Tas. 6723, 
AN GRACUM ScorrraNumM. 
Native of the Comoro Islands, 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEm.—Tribe VanDEx. 
Genus Ancrxcum, Thouars; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 583.) 
Anerzcum (Euangrecum) Scottianum ; caulibus teretibus elongatis radicantibus, 
foliis elongatis subdistichis recurvis semi-cylindricis subacutis facie sulcatis, 
pedunculo 1-2-floro, floribus albis, sepalis petalisque consimilibus linearibus 
acutis, labello magno quadrato latiore quam longo antice retuso medio abrupte 
mucronato basi utrinque sulco semi-lunari notato dorso basi in calcar 4-poll. 
flexuosum flavo-brunneum producto, columna brevissima, polliniorum stipite 
oblongo-quadrato integro marginibus incurvis. 
A. Scottianum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1878, vol. x. part 2, p. 557, et 1881, 
vol. xiv, part 2, p. 136, £. 30; Fl. Mag. WV. 8S. t. 421. 
A remarkable species, allied to A. eburneum in flower, 
but very different in foliage, which, though resembling that 
of species of several genera of Orchidea, is quite unlike that 
of any other Angraecum. It is one of the many novelties 
for which Horticulturists are indebted to Sir John Kirk, 
who procured it from Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands, 
in 1878, and sent a sketch of the flower to Kew from a 
plant which flowered in his garden at Zanzibar. The flowers 
probably vary a good deal in colour, for Sir John, in his 
notes, describes the sepals as pale green, and the lip as 
having two yellow spots at its base. 
The species was named after Mr. R. Scott, of Cleveland, 
Walthamstow, with whom the plant flowered in 1879. Our 
drawing was made from specimens sent to the Royal 
- Gardens by Sir John Kirk, which flowered at Kew in July, 
1880. 
Drsor. Stem one to two feet long, a fourth to a third of 
an inch in diameter, cylindric, terete, rigid, dark green, 
clothed with brown sheaths below, scandent by roots at 
the internodes. Leaves three to four inches long, sub- 
distichous, spreading and recurved, shortly sheathing at 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1883. 
