6 III. ORCHIDE. [Lissochilus 
locality in Angola, on clay soil among Euphorbiacez, near Cacuaco, 
Barra do Bengo. Beginning of Jan. 1854. No. 652. 
4, L. aurantiacus Rchb. f. in Flora 1865, p. 187; Durand & 
Schinz, J.c., p. 27; Rolfe, dc., p. 96. 
Punco ANpoNGO.—Tubercles succulent, thick, subtriangular, de- 
pressed, two or several, moniliform united by a narrow isthmus, 
generally sending out first a flowering scape, then a cluster of leaves. 
‘Leaves glaucous-green, many times shorter than the scape ; scape erect, 
purplish, with few scales. Flowers nodding-pendulous ; sepals copper- 
coloured ; petals much larger ovate-orbicular, a deep bright yellow 
above, rose-coloured beneath, streaked with longitudinal purple veins ; 
Jabellum yellow-red. On sunny heights and shortly-grassed pasture 
slopes among gneiss rocks of the presidium and near Cazella. In fl. 
Oct., Nov., Dec. 1856, in fr. Jan. 1857. No. 691. 
5. L. Friderici Rchb. f. in Flora 1867, p. 113; Durand & Schinz, 
dc, p. 28; Rolfe, U.c., p. 88. 
Ampaca.—2 ft. high ; flowers yellow, nodding, bi-coloured ; leaves 
and root not seen. On thicket-grown plains near Zamba, in places 
once cultivated now abandoned. Oct. 1856. No. 676. 
6. L, angolensis Rchb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 64 (1878) ; 
Durand & Schinz, /.c., p. 27; Rolfe, /c., p. 76. 
Cymbidium angolense Rchb. f. in Flora 1865, p. 188. 
Hvitta.—Rhizome long, horizontal, creeping, succulent, as_ thick 
as a finger, sparsely fibrous, a dull cinnamon colour, producing at 
intervals of 10 or 12 in., leaf and scape-bearing nodes. Leaves during 
flowering period little developed, growing in an erect tuft close to 
the scape, and half its length or shorter, rigidulous ; scape 2 to 25 ft. 
erect, striate-angular, dull purple, ending in a raceme, with distant 
scales below and in the middle. Bracts dull purple, ovary elongate- 
-clavate, furrowed, moderately twisted ; sepals dull purple, petals a 
little wider, and like the column greenish-yellow ; lip deflexed, very 
obtusely saccate, scarcely lobed, longitudinally streaked with purple, 
crispulately wavy in fruit, livid-purplish. Rather rare in damp sunny 
places by streams near Quibbe and N-lala. In fl. beginning of Nov. 
1859. No. 734. 
7. L.giganteus Welw. ex Rchb.f. in Flora 1865, p. 187 ; Durand 
& Schinz, l.c., p. 28; Rolfe, ic, p. 87. 
GoLtunco ALTo.—Gigantic, tubers palmate compressed, copper- 
coloured, spongy, leaves radical, 4 to 5 ft., erect, palmlike; scape 
6 to 8 ft. high, erect, almost an inch thick at the base ; spike in the 
larger specimens 1} ft. long, and rose-purple ; flowers very large. 
Boggy places by streams, Sobato de Quilombo and on the right of the 
Ambaca road near Camilungo; in boggy and marshy places near 
Quilombo-Quiacatubia, at about 2200 ft. elevation ; in boggy places 
on the banks of the Cuango and elsewhere near Camilungo, growing 
along with Typha angustifolia and similar plants. In fl. beginning of 
Oct. 1856. Uppermost part of a stalk 2°7 metres high, with 35 flowers. 
Varzea do Indrio ; 30 April, 1856. No. 673. Scape 8 to 11 ft. high. 
Cou. Carp. 996. 
8, L. Welwitschii Rchb. f., Zc, p. 188; Durand & Schinz, le., 
p. 31; Rolfe, Zc, p. 87. 
Huiiia.—A gigantic herb, 4 to 8 ft., with a spongy tuberous root, 
