MR. EYLES’S RHODESIAN PLANTS 58 
hitherto been known only from the specimens collected by Wel- 
witsch, who describes it as commonly occurring in slowly flowing 
streams and clear pools near Lopolo and Mumpulla. 
i i nov. Planta glabra e rhizomate crasso 
b : 
trinervibus, quam pedicelli brevioribus; floribus mediocribus, 
luteis; sepalo dorsali anguste obovato, 7-nervi, apice rotundo, sep. 
lateralibus spathulatis, obtusis, 7-nervibus, dorsali 4-longioribus; 
petalis ovato-ellipticis, obtusis, multinervibus, sep. lateralibus vix 
brevioribus; labello pandurato, obtuso, basi lato in saceum obtusum 
terminante, vix calcarato, margine superne crispato, precipue in 
lobo apicali qui labelli totius circa tertiam partem squat, disco cum 
carinis tribus parallelis instructo; fructu ellipsoideo, basi et apice 
tenuato. 
bearing a tuft of leaves and a lateral scape. The stout leafy shoot 
bears at the base a rather long (about 10 cm.) broad abruptly acute 
membranous sheath, succeeded by a with a short blade, the 
m. g. ‘5 em. long. 
Flowers about 3 cm. long. Dorsal sepal 1:2 cm. long, and half 
as broad; lateral sepals 1:6 em. long, *5 cm. broad in the upper 
part tals 1- long by nearly 1 em. broad. Extreme length 
road. 
Hab. Matopo Hills, 5000 ft. Granite country, Feb. 1903. 
No. 150. 
@ species is most nearly allied to L. Wilsont Rolfe, from 
Usongora, British East Africa; the flowers are very much alike in 
the two species; but those of L. Wilsoni are white and pink in 
colour, and the distal portion of the lip has a villous surface. 
BENARIA MALACOPHYLLA Reichenb. f. ‘In rain-forest, perpetual 
moisture,” Victoria Falls. No. 92. The new locality for this spe- 
cies is of interest, as it serves to some extent to. connect its centre 
of distribution in extra-tropical South-east Africa with the Nile-land 
locality—near a spring at Guida, in Eritrea, at 2900-8400 ft., where 
it was subsequently found by Schweinfurth. 
Another example of the affinity between the various South 
Tropical African mountain floras is supplied by a Vellozia (No. 25), 
o from the granite coun of the Matopo Hil if 
kloofs, at 5000 ft. Mr. Eyles’s plant seems identical with the one 
