nlophia. | ORCHIDEZ (Rolfe). 43 
pressed sae ned ee ; cnt reduced to short linear acuminate 
sheaths situated at the base of the stem, pallid (Schlec och : ei 
creiiae fascicled (Schlechter), slender, somewhat flexu ft. 
hig a few narrow sheaths below ; oe hoe 0-8 in. long, 
8-12 dwebed bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, }—} in. long ; pedicels 
slender, } to over 3 in. long ; flowers pallid (Selecter) ; seal linear, 
acute, very narrow at the base, over } in. long, a 
erect, I-nerved; petals oblong, apiculate, subconniv ent, 3-nerved, 
under } in. long ; lip 3-lobed, over } in. 
obtuse or rounded at the apex ; front lobe suborbicular or obovate- 
oblong, undulate, over } in. long; disc with 5 crenulate keels, more 
prominent and verrucose or papillose in front ; spur ites obtuse, 
somewhat diverging, over } in. long ; column clavate, } ; ng 
Eastern Recion: Delagoa wed near the Inkomati River, opposite Incanhini 
Island, 50 ft., and near Massinga in the Inhambane region at 100 ft., Schlechter ; 
Inyamasan, Schlechter, 12075! 
Schlechter esis this as allied to the Tropical African ZL. galeoloides, Kranz] 
and £. gastrodioides, Schlechter, and remarks that all three are pallid and half- 
saprophytic leafless herbs. 
2a “ Mepis Soa f. in Flora, 1881, atl ; leaves about 
4 , ; 
sa wee Ba dangle oblong imbricate acute Teatie at the 
acuminate sheaths; racemes subcorymbose, dense ; : bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, about } in. long ; pedicels about 4 lin. long ; 
flowers rather large, Doge and purple ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, nearly 1 in. 3 petals elliptic- “ereees. acu roader 
than the sepals ; lip tindadlly elliptic, 3-lobed, } in. long ; side lobes 
, with rounded apex ; front lobe with found ed apex, nearly as 
broad as long ; disc with 5 to 7 verrucose Na ga ge papillose in 
front ; Let "broad y oblong, truncate, about ,'), in. long; column 
clavate, } in. long. Bolus in A op Linn. ly xxv. 184; Durand 
d: Schinz, Piaeieck Fl. Afr. v 
: Katanart Reaion: Orange River Colony ; without precise locality, Cooper, 
77! 
Ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shortly a 1-1} in. long; 
lip broadly elliptic, about as long as the petals, 3-lobed, side lobes 
short, broadly rounded ; front lobe suborbicular, obtuse, very broad ; 
