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ANGRAICUM $ mopestu™. 
Native of Madagascar. 
Nat. Ord. OxncHIDEx.—Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Anerxcum, Thou.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 583.) 
AnGREcUM modestum; caule brevi, foliis 4-5-pollicaribus elliptico- v. lineari- 
oblongis subacutis, racemo pendulo 6-10-pollicari, pedunculo 3-6-pollicari 
modice robusto vaginis brevibus crebris appressis cum rachi pedicellisque polli- 
caribus pallide brunneis, bracteis brevissimis, floribus candidis 1-1}-poll. diam., 
sepalis petalisque consimilibus patenti-recurvis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, 
labello petalis paullo longiore et latiore recurvo, calcare gracillimo pedicello 
duplo longiore, columna brevi obscure pilosa, polliniarum stipite solitario 
gracili glandula squamiformi 2-loba. 
The nearest ally of this is no doubt the A. apiculatum 
(Plate 4159) of Sierra Leone, which differs in the acuminate 
petals and sepals tipped with pink, the green rachis and 
peduncle of the raceme, and the clavate stipes of the pollen- 
masses ; there is also a tendency in the leaves of A. apicu- 
latum to become two-lobed, of which I see no traces in this. 
A, bilobum, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. vol. xxvii. t. 35), is another 
closely allied plant, a native of Cape Coast Castle, in 
Western Tropical Africa; it differs in the strongly veined 
two-lobed leaves, and acuminate sepals and petals; it 1s 
possibly the same as A. apiculatum. In the hairy column, 
a character probably overlooked in other species, 1t resembles 
A, descendens, Reichb. f. (in Gard. Chron, 1882, p. 558). 
Angraecum modestum is a native of Madagascar, and the 
plant here figured was presented to the Royal Gardens by 
the Dowager Lady Ashburton; it flowered in April of the 
present year. : : 
Descr. Stem very short. Leaves distichous, three to six 
inches long by one to one and a half inches broad, elliptic- 
or linear-oblong, acute, tip entire, pale bright-green, 
coriaceous, nerveless. Raceme pendulous, longer than the 
leaves, many-flowered ; peduncle three to six inches long, 
JUNE Ist, 1883. 
