Lissochilus. | -  ORCHIDEA (Rolfe), 61 
12. L. Sandersoni = f. Otia Bot. Hamb. i. 62); rhizome 
stout, subterranean ; leave or 4 in a fascicle, long-petioled, 
suberect or somewhat seated, elongate-lanceolate, acute, with 5-9 
prominent veins, 3-4 ft. long, 2-4 in. broad ; scapes lateral, erect, 
very stout, 4-5 ft. high, with strong spathaceous sheaths ; raceme 
acuminate, concave or convolute, }—1 in. long ; pedicels about 1 in. 
long ; flowers large ; sepals ovate-oblong, acute, more or less reflexed, 
7-1 in. long, green with brown stripes; petals spreading, broadly 
ovate, subobtuse, 1-14 long, white ; lip strongly 3-lobed, longer 
Chron eet, sxayel7 (Saundersonii - error) ; Bot. Mag. t. 0858 
Rolfe in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vii. 85. L. porphyroglossus, Duran 
& Schinz, Sesines Fl. Afr. v. 30, partly, not of Reichb. ie iulophia 
porphyroglossa, Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxv. 185, par 
Eastern Recion : Natal; The Bluff, Sanderson, as Inanda, Wood, 374! 
and without Predios : iioality, Lyle! Mrs. K. Saunders 
Also in Tropical Africa 
. L.arenarius (Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vi. 133); rhizomes 
much thickened at the nodes ; leaves linear or elongate-lanceolate, 
acute, immature at flowering time, ultimately }—1 ft. or more long ; 
scapes lateral, erect, }-2} ft. long, with several spathaceous sheaths 
Ow ; 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 4-1 in. broad ; pedicels {-1 in. long ; 
flowers large, purple with dusky or olivaceous sepals, and some 
ahocbicular or vie elliptic, 4 }- HE in. long g ; ‘Ep peat very 
2 
broad, rather longer than the petals; side lobes broadly roun 
vi 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 27, Limodorum apie: Afzel. ex 
Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 243, name only; Pers. 
Syn. ii. 521. Eulophia arenaria, Bolus in Journ. Lim pag xxv. 185. 
e Tongaat River, 500 sa 
“seb beget a ek ine a pore Aes aa “te Bolus, Herb. Nor 
Austr,-Afr. 1368 | Umvoti, Mrs. K. pe tne Inanda, Wood, 456! 820! 
Also in East and West Tropical Africa, with almost invariably larger flowers. 
