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ANGRZBCUISI SESQUIPKDALK. 



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An evergreen epiphyte, of nobto Aspect, having n Ample or nearly simple rooting Mini* bearing in a two-ranked 

 manner the broadly oblong <.i ribbou-slutpcd leaves, which are pendent, a foot long, bluntly two-lobed at the 

 ape\. and i lothed with a delicate bloom, The ivorj white fragrant flowers grow fmm three to four on a pe- 

 duncle issuing from the nxiEs of the leaves, and ire verj lur^e. Win*; m* much us m vm imln -. ,i> i <% with a 

 greenish ipur of n f<n>t or more in length. The icpok and petals are spreading, the latter becoming reflexed; 

 tlu-> are nearly equal in rise, broad m the base, and drawn out into an acuminate point The lip is cordate, 

 ovate, and acuminate, both margins deeply crenato-femte nitwit the middle, while n*ar the base is an elevated 

 rounded ridge. Uw pollen mam* arc waxy, with a deep lateral furrow, and aro tcatcd on a narrow dimidiate 

 gland, 



Axoimru sesquipedalk, //« Prtit Uumar^ flfrfota ■' I'tmtu* Orthldfa rmrritffra jw f« freti Wra At*** ml** 

 d J/W V i*\tt. CM? ; frWAy, GmlmerJ Chmicte, 1867, 258, ritf motltxt; Uwfar, Itotaniwl itfdpuiiw, t. b\ 13. 



A: i:\miu a sESQUtrcOALtt, Zindffy Qmtra and SjWm of Orrftidamm* Plants* 244- 





The exigence of iliU superb epiphyte 1 , which is ,i native of Madagascar was firs! made known bj 

 11 • Aubcrt J)u Petit Thouars, some forty yean ago; but fur its introduction to this country wo arc indebted 

 to die Rev- William Ellis, hy whom it was sent to Hoddcsdon about ten years since, and in whose garden at 

 the latter place it flowered for the Jir>i time in Europe in 1S57. The specimen from which our drawing 

 was taken was grown in the collection of C* It, Warner, Esq., of Stratford This plant had two spikes of 

 it- ivory-white flowers expanded at the same lime. 



In some remarks which accompanied the account published in the * Gardeners* Chronicle/ Mr. Ellis 

 states that he did not meel with the plant in the higher and cooler regions of Madagascar, but only in tin* 

 lower and holler districts, and there by no means 90 abundant as tin* splendid An$r*tcnm mptrhum. " The 

 Jtujr<tcum tctaiii/Kufa/e" he continues, " does not grow in the moisl and thickly-wooded ports of the lower 

 districts of the island, but generally on the struggling trees along the edges of the forest, or in parts where 

 the trees are only thinly spread over the country. It seemed to grow most frequently on the driest |«*rls of 

 the bunks and branches of thinly -leaved trees, and though occasionally, yet but seldom was seen near (he 

 ground. The largest plants were found about twelve or twenty feet from the ground, and smaller ones were 

 often seen higher up, and among the smaller branches. It seemed to grow most freely where there v.. 

 plenty of lighl ami air. The leaM g were neither numerous nor large, and in its native state the plant most 

 frequently presented a starred appearance and draggling habit. In this state the flowers were abundant, 

 and deeper in creamy colour than when growing in the sltadc. . . . I once found the trunk of a tree lying 

 quite rotten on Iho ground, and Jugmcvm t&fuipedtfe growing al intervals along its entire length. The 

 roots, which had penetrated tbo decayed vegetable lib** of tiie tree, were combatively white, short, and 

 fleshy ; the leaves larger, of a darker green, and more succulent ; but there were no flowers," The plant 

 which Mr. Ellis alludes to under the name i^Angractmwpcrtmm, we believe to be the torn Jngmcttm 

 ehuruetim, ami ii ranks ncxl to our present eubjccJ in respeel to beauty. There are bnl few of the spcCH a 

 w< rth cultivating aa objects of ornament, Uieir Bowers being only fit for botanical study- 



This, however, is not the case with Ihe .till rare Jngramm *t$fniped4tfc> as our figure will show. It 

 b o beautiTul compact-growing species, with smooth icavca of a dark-green colour, and baring a fine 

 bloom on the surface, to that even when not in flower the plant is a good-looking object. The reason ol 







