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109. ANGRACUM armeniacum ; caulescens, foliis distichis canaliculatis 
apice obliqué et acuté bidentatis, spicis lateralibus horizontalibus secundis, 
sepalis ovatis, petalis linearibus, labelli 3-lobi laciniis lateralibus acuminatis 
intermediá triangulari longioribus, calcare pendulo clavato basi compresso 
calyce duplo longiore. 
This very singular plant is a native of Sierra Leone, 
whence it has been obtained by Messrs. Loddiges. Its 
flowers are of a uniform apricot-colour, small, secund, and 
closely arranged in a horizontal lateral spike. The habit is 
that of a Saccolabium. It is very distinct from all that have 
before been seen, but has some affinity with Angrecum 
mystacinum. The spur is twice as long as the calyx, com- 
pressed at the base, and then inflated a little so as to appear 
clavate. 
110. MALACHADENIA (Vandez). 
Flos resupinatus. Sepala lateralia connata, apice reflexa libera, galeam for- 
mantia; dorsale cordatum acuminatum. Petala minima, squameformia, 
rotundata, Labellum carnosum, margine revolutum, basi mucronatum, cum 
pede elongato columnse sepalis lateralibus galeatis adnate articulatum. 
Columna antice bicirrhosa, basi longé productá, stigmate lineari oblongo. 
-Anthera 2-locularis, decidua. Pollinia 2, ceracea, sessilia, glandulá molli, 
cubicá, nudá. Herba repens, pseudobulbis monophyllis, scapo radicali, 
floribus carnosis galeatis. 
MALACHENIA clavata. 
Rhizoma repens. Pseudobulbi subglobosi, monopbylli. Folia angusté 
ovalia, carnosa. Scapus radicalis, foliis ter longior, erectus, teres, apice cla- 
vatus, subbiflorus; axi spice articulata: internodiis clavatis. Spica termi- 
nalis, pauciflora. Bracteze membranacez, ferruginez, reflexze. Ovarium 
brevissimum. Flores obscuré virides purpureo maculati. Sepala lateralia 
acuminata, apice revoluta, basi obscuré semisagittata; supremum subcorda- 
tum: sinu lato inter sepala. Petala squamiformia, rotundata, obsoleta. 
Glandula polliniorum mollis, subcubica, cinnamomea, cui pollinia leviter 
annectantur. 
This very singular plant was given to Mr. Bateman by 
Mr. Wm. Miner of Lambeth, who received it from Rio in 
1836. It is a remarkable genus, resembling Megaclinium 
in some respects, but belonging in reality to Vandew, among 
which it is marked by the nearly total absence of petals, 
the cirrhate column, and the soft fleshy cinnamon-coloured 
gland, to which a pair of reniform pollen-masses are slightly 
attached. In this division of Orchidacee it is uncertain 
. Where it must stand; probably other genera stil undis- 
covered will connect it with the system better than can at 
present be done. | 
I. September, 1839. k 
