140 cxxxiii. ORCHiDE^ (bolfe). [Angrcecum, 



tipped with light bujff.^ Lip lanceolate-oblong, acute ; margin and apex 

 wslightly reflexed, a little broader than the petals ; spur slightly curved^ 

 gradually tapering to the apex, 0-10 lin. long. Column clavate, 2h lin. 

 long, white ; wings very short, broad, and truncate ; rostellum curved^ 

 slender, capitate ; stipes of pollinia very slender. — A, elegans, Rolfe in 

 Bolet. Soc. Brot. ix. 140. 



JaO-wer Guinea. St. Thomas, Henriques, garden specimen ! 



Originally liowered in the Coimbra Botanic Garden in 1889. It is about half the 

 size of A. hilohum, Lindl. 



15. A. arachnopus, Reichb.f. in Bonplandia, 1854, 93. Eacemes 

 over 1 ft. long, filiform, few-flowered, subflexuous. Sepals and petals 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Lip about as long as the petals; spur 

 filiform, twice as long as the pedicels. Column slender; stigma central, 

 limb underneath the stigma entire; anther obtuse, conical, limb of 

 androclinium stibentire. — Walp. Ann. vi. 1)05. 



Upper Guinea> Gold Coast, Schiller, garden specimen. 



Flowered in the collection of Consul Schiller in ] 854. Only known to me from 

 the original description, in which it is said to be allied to A. hilohum, Lindl., but to be 

 twice as slender. 



16. A, gracillimum, Krdnzl. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 59, t. 5, 

 figs. B-H. Roots long and slender. Stems very short, about 5-leaved. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong, 3J-5 in. long ; base attenuate ; apex minutely 

 and unequally bidenticulate. Racemes pendulous, very slender, 1-1 J ft. 

 long, few-flowered. Bracts small. Pedicels slender, 1\ in. long. Sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, very acuminate, 2 in. long, spreading. Petals slightly 

 narrower than the sepals, in other respects similar. Lip like the 

 petals but subcordate at the base, 1 J in. long ; spur very slender, clavate 

 at the apex, 8 in. long. Column very slender, subclavate at the apex^ 

 apiculate, 10 lin. long ; rostellum produced into a subulate tooth. 



upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, in the primaeval forest west of Barombi- 

 ba-Mbu, Preuss, 459. 



Remarkable for its very long, slender column. TJie pollinia were missing from the 

 specimen described and figured. 



17. A. rhodostictum, Krdnzl. in Notizbl. K. Bot. Gart. Berlin^ 

 1896, 154. Stems short, with numerous roots, 6-leaved. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, 2-5 in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, apex very unequally 

 lobed. Racemes arching or pendulous, 1 ft. long, many-flowered. 

 Bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1|— 2J lin. long. Pedicels 6-8 lin. long. 

 Flowers white. Dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, apiculate, 5-6 lin. long ; 

 lateral oblong, apiculate, 6 lin. long. Petals obovate, elliptic, apicu- 

 late, 6 lin. long. Lip broadly rhomboid-elliptic, apiculate, 8-9 lin. 

 long; spur curved, slender below, slightly thickened above, l^-l^ in. 

 long. Column stout, li- lin. long. 



Upper Guineao Cameroon Mountains, Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker ^- Stai'.df, 

 434 ! 



STile Xianda Somaliland : between Alghe and Oi, Suspoli-Riva, 1360. 



