Angrecum Kotschyi is anative of Hastern tropical Africa, 
where it appears to have avery wide range of distribution. 
It was discovered by Theod. Kotschy (after whom it 1s 
named) when travelling with Russeger in 1838, growing 
on Capparidee, but the exact locality isnot known. It was 
next met with by C. J. Meller in 1861, in the valley of the Shire 
river, not far from its junction with the Zambesi. In 1862 
the great explorer Captain Grant found it in the Upper Nile, 
at Gondokoro; and Hildebrandt collected it, in 1876, on the 
seashore in Zanzibar, whence plants were sent through 
Mr. H. Waller to Messrs. Veitch by Sir John Kirk. These 
flowered for the first time at Chelsea in 1880. Lastly, 
plants were sent to Kew from the Kilimandjaro district by 
Consul C. 8. Smith, when acting as British Commissioner 
for the delimitation of the Anglo-German Boundary 
1892, which flowered in the Tropical House of the Royal 
Gardens in October of this year. The noble raceme here 
figured was kindly forwarded by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bt.; 
the leaves are from the Kew plant. 
Descr.—Stem short; roots very thick, brown. Leaves 
three to four inches long, obovate, obtuse, pale yellowish 
green speckled with red-brown, margins waved. Scape 
short, with the pendulous raceme a foot to a foot anda 
half long, as thick as a goose-quill, red-brown, decurved. 
fiaceme distantly many-fld.; bracts small, triangular; 
dark brown; pedicels with the ovary one and a half to 
two inches, flexuous, brown. Jlowers white, two and a 
half inches broad across the petals, white with a very 
faint tinge of pink at the bases of the perianth segments. 
Sepals and petals spathulately oblanceolate, apiculate, eX _ 
treme tips brown, spreading and reflexed, more or less 
waved. Lip broadly spathulate, with three short ridges 
at the very base ; limb nearly orbicular, cuspidately acum! 
nate ; spur attaining a foot in length, very slender, flexuous, 
thickened and pale brown, from one and a half to two 
inches of the apex. , Column short, stout; rostellum long; 
subulate, ascending. Anther hemispheric. Poilinia oblong; 
strap slender, dilated upwards, as long as the pollinia 5 
gland oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2, clinandrinm and anther; 3, anther; 4 and 
®, pollinia with strap and gland :—A/I enlarged. 
