Tas. 7061. 
ANGRAICUM Germinvanum. 
Native of Madagascar. 
Nat. Ord. OrcutpEa.—Tribe VANDE. 
Genus Ancracum, Thouars; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl, vol. iii. p. 583.) 
Ancracum (Macroura) Germinyanum; caule robusto elongato scandente 
folioso, foliis distichis oblongis apice 2-lobis basi cordato-semiamplexi- 
caulibus, floribus amplis axillaribus solitariis, pedunculo gracili folio 
multo breviore, sepalis 2-pollicaribus filiformibus decurvis, petalis consimi- 
libus sed brevioribus et angustioribus, labello quadrato angulis obtusis 
apice in caudam filiformem repente angustato, columna brevissima. 
A. Germinyanum, Hort. Sanders. 
Mr. Sanders of St. Albans, the introducer of this beautiful 
Orchid, has been so good as to send me the following 
information regarding it. Angrecum Germinyanum was 
named after Count Adrien de Germiny, Gonville, France, 
an ardent lover of Orchids. It was discovered in 1886 in 
the interior of Madagascar, in the same forests with 
Phajus tuberculosus and Humbloti, by Messrs. Sanders’ 
collector, Leon Humblot. The fact of its coming from a 
hitherto unexplored part of Madagascar abounding in 
novelties, together with Mr. Humblot’s assurance that 
it was new and different from any other Angraecum that 
he had seen, appeared to warrant the giving a specific 
name to the plant, though then in a flowerless state. Mr. 
Sanders further informs me that there were about twenty 
plants of it imported, of which nearly all must have 
perished, as he had heard nothing of any of them. 
Tt is, therefore, a peculiar satisfaction to the authorities 
of Kew that the plant of this fine species which Mr. 
Sanders liberally presented to Kew in 1886 should have 
flourished in that establishment. It flowered in May of 
last year, and again in the spring of this year. As may 
be supposed from its native habitat, it was grown in a 
very moist tropical house, fastened to a soft piece of fern- 
stem. 
JUNE Ist, 1889. 
