collected by Barter at the Brass River, which is identical 
in habit, but the leaves are larger, and the flowers have 
fallen, though apparently it represents the same species. 
Lindley remarked that it belonged to the same set as 
Angraecum gladifolium, Thouars, and as the pollen was 
unknown when the Orchids were prepared for the Flora 
of Tropical Africa the species. was referred to Mystaci- 
dium, a position which now proves untenable. It is quite 
a distinct and isolated species, though perhaps most allied - 
to Angraecum Hichlerianum, Krinzl. (Bot. Mag. t. 7813), 
which it closely resembles in habit, though the details of 
the flower are very different. 
Mr. Dawe found the plant growing in a hot, moist, and 
shady situation, and under these conditions it has sue- 
ceeded well in cultivation. - 
Deser.—A climbing epiphyte, 1-2 ft. high, with aeria 
roots. Leaves distichous, oblong, unequally bilobed, 
coriaceous, 4-5 in. long, an inch or more broad ; sheaths 
tubular, clasping the stem, striate, 1-1} in. long. 
Pedunelegs axillary, 24-8 in. long, 1-flowered. Bracts ovate- 
oblong acute, about 4 in. long. lowers large, pale 
yellow, except the lip, which is white with a green throat. 
Sepals and petals linear, acuminate, 2}-3 in. long; the 
petals and dorsal sepal refiexed, the lateral sepals dita - 
verging. Lip large, infundibular; limb broadly elliptical- 
ovate, apiculate, 24-3 in. long, about 2 in. broad; throat — 
infundibular, 2-21 in. long, then sharply reflexed into a 
slender somewhat curved spur, 34-43 in. long. Column 
very broad, about 4 in. long, with rounded wings; pollinia 
: attached to a short, broad, and flat stipes.—R. A. 
OLFE. 
Fig. 1, column; 2, anther-cap; 3 and 4, pollinarium, seen from front and 
back :—all enlarged. 
