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ANGRACUM pellucidum. 
Transparent Angrec. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ. § VANDEZ. 
ANGRACUM. Thouars. 
A. pellucidum ; acaule, foliis distichis oblongis subundulatis recurvis apice 
obliquis basi equitantibus, racemis densis nutantibus axillaribus foliis 
brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, labello fimbriato cor- 
dato-ovato truncato, calcare brevi lanceolato porrecto, caudiculis 2 subu- 
latis, glandulá communi didymá. 
We lament to see how little justice our artists have been 
able to do to this beautiful plant, whose flowers are as deli- 
cate and transparent as if they were flakes of snow fixed by 
frost in the very act of melting. Each part of the lip is 
studded and bordered with little crystalline elevations, and 
the whole fabric of the blossom is as fragile as thin plates of 
glass. r 
It was imported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges, 
with whom it flowered in November 1842. It is number 
1572 of their catalogue. 
Fig. 1. represents the column and spur of the labellum, 
the limb of which, spread flat to shew its true form is seen 
at 2. Fig. 3. represents the pollen-masses with their straps ; 
and 4. is a single pollen-mass seen from behind where the 
strap fitted on. 
We still regret the want of leisure to effect that reforma- 
tion in the genus, the necessity of which was alluded to at 
fol. 68 of our volume for 1840. A comparison of the details 
of this plate and of those of A. gladifolium at the place just 
quoted, will shew that the genus Angrec, as it now stands, 
cannot be maintained entire, 
