74 ORCHIDES (Rolfe). | Angraecum. 
ne. maar ae (Reichb. f. in Linnea, xx. 678); a very 
a leafless epiphyte ; roots numerous, slender ; stem very short ; 
racemes spreading, very slender, 3-12, from the summit of the stem, 
2—4 (or occasionally 8) in. long, lax, many-flowered ; bracts lanceo- 
late, very minute; pedicels very short; flowers unk white ; 
sepals ities oblong a pbovateoblong ees oe under ,!y 1 
latter being winged and having a free basal angle ; anther lar 
nearly square ; pollinia 2, subglobose, attached to a single clavate 
stipes ; gland ovate, small. tar in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 186, 
and Ie. Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. ; Rolfe in Sarit Fl. Trop. Afr. vii. 
149; Durand & Schinz, Gece Fi. al 
“RN Reaion: Natal ; r Tongaat, Mrs. K. anon and in Herb. 
Bolus, 6219! and without sar  kieality, Sadlanta) ! Wood 
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 
X. LISTROSTACHYS, Reichb. f. 
Sepals a petals subequal, free, spreading or subconnivent. Lip 
affixed to the base of the column and continuous with it, produced 
at the ne aot a cylindrical, often long and slender spur; side 
lobes small or obsolete, situated at the mouth of the spur ; limb 
spreading or erect, entire or obscurel ly 3-lobed. Column very short, 
broad, concave in front, without wings, footless ; anther-bed -trun- 
cate, entire. Anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, convex, often 
produced in front, scarcely 2-celled; pollinia 2, globose, sulcate, 
ie Capsule oblong or fusiform 
c herbs; stems leafy, usually short, not thickened into pseudobulbs 
Epi 
leave sds coriaceous or fleshy, articula ted to a a persistent sheath ; panels 
mei ; flowers racemose or capitate, very various in size ; bracts small or 
aoe 
TRIB. Species about 70, exclusively African or epee Sg majority 
belie Tropical African, The single South African species is endemi 
1. L. arcuata (Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 907) ; stems ay 
ry 
in. long; raceme s di stichous, died, many flowered 4 bracts ovate 
or roundish-ovate concave, membranous, }-} in. long; pedicels 
stout, about }~ in. long; flowers hong sepals recurved, linear- 
lanceolate, very acuminate, fleshy, }—} in. long; petals rather 
smaller than the sepals, otherwise similar ; lip similar to the sepals 
