Tas. 7442. 
ANGRAICUM Korscnyt. 
Native of Hast Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEZ.—Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Aneracum, Borg. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 583.) 
AnGRzEcUM (Euangrecum) Kotschyi; caule brevi, foliis amplis obovatis ob- 
tusis rubro-punctatis, scapo brevi robusto, racemi penduli  rachi 
elongato laxifloro brunneo, bracteis brevibus triangularibus acutis, pedi- 
cellis 13-pollicaribus decurvis, floribus 2} poll. diam. albis, sepalis 
petalisque patenti-reflexis oblanceolatis acuminatis subtortis apiculatis, 
apiculis brunneis, labello spathulato explanato cuspidato ima basi 
3-costato, calcari longissimo gracili flexuoso v. torto pallide fusco apice 
anguste fusiformi, columna brevi crassa straminea, rostello gracili 
porrecto ascendente, anthera hemispherica, polliniis oblongis stipiti 
angusto sessilibus, glandula oblonga majuscula. 
A. Kotschyi, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. ii. p. 456 and p. 693, fig. 
131. G. Schneider in Orchidoph. 1883, Ic. p. 797. Warner & Williams, 
Orchid. Album. t. 179. Veitch Man. Orchid. pt. vii. p. 132, cum Ic., 
Wien Illustr. Gartenz. 1891, Ic. p. 309. 
A. Grantii, Batem. mss. 
As the exploration of tropical Africa advances, acces- 
sions may be expected to the genus Angraecum, which will 
probably prove to be the largest of epiphytic Orchids in the 
dark continent and in Madagascar. Unfortunately for 
Orchid growers, its flowers appear to be invariably white, 
or if tinged with colour, green only. Ido not remember 
any other genus of epiphytic Orchids containing a con- 
siderable number of species, and many of these large- 
flowered, in which there is this such all but total absence 
of colour. 
Furthermore, judging from the importation of Orchids, 
whether from the east or western coast, or the interior, 
and from the accountsof many intelligent travellers, tropical 
Africa is not only deficient in genera and species of epiphy- 
tic Orchids, as compared with tropical Asia and America, 
but such as have been found are in no respect the repre- 
sentatives of Dendrobium and Catleya, or of such bizarre 
forms as Catasetum and Stanhopea. On the other hand, 
some of the terrestrial tropical African genera, as Phajus 
and Lissochilus, afford species of remarkable beauty and 
variety of colour. 
Novemser Ist, 1895. 
