lateral ones spreading like the petals, and nearly as broad. PeTats 
or inner divisions streaked with red and yellow, broadly ovate or 
nearly orbicular, very blunt. LaBeLium free from the column, longer 
than the petals, three-lobed, the terminal lobe as long as the lower 
part, yellow, nearly orbicular, convex, marked with longitudinal plaits 
or streaks, of which the three central ones are more prominent; lateral 
lobes broad, short, turned upwards, streaked with purple inside, yel- 
lowish outside. Co.umn thick, greenish, rather shorter than the petals. 
Poputar anp GeocrapHicaL Notice. This is a small African 
genus which was originally separated from Eulophia on account of — 
the great disproportion between the size of the petals and that of the 
sepals, which gives a very distinct appearance to the Lissochilus 
speciosus. If, however, the present species, and Lissochilus xqualis, 
are to be retained in the genus, that character disappears altogether, 
and it might be thought expedient to reunite Lissochilus with Eulophia, 
were it not for the great authority of Lindley in these matters, who in 
his latest works retains them as distinct. Among seven or eight species 
hitherto described, the greater number are found in the hills of the 
south-eastern districts of the Cape Colony, from Uitenhage east- 
ward; one has been gathered at Boney in tropical Africa, and the 
Lissochilus Arabicus was found by Forskol in the mountains of Hadie, 
on the Arabian side of the Red Sea. This, the Orchis flava of Forskol, 
is said by him to be known under the name of Djissib by the Arabs, 
who assert that the juice, applied to the prick of a thorn, will expel it 
from the wound; probably one of the imaginary properties so fre- 
quently attributed to plants by country people. It was gathered by 
Forskol on Mount Barah, near the town of Mokaja; the latter name 
being probably on Forskol’s label with the Arabian name of the plant, 
has occasioned a rather ludicrous mistake, in supposing that he meant 
the mosque of Djygab as the station where he found it. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. The Liewchilas 
parviflorus was received from the province of Uitenhage, near Algoa 
Bay, by Messrs. Loddiges, and first flowered in their stovesin Decem- _. 
ber, 1837. Our drawing was made there in the following winter. It. 
requires the usual treatment of this class of ae 
ERIVATION OF THE NaM 
D 
Lissocnitus, from dsooog smooth, and xéidog a 1p ParvIFLoRnvs, small- 
flowered. 
SYNONYME. 
LissOcHILUS PARVIFLORUS, Lindley: cong —_ Species of Orchidaceous 
Plants, p. 191. 
