Gardener's Chronicle for 1885 (vol. i. p. 533, fig. 9G) 

 Reichenbach's fastuosum must have been relegated to the 

 limbo of indeterminable species. With that figure ours 

 perfectly accords, except in that the leaves of the latter 

 are merely notched at the tip, and the lip is more oblong 

 obtusely toothed at the tip, and with a very broad low 

 median thickened band or ridge from the base to the tip. 

 The rugosity of the leaf occurs only after flowering, and is 

 hardly preceptible in the Kew plant. 



The most remarkable character of A. fastuosum (though 

 it may be common to other Angraoeca) is the great length 

 of the glands of the minute didymous pollinia, which are 

 cylindric, almost twice as long as, aud much thicker than, 

 the filiform caudicles, and are concealed within the spur, 

 whence no doubt they are abstracted by insects in search 

 of the honey in the spur. 



A. fastuosum was received by Messrs Sander and Co., of 

 St. Albans, and flowered in the Royal Gardens in May of 

 this year, and continued to flower till the middle of 

 September. 



I am at a loss to account for the specific name of 

 fastuosum, the plant being a very modest one, and by no 

 means suggestive of pride or scorn.— J. JD. H, 



Fig. 1, Front view of base of lip and column ; 2, side view of top of ovary 

 column and base of lip with top of spur ; 3 and 4, front and back view of 

 anther; 5, pollinia :— all greatly enlarged. 



