Tab. 4145 

 ANGILECUM distichum. 



Two-rowed Angrcecum. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 



ANGRCECUM. Pet. Th. Perianthium patens. Sepala et petala sub- 

 sequalia, libera. Labellum sessile, cum basi columnse continuum, carnosura, 

 indivisum, petalis multo latius; calcare recto cornuto, saepius subcylindraceo, 

 perianthio multo longiore, raro obconico. Columna nana subteres, raro 

 elongata semiteres. Anthera 2-locularis, truncata. Pollinia 2, biparti- 

 bilia, caudicula brevi angusta, glandula, triangulari. — Epiphytae caulescentes. 

 Folia coriacea, ligulata, apice obliqua. Flores solitarh v. racemosi, albi, 

 nunc citrini, v. herbacei. Lindl. 



Angrcecum distichum; caule imbricato, foliis distichis compressis recurvis 

 obtusis supra canaliculars, floribus solitariis axillaribus, pedunculis 

 foliis subaequalibus, sepalis ovatis petalisque angustioribus secundis 

 obtusis, labello postico oblongo concavo apice tridentato calcari tereti 

 horizontali pedunculo breviore. Lindl. 



Angrcecum distichum. Lindl. Bot. Peg. t 1781. 



The Genus Angrcecum is peculiar to the Old World, if we 

 except the A.filiforme, a native of Hispaniola, but which will 

 probably prove to belong to a different Genus. It was founded 

 by Du Petit Thouars, and the name derived from a barbarous 

 word " Angwrek" of the Malays. Minute as are the flowers 

 of the present species, they are identical in structure with those 

 of the fine A. eburneum of Thouars. We are indebted to Mr. 

 Loddiges, who received the plant from Sierra Leone, for the 

 possession of the present species in the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 of Kew, where it flowered in October, 1843. 



Descr. Stems three to five inches long, tufted, simple or 

 branched, clothed throughout their whole length with fleshy, 

 oblong-falcate, obtuse, distichous leaves, having a groove at 

 the thickened upper edge, which receives the sharp edge of the 

 one above it. From the axils of these leaves arise the small, 

 white, inconspicuous flowers. Each has a bractea at its base. 

 Sepals and petals spreading, but secund, the former oblong- 



