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7 ANGRÁCUM micranthum. 
Small-flowered Angrecum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcHınEr $ Vaxpzz, Lindl. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 262.) 
ANGRAECUM.—Supra, vol. 18. fol. 1522. 
A. micranthum ; caule brevi, foliis oblongis trinerviis apice obliquis, spicis se- 
cundis multifloris horizontalibus congestis foliis brevioribus, sepalis petalisque 
subzqualibus angusté ovatis apice patulis, labello conformi basi bilobo biden- 
tato medio pubescente, calcare obtuso incurvo postico. 
Caulis 2-pollicaris. Folia 13-p. longa, 13-p. lata, plana, crassa. Flores 
minuti, albi. 
A very small and unattractive species, lately introduced 
by Messrs. Loddiges from Sierra Leone. It is quite distinct 
from any previously described, but retains the peculiar 
characters of the genus without deviation. It flowered in 
February. 
It is curious that Angrecum should be so exclusively an 
African genus, that no certain species has yet been found 
beyond its continent or immediately dependent islands, 
although it evidently stretches across the whole of the 
tropical part of Africa itself. In addition to this from Sierra 
Leone, three or four other species are now in our gardens 
from the same place, but all of them equally inconspicuous 
with the present. Of these A. clandestinum, teretifolium and 
distichum have already flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. Fig. 
1. represents a lip with the spur attached ; 2. an entire 
flower; and 3, a pair of pollen masses with their gland. 
* See folio 1522. 
