Tab. 4295 . 
ANGRtECUM funale. 
Cord-like Angrcecum. 
Nat. Ord. ORCHiDEiE.—G ynandria Monandria. 
Gen. Char. Perianthkim patens. Sepala et petala subeequalia, libera. La- 
bellum sessile, cum basi columnse continuum, carnosum, indivisum, petalis multo 
latius; calcare recto comuto, ssepius subcylindraceo, perianthio multo longiore, 
raro obconico Columna nana subteres, raro elongata, semiteres, Anthera 3- 
locidaris, truncata. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia, caudicula brevi angnista, glandula 
triangulari.—Epipbytse caulescentes. Folia coriacea ligulata, apice obliqua. Flores 
solitarii v. racemosi, aJhi nunc eitrini v. herbacei. Lindl. 
Angr^ecum funale subacaxile aphyllum, radicibus copiosis elongatis crassis 
cylindraceis hie iUic articulatis, pedunculis subbifloris, sepalis petahsque 
oblongo-lanceolatis reflexis, labeUo tiilobo, lobis lateralibus pams erects, 
intermedio maximo lato obcordato-bifido, calcare filiform! perianthio bis 
longiore. 
ANGRiEcuM funale. Lhdl. in Gard. Citron. 
CEceoclades funalis. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 237. 
Epidendrum funale. Sw. Prodr. p. 126. 
Limodorum funale. Sw. PI. Ind. Occ. v. 3. p. 1531. Willd. Sp. PI. v. ^.p. 137. 
One of the rarest and least known of the West Indian Orchi- 
deous plants, which though referred by Lindley in the ‘ Genera 
et Species Orchid.’, to (Eceoclades, that excellent botanist has 
since acknowledged it (in a recent number of the ‘ Gardeners 
Chronicle’) to be a true species of Angrrscum. We adopt 
accordingly the latter name, and find that the characte^ qmte 
agree with those which may be considered to belong to the type 
of the genus, A. eburneum. Our plant, together with A. fliforme, 
Lindl. (of Hispaniola), are the only species yet detected m the 
New World, and both are aphyllous, the rest being all natives 
of tropical Eastern Africa and adjacent isles (Madagascar, Bourbon 
and Mauritius). A. funale grows on the trunks of trees, iii the 
mountains of Jamaica, and was first detected by Swartz, ^d wel 
described by him : recently it has been sent to the Royal Gardens 
of Kew by our collector, Mr. Purdie. Attached to a bloc o 
wood, and freely supplied with moisture, it produced its highly 
