Tar. 8153. 
ANGRAECUM tvronpieunarn. 
as Tropical Africa. 
Orcuipacear. Tribe VANDEAE, 
Ancrarcum, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 583. 
Angraecum infundibulare, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. vi. p. 136; 
Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxvi. pp. 82, 130, cum suppl. tab.; Orch. Rev. 
1905, p. 331; species distinctissima, habitu A. Fichleriano, Krinzl., 
a sed labello amplissimo fauce infundibulari et calcare longissimo 
' differt. 
Herba epiphytica, scandens. Caules validi, 30-60 cm. longi, radicantes. 
Folia disticha, oblonga, inaequaliter biloba, coriacea, 10-12 cm. longa; 
circa 3 cm. lata; vaginae amplexicaules, striatae, 3-4 cm. longae. 
Peduncult axillares, 6-7 cm. longi, uniflori. Bracteae ovato-oblongae, 
acutae, circa 8 mm. longae. Flores magni, speciosi, pallide flavi; labellum 
albidum, fauce viride. Sepala et petala linearia, acuminata, 6-7 cm. 
longa; petala et sepalum posticum reflexa; sepala lateralia divergentia. 
Labellum magnum, infundibulare; limbus late elliptico-ovatus, apiculatus, 
6-7 cm. longus, circa 5 cm. latus; calear fauce infundibulari 5-6 em. 
longo dein valde reflexum, cylindricum, 9-11 em. longum. Colwmna 
latissima, circa 5 mm. longa, alis rotundatis; pollinia 2, stipiti plano 
brevi affixa.—Mystacidiwm infundibulare, Rolfe in Dyer FI. ‘trop. Africa, 
vol. vii. p. 170. 
Angraecum infundibulare, Lindl., is a very remarkable 
species, which was originally discovered in Princes Island, 
in the Bight of Biafra, West Tropical Africa, by Barter, 
about the year 1858; the collector describing it as a 
highly ornamental plant, an exception to African Or- 
chidaceae, and as having large white and fragrant flowers. 
Nothing further was known of it until 1904, but in July 
of that year a plant from the collection of the Right Hon. 
Lord Rothschild, Tring Park, received a First-class 
Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society, and 
this is said to have been collected by Major H. B. 
Rattray, on the Victoria Nyanza, Uganda, in 1902. a 
locality over a thousand miles east of the original one. 
It was also found in Uganda by Mr. M. T. Dawe, Director 
of the Scientific and Forestry Department, Uganda, who 
sent living plants to Kew in 1903, which flowered in 
November, 1906, when the accompanying drawing was 
made. ‘lhe Uganda plant has rather broader leaves than 
that from Prince’s Island, but otherwise the two are sub- 
stantially similar. There is at Kew a dried specimen 
SertrMBeR Ist, 1907. 
