6 III. ORCHiDE^. [Lissochilus 



locality in Angola, on clay soil among Euphorbiacete, near Cacuaco, 

 Barra do Bengo. Beginning of Jan. 1854. No. 652. 



4. L. aurantiacus Echb. f. in Flora 1865, p. 187 ; Durand & 

 Schinz, I.e., p. 27 ; Eolfe, I.e., p. 96. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Tubercles succulent, thick, subtriangular, de- 

 pressed, two or seveial. moniliform united by a narrow isthmus, 

 generally sending out first a flowering scape, then a cluster of leaves. 

 Leaves glaucous-green, many times shorter than the scape ; scape erect, 

 purplish, with few scales. Flowers nodding-pendulous ; sepals copper- 

 coloured ; petals much larger ovate-orbicular, a deep bright yellow 

 above, rose-coloured beneath, streaked with longitudinal purple veins ; 

 labellum yellow-red. On sunny heights and shortly-grassed pasture 

 slopes among gneiss rocks of the prsesidium and near Cazella. In fl. 

 Oct., Nov., Dec. 1856, in fr. Jan. 1857. No. 691. 



5. L. Friderici Rchb. f. in Flora 1867, p. 113 ; Durand & Schinz, 

 Z.C., p. 28 ; Rolfe, I.e., p. 88. 



Ambaca. — 2 ft. high ; flowers yellow, nodding, bi-coloured ; leaves 

 and root not seen. On thicket-grown plains near Zamba, in places 

 once cultivated now abandoned. Oct. 1856. No. 676. 



6. L. angolensis Echb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 64 (1878) ; 

 Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 27; Eolfe, I c, p. 76. 



Cymbidium anyolense Echb. f. in Flora 1865, p. 188. 



HuiLL.ii.. — Rhizome long, horizontal, creeping, succulent, as thick 

 as a finger, sparsely fibrous, a dull cinnamon colour, producing at 

 intervals of 10 or 12 in., leaf and scape-bearing nodes. Leaves during 

 flowering period little developed, growing in an erect tuft close to 

 the scape, and half its length or shorter, rigidulous ; scape 2 to 2| ft. 

 erect, striate-angular, dull purple, ending in a raceme, with distant 

 scales below and in the middle. Bracts dull purple, ovary elongate- 

 clavate, furrowed, moderately twisted ; sepals dull purple, petals a 

 little wider, and like the column greenish-yellow ; lip deflexed, very 

 obtusely saccate, scarcely lobed, longitudinally streaked with purple, 

 crispulately wavy in fruit, livid-purplish. Rather rare in damp sunny 

 places by streams near Quibbe and N-lala. In fl. beginning of Nov. 

 1859. No. 734. 



7. L. giganteus Welw. ex Echb. f. in Flora 1865, p. 187 ; Durand 

 & Schinz, I.e., p. 28 ; Rolfe, I.e., p. 87. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — Gigantic, tubers palmate compressed, copper- 

 coloured, spongy, leaves radical, 4 to 5 ft., erect, palmlike ; scape 

 6 to 8 ft. high, erect, almost an inch thick at the base ; spike in the 

 larger specimens \h ft. long, and rose-purple ; flowers very large. 

 Boggy places by streams, Sobato de Quilombo and on the right of the 

 Ambaca road near Camilungo : in boggy and marshy places near 

 Quilombo-Quiacatubia, at about 2200 ft. elevation : in boggy places 

 on the banks of the Cuango and elsewhere near Camilungo, growing 

 along with Tmiha angustifoUa and similar plants. In fl. beginning of 

 Oct. 1856. Uppermost part of a stalk 2-7 metres high, with 35 flowers. 

 Yarzea do Indrio ; aO April, 1856. No. 673. Scape 8 to 11 ft. high. 

 Coll. Carp. 99G. 



8. L. Welwitschii Echb. f., I.e., p. 188 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., 

 p. 31 ; Rolfe, I.e., p. 87. 



Huilla.— A gigantic herb, 4 to 8 ft., with a spongy tuberous root, 



