2 LISSOCHILUS. 



rhomboidal with crenulate margin, light rose-purple with darker veins, 

 and with a dark purple stain at the base. Column short, much com- 

 pressed, rounded and purple above, nearly Hat and whitish below. 



Eiilophia guineensis, E. Br. in Bot. Ileg. t. 686 (1822). Bot. Mag. t. 2467. 

 Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orch. p. 181. Williams' Orck. Alb. II. t. 89 (purpurata). 

 The Garden XIX. (1881), t. 277. 



Introduced in 1821 from Sierra Leone by George Don^ collector 

 for the Horticultural Society of London^ in whose garden at Chiswick 

 it flowered in the following year. It was also sent to Messrs. Loddiges 

 in 1822 by George Hawkins, who collected it in Los, one of the 

 small islands off the coast of Sierra Leone. For materials for 

 description we are indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in whose 

 collection at Burford Lodge this orchid has long been successfully 

 cultivated, flowering usually in August and September. 



Cultural Note. — The following details of the cultural treatment of 

 Eulopliia guineensis at Burford Lodge was communicated to The Garden 

 by the late Mr. Spyers: — "The plant is potted in a mixture of peat 

 and sphagnum, but sometimes fibrous peat, charcoal and broken crocks 

 are used, the pots being half full of drainage. During the growing 

 season the plant is kept in a shady position in the East Indian house 

 with lil:)eral supplies of water. When in flower it is moved to a 

 more airy position in the intermediate house. Being deciduous it does 

 not require a large amount of water from the time when its foliage 

 chan^jes colour till the growin"- season commences again."* 



LISSOCHILUS. 



R. Br. in Bot. Eeg. t. 573 (1821). Lindl. Collect. Bot. t. 31. Benth. et. Hook. Gen. 

 Plant, in. p. 536 (1883). 



This genus is very closely allied to Eulophia, differing chiefly in 

 the petals being much larger and usually more brightly coloured 

 than the sepals ; but as this character, as Mr. Bentham remarks, 

 is observed in some of the Asiatic species of Eulophia t the two 

 genera may hereafter be merged into one. 



Lissochilus is a purely African genus, including about thirty 

 species, but of these very few are cultivated in European gardens, 

 those described in the following pages being among the most 

 noteworthy. 



Cultural Note. — Being natives of one of the hottest regions of the 

 world Lissochitus rj/f/anteus and L. Hor^fallli require tlie highest 



* The Garden, vol. XIX. (1881), p. 332. 

 t Journ. Linn. Soc. XVITI. p. 317. 



