Angi^cecum.] cxxxiii. orchide^ (rolfe). 141 



Like the Madagascar A. citratum. Thou. I have not seen the Somaliland plant, 

 and the distrihution is remarkable. 



18. A. luteo-album, Krtnzl. in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 158. Stems 

 short. Leaves few, linear-oblong, acute. Pedicels elongate, few- 

 Howered. Bracts minute, triangular. Sepals unguiculate-obovate. 

 Flowers pale yellow. Petals shorter and broader than the sepals, 

 obovate, rotundate. Lip like the petals but larger, rounded in front ; 

 spur filiform, three times longer than the lip. — Kranzl. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxii. 27. 



wile land. British East Africa : forest on the upper Ituri, Sluhlmann, 2650 ; 

 west of Lendu, Shchlmann, 2720. 



Near the Madagascar A. citratum. Thou., but the flowers are described as nearly 

 twice as large, and the leaves linear and smaller. I have not seen it. 



19. A. Rohriiy Reichh. f. Otia Bot. Hamh. ii. 117. Stems very 

 short, with numerous stout roots, 4-6-leaved. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 obliquely and obscurely bidentate, obtuse, 3J-4 in. long, 7-9 lin. broad. 

 Racemes numerous, erect or spreading, somewhat flexuous, 5-6 in. 

 long, many-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, apiculate, li-- lin. long. 

 Pedicels 2 lin. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 2 J lin. long. Petals linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, 2J lin. long. Lip rhomboid, obtuse-angled, 2^ lin. long ; 

 spur slender, with clavate apex, 4-6 lin. long. Column stout, | lin. long; 

 pollinia not seen. 



Wile ]Land. Abyssinia, Roth ! not Rohr, as given by Reichenhach. 



20. A. Quintasii, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc, Brot. ix. 140. Plant dwarf. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, lJ-3 in. long, 3-3 J lin. broad. 

 Racemes subpendulous, slender, 3-4|^ in. long, 8-12-flowered. Bracts 

 ovate, subobtuse, brown. Pedicels 2J lin. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 

 1 1 lin. long. Petals a little smaller than the sepals. Lip ovate, obtuse, 

 IJ lin. long; spur subclavate, 3 lin. long; apex incurved. Column very 

 short ; wings nearly obsolete ; pollinia not seen. Capsule elliptic- 

 oblong, 5 lin. long. 



liO-wer Guinea. St. Thomas, 4000 ft., Quintas, 6 ! 



A very distinct species. The pollinia were absent from the flowers examined. 



21. A. malangeanum, Kranzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. -1^. Stems, 

 roots, and leaves not known. Racemes short, dense ; rhachis very 

 flexuous. Bracts ovate, acute, longer than the ovary. Flowers 

 distichous, including the spur, 7 lin. long, 5 lin. broad. Dorsal sepal 

 oblong, acute; lateral triangular-acuminate, subfalcate from an ovate 

 base. Petals about as long as the sepals, straight. Lip pandurate ; side 

 lobes well developed, rounded ; front lobe subquadrate, with rounded 

 angles ; apex bilobed or sinuate with an apiculus in the angle ; disc with 

 5 slightly thickened lines; spur narrowly funnel-shaped at the mouth, 

 sharply bent and more or less twisted in the middle, then vesicate Jit 



