Brachycoo^ythis.] cxxxiii. orchide^ (rolfe). 201 



Leaves about 40, lower 2 in. long . . . Z. B. Schioeinfurthii. 



Leaves about 20, lower 3:^ in. long . . ^. B. Welwitschii. 



Lip bilobed . . . . . . . b. B. pleiatophylla. 



Lip about 2\ lin. long Q. B. parvifiora. 



Plant under 6 in. high. 



Lip 4-5 lin. long 7. -B. Pumilio. 



Lip 7-8 lin. long 8. ^. Lastii, 



1. B. Kalbreyeri, Reichh.f. in Flora, 1878, 77. Plant 9-16 in. 

 or more high, with stout, woolly roots. Stem straight or flexuous, 

 densely or distantly leafy, sheathed below. Leaves about 12, ligulate, 

 acuminate, 1 J-3 in. long, 4-6 lin. broad, slenderly 13-nerved. Racemes 

 few- to many-flowered ; rhachis minutely puberulous. Bracts leafy, 

 longer than the velvety ovaries, oblong-ligulate, acute, .11-1 3-nerved. 

 Flowers fragrant, violet-purple. Sepals f in. long ; dorsal elliptical, 

 subacute ; lateral oblong-triangular, subacute. Petals elliptical, obtuse- 

 angled, rhomboid, apiculate, broader than the sepals. Lip 1 in. long, 

 angled at the base ; limb elliptic-obovate, trifid in front ; side lobes 

 broadly triangular or rotundate, obtuse, oblique ; front lobe minutely 

 triangular ; spur obscurely saccate, minute. — Reichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. 

 i. 59. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Victoria and Mapanja, 4500-6300 ft., on lava, 

 Kalhreyer ! 



2. B. pubescens, Harv. Thes, Cap. i. 35, t 54. Plant 1-2 ft. high, 

 velvety all over, densely leafy. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, or acuminate, |-1 J in. long, decreasing into sheaths below and 

 t)racts above. Racemes 3-8 in. long, dense-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, 

 acuminate, J— 1 in. long. Flowers white and flesh-coloured. Dorsal 

 sepal elliptic-oblong, obtuse, concave, 3 lin. long; lateral obliquely 

 semiovate-oblong, obtuse, 3|^ lin. long. Petals obliquely semiovate- 

 oblong, 2| lin. long. Lip 3J-4 lin. long, with a pair of rounded 

 auricles at the gibbous or subsaccate base, constricted and bent above 

 the base, cuneately dilated and trilobed above ; side lobes rounded, 

 obtuse ; front lobe shorter than the side, broadly triangular ; disc 

 obtusely carinate, and with a pair of rounded calli between the 

 auricles. Column IJlin. long. — Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1895, 295. Peri- 

 stylus hispidulus and var. minor, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 398. 



Srile Iiand. British East Africa : North-east of Kariandusi, near the south end 

 of Lake Elmenteita, 7000 ft., in woods, Gregory ! 



Jtovrer Guinea. Angola : Pungo Adongo ; Barrancos de Catete, in wet 

 thickets, very rare, Welwitsch, 693 ! 



Mozamb. I>ist> British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, near 

 Blantyre, Last ! Mlange, Scott-Elliot, 8687 ! and without precise localitv, Buchanan, 

 512 ! 572 ! 



Also found in the Transvaal and Natal. 



3. B. Schweinfarthii, Reichb. f. Otia Bot. llamh. i. 59. Plant 

 tall, 2 J-2 J ft. high. Leaves about 40, cuneate-ligulate, acute, 5-nerved, 

 lower 3-3J in. long, 7-8 lin. broad ; nerves prominent below. 

 Inflorescence 6 in, long, dense-flowered ; apex comose. Bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, most of them as long as the flowers, 



