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Angraecum (Species of this genus number)

The species of this genus number about forty, and are nearly all natives of tropical or South Africa and the Mascarene Islands. To those described on p. 79, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. apiculatum (apiculate). fl. white, in pendulous racemes of about a dozen; spur slender, pointed, about 2in. long. l. distichous, obovate-lanceolate, obliquely acuminate, striated, deep green. Sierra Leone, 1844. A dwarf species, allied to A. bilobum. (B.M. 4159.) A. a. Dormanianum (Dorman's). A small-flowered variety, having vermilion-flaked ovaries, and vermilion tips to the sepals. 1885. A. articulatum (jointed). fl. creamy-white, racemose, polymorphous, the filiform spur as long, or sometimes three times as long, as the ovary; peduncles stout. l. cuneate-oblong, unequally bilobed, about 6in. long. Madagascar. A dwarf species, allied to A. bilobum.

A. avicularium. fl. snow-white; sepals and petals lanceolate, cuspidate; lip narrow at the base, oblong, cuspidate; spur filiform, 4in. to 5in. long; peduncle more than 9in. high, bearing fifteen flowers. l. short and broad, cuneate-oblong-elliptic, bilobed at the point, nearly 4in. long. Probably a native of tropical Africa, 1887.

A. bilobum Kirkii (Sir John Kirk's). fl. pure white, having slender, pale brown spurs 2 1/2in. to 3in. long; racemes dropping. l. narrower than in the type, ending in two divergent lobes. Zanzibar, 1882. (W.O.A. iv. 162.) A. calligerum (callus-bearing). fl. very stiff in texture; sepals ligulate, acute, with a strong, semi-oblong callus on the keel at the very base; petals cuneate-oblong, acute; lip's plate rather ligulate, pandurate, acute, with a long, filiform, acute spur, exceeding the stalked ovary six to seven lines. l. slightly glaucous, ligulate, bilobed. 1887.

A. crenatum (crenate). fl. resembling those of A. Chailluanum in colour and shape, but much smaller (as is also the habit of growth). June and July. West