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ANGRACUM gladiifolium. 
Sword-leaved Angrec. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ VANDEZ. 
ANGRAECUM. Botanical Register, vol. 18. fol. 1522. 
A, gladüfolium ; caulescens, foliis distantibus lanceolatis acutis, pedunculis 
axillaribus unifloris, floris patuli phyllis omnibus ovato-lanceolatis 
acutis, calcare gracili pendulo pedunculo subzequali. 
Orchis Mauritiana. Poir. dict. 4. 601. sec. Ach. Rich. 
Aerobion gladiifolium. Spreng. syst. 
Angreecum gladiifolium. Thouars orch. afr. t. 53. Ach. Rich. orch. maurit. p. 
69. Lindi. Genera and Species of Orchidaceous plants, no. 5. 
A native of the islands of Bourbon, Madagascar, and the 
Mauritius, where it seems to have been first met with by 
Commerson. It was afterwards collected by Du Petit Thouars 
and others, flowering in the month of February. Like the 
greater part of the genus it is a plant of little beauty. For 
the opportunity of making a drawing of it I am indebted to 
Messrs. Loddiges. ' ] 
The figures 1 and 2 represent the pollen-masses, which 
adhere each to a separate oblong gland, in which respect 
this species differs essentially from A. eburneum. It will, 
however, be found that the greater number of Angrecs possess 
two glands, either quite separate, or touching each other so 
as to form a slight adhesion. To determine the real value of 
this character requires a complete revision both of this and of 
the neighbouring genera, particularly of CEceoclades, some of 
the plants referred to which are certainly true Angrecs, as 
for example QE. funalis and Retz. 
Among the minute species of Angrec are many still 
