Disa) III. ORCHIDES, 19 
opening of the flower, the very long spike appears yellow in the lower 
half passing into a deeper rose-colour towards the apex. The habit is 
almost that of <Aceras anthropophora. Rather rare in lofty boggy 
places above 5000 ft. at Morro de Lopollo. In fl. Feb. 1860. No. 714. 
17. BRACHYCORYTHIS Lindl.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. p. 632. 
1. B. pubescens Harv. Thes. Capens. i. p. 35 (1859) ; Rehb. f. 
in Flora 1867, p. 98; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 115. 
Punco AnponGo.—A herb 13 ft. high, with the habit of Epipactis ; 
leaves membranous, rather stiff with rather obscurely green thinly 
puberulous raised veins. Perianth white and flesh-coloured, lip rose- 
coloured. Terrestrial ; very rare in the rocky rather damp thickets 
of Barrancos de Catete on the presidium. In fl. Jan. 1857. No. 693. 
2. B. Welwitschii Rchb. f.,/.c.,p.99; Durand & Schinz, /.c.,p.115. 
Huitua.—A terrestrial herb 1 to 14 ft. high, strict, bright green, 
tubers cylindrical, thick, fascicled, simple or lobed ; flowers white, lip 
dull red; leaves long-acuminate with raised veins. Rather damp 
meadows Sobato de Humpata. In fl. Dec. 1859. No. 707. 
18. DISPERIS Sw. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 633. 
1. D. Reichenbachiana Welw. ex Rchb. f. in Flora 1865, p. 180 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 120. 
Punco ANDONGO.—Terrestrial ; plentiful but in one place only, on 
fallen decaying tree-trunks, Barrancos de Catete, flowers very rarely. 
A few specimens in fl. and several without fl. Jan. 1857. No. 694. 
Orchidea indet. 
Buds of an orchid with lingulate-spathulate very stiff leathery, 
emarginate, wavy-margined leaves. On the tree called “ Mun- 
guenga ia muxito” (Urticaces) at the great cataract of the river 
Cuango. Oct. 1855, Cox. Carp. 997. 
This may be an Angracum, but the material consists only of two 
small dried-up fragments quite beyond determination. 
IV. SCITAMINEA. 
Trise 1. ZINGIBEREL. 
1, KAEMPFERIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Pl. iii. p. 641. 
1. K, ethiopica Benth. ex Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 131. 
Var. angustifolia Ridl.,/.c.; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. 
v. p. 124. 
Punco ANDonco.—A subglaucous herb, with tuberous root, tubers 
slender with a pleasant Amomum-like aroma. Leaves channelled, 
curved, subfleshy. Flower a deep rose-purple, as in Orchis papilionacea 
var. rubra Jacq., ultimately becoming blue on drying. Very plentiful 
in damp meadows near the right bank of the Cuanza from Sansamanda 
as far as Quisonde, probably flowering in May and June. A single 
specimen with one flower near Condo, March 1857. No. 683. Grown 
in garden at Loanda where it bore leaves but no flowers ; probably 
because the air at Loanda is too dry. 
