IGG cxxxiii. ORCHiDE^ (rolfe). [Listvostachys . 



42. I«. capitata, Iteiohh.f. in Flora, 18G5, 190. Stems very short, 

 5-8-leaved. Leaves linear-oblong, shortly and unequally bidentate, 

 7-9 in. long, 8-10 lin. broad ; base conduplicate. Bracts oblong, obtuse, 

 membranous, 4-G lin. long. Pedicels o lin. long. Flowers in dense, 

 globose, sessile, radical heads, 1 in. long, pale rose-coloured. Sepals 

 and petals oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long. Lip broadly ovate, cucullate, 

 about 2 lin. long ; spur stout, funnel-shaped at the base, clavate-inflated 

 at the apex, ?>}, lin. long. — Angrcecum capitatum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. vi. 1?,7. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Delta : Brass, Barter, 1857 ! 



Specimens from the Xun River, on mangroves, Barter, 20106 ! and from Assiji- 

 Yan-Coomassie, Ashanti, Cummins, 87 ! apparently represent nearly allied species. 



4o. L. cephalotes, Beichh.f. in Gard. Chron. 1872, 1G87. Plant 

 somewhat caulescent. Leaves ligulate, rigid, thick, G-8 in. long, about 

 5 lin. broad ; apex unequally bilobed. Heads lateral, below the leaves, 

 with imbricate sheaths passing into the bracts. Sepals and petals 

 ligulate. Lip trilobed, crenulate, sheathing the column ; side lobes 

 semiovate ; front lobe ligulate, retuse, emarginate ; spur ample, 

 cylindric, obtuse, constricted in the middle, nearly as long as the 

 pedicel. Column stout ; rostellum trifid ; middle lobe subulate, short, 

 ascending ; side lobes lanceolate ; stipites 2, apex cupulate ; gland 

 elongate, lanceolate. 



IVest Tropical Africa. "Without locality : cultivated specimens. 



Flowered in the collection of W. Wilson Saunders in 1872. Described as being very 

 near L. capliata, Reichb. f., but the sheaths of the inflorescence broader, the lip hastate 

 at the base, and the spur shorter and stouter. I have not seen it. 



44. L. glomerata, Rolfe. Plant subacaulescent. Leaves linear- 

 oblong, 3-4 in. long, G-7 lin. broad ; apex shortly and unequally bilobed ; 

 lobes obtuse or bidenticulate. Kacemes subsessile, capitate, l-lj in. 

 long, with several oblong, obtuse, imbricate sheaths at the base. Bracts 

 oblong, obtuse, concave, ^ in. long. Sepals and petals oblong, obtuse, 

 3 lin. long. Lip suborbicular-oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. long; base sub- 

 auriculate and clasping the column; spur stoiit, narrowly funnel-shaped 

 at the base, the upper half subclavate-inflated, 4 lin. long. Column 

 stout, 1 lin. long ; pollinia with 2 slender stipites, and a linear-oblong 

 gland; rostellum bilobed; lobes subulate, ascending. — Angrcecum 

 glomeratum, Ridl. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 678. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : cultivated specimens, Schroder ! 



Originally flowered in the collection of Major Lendy, in 1885, and is said to have 

 been introduced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., through their collector, S, Schroder. A 

 fruiting specimen from Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! apparently belongs here. 



45. L. Braunii, Durand d- Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 48. Plant 

 subacaulescent. Roots thick. Leaves lorate, stout, unequally bilobed, 

 obtuse, 4 in. long, 7 lin. broad ; base conduplicate. Racemes congested 

 into a 20-30-flowered head. Bracts oboval, acute, membranous, 

 shorter than the flowers. Flowers 2 lin. diam. Sepals and petals 



