills at Jomvu, Wakefield ! 

 Ribe, Wakefield! 



lUEozamb. Dlat. Zanzibar, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Mlanje, WJiyte ! 

 Lake Nyasa, Livingstonia, cultivated specimens ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower 

 Zambesi, Shupanga, on grassy plains. Kirk ! near Morambala, Kirk ! Bechuanaland : 

 banks of the Zuga River, near Lake Ngami, McCdbe ! 



The above all appear to be forms of one variable species. 



73. L. brevisepalus, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1895, 195. Scapes 

 2-21 ft. high, with a few short sheaths below ; racemes about 6 in. long, 

 laxly many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, acute, 2J-3 lin. long. Pedicels 

 7-8 lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, or apiculate, 3 lin. long. 

 Petals suborbicular, 6-7 lin. long. Lip pandurate, 6-7 lin, long ; side 

 lobes auriculate or rounded-oblong, somewhat adnate to the foot of the 

 column; front lobe broadly elliptical or suborbicular-elliptical, apiculate, 



