Tab. 7204 

 ANGR^CQM fastuosum. 



Native of Madagascar. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide.e. — Tribe VandejE. 

 Genus Angk.ecum, Thou.; (Bentk. & HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 583.) 



An grmcvu fastuosum ; acaule, foliis confertia oblongis apice rotundatis v. 

 emarginatis crasse coriaceis supra luride virescentibus rubro marginatis 

 subtus pallidioribus medio costatis, peduaculo foliis breviore crasso 

 cylindraceo obtuso paucifloro, bracteis caducis, floribus 1£ poll, diam., 

 sepalo dorsali oblongo-lanceolato obtuso, lateralibus pauflo majoribus', 

 petalis ovato-lanceolatis sepalis lateralibus sequilongis, labello oblongo 

 apice 2-dentato medio carina lata convexa percurso, calcare filiformi 

 flavido labelloplusduplo longiore, columna minuta latiuscula bicamerata, 

 anthera mitriiormi, polliniis minutis didymis, caudiculis filiformibus 

 rostello iucumbentibus, glaudulis tenuiter cylindraceis caudiculis cras- 

 sioribus et fereduplo longioribus calcare absconditis. 



A. fastuosum, Reichb.f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. ii. p. 748, 844: 1885, vol i 

 p. 533, fig. 96. 



A very singular species, quite unlike any other hitherto 

 described, remarkable, according to Reichenbach, for the 

 rugged surface of the leaves and the variable form of sepal 

 and lip. In his first account of the plant, in the Gardener's 

 Chronicle for 1881, vol. ii. p. 748, Reichenbach (from speci- 

 mens imported by Leon Hublot) describes it as having leaves 

 bilobed and as rugose on the upper surface as the bulb 

 of Eriopsis rutidobulbon, slender filiform sepals and petals 

 two to three inches long, and a lip narrower than these, 

 characters which it is impossible to conceive being appli- 

 cable to any form of the plant here figured. In a subsequent 

 notice, at p. 844 of the same volume, he speaks of a plant 

 of A. fastuosum obtained from Sir Trevor Laurence as 

 equal to his type in all details, but having an obovate 

 rounded lip, instead of a narrow acute one, and suggests 

 either that M. Hublot's plant was a pelorioid form, or that 

 there are two species closely alike. There is no modifica- 

 tion of his description of the rugose leaves or of the slender 

 filiform petals two to three inches long, and were it not 

 for the figure of the plant, from a specimen in Sir T. 

 Laurence's collection, ~ given by Dr. Masters in the 



NOVEMBEB 1ST, 1891. 



