‘Tas. 5170. 
ANGR/ECUM EsuRNEvUM; var. virens. 
Lvory Angrecum ; greenish-flowered variety. 
Nat. Ord. Orcutrx®.—GyYNANDRIA Mono@ynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4761.) 
ANara&cum eburneum ; caule simplici elato, foliis coriaceis lucidis apice obliquis 
7-10-striatis, spicis multifloris elongatis secundis, labello orbiculari-cordato 
cuspidato basi jugo elevato cristatis, caleare sepalo supremo parallelo et di- 
midio longiore, ovario scabro. 
An@R&cuM eburneum. Thouars, Orchid. Afric. t.65. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4761 
(which see for synonyms and description). 
Var. B. virens; floribus minoribus, labello cordiformi medio virescente. Angreecum 
virens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847; under t.19, in Paxt, Flower Garden, v. 1. 
p. 25. f. 9,10. (Tas. Nosrr. 5170.) 
This plant having blossomed in the Royal Gardens at the 
same time as, and in the same stove with, Angraecum eburneum 
(see Tab. 4761), the differences to be seen are so trifling that we 
dare not venture to give it as a species. Indeed, Dr. Lindley, 
on first describing it from very imperfect materials, observes 
that “it is very like a small state of Angraecum eburneum ;” and 
“it is published chiefly to draw attention to its locality, which 
is said to be Serampore ; but whether it is really a native of the 
continent of India, or a plant received from the old Botanical 
Garden of that settlement, as is more probable, I do not know.” 
Again, in describing and figuring the 4. virens in Paxton’s 
‘Flower Garden,’ along with a very-accurate figure from Bourbon 
specimens, the chief characteristic mark is made to depend upon 
colour ; “the sepals and petals and spur are greenish, and the 
lip itself, though white, is nevertheless conspicuously tinged with 
green in the middle ;” not however to such a degree as in the 
plant which flowered with Mr. Loddiges, and which gave rise 
to the name which this plant bears. We may then safely con- 
sider it a variety and a less beautiful form of the noble Angre- 
cum eburneum, and further, that the statement of the plant being 
a native of Serampore originated in error. 
Fig. 1. Column and anther,—slightly magnified. 
_ APRIL lst, 1860. 
