Tas. 4761. 
ANGRAECUM EBURNEUM. 
Lvory Angraecum. 
Nat. Ord. Oncurpacrm.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala et petala subsequalia, libera. Label- 
‘um sessile, cum basi column continuum, carnosum, indivisum, petalis multo 
latius ; calcare recto, cornuto, seepius subcylindraceo perianthio multo longiore, 
raro obconico, Columna nana, subteres, raro elongata semiteres. _Anthera bilo- 
cularis, truncata. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia; caudicula brevi, angustata ; glandula 
triangulari.— Epiphyte caulescentes. Folia coriacea, ligulata, apice obliqua. Flores 
solitarit v. racemosi, albi, nunc citrini vel herbacei. Lindl. 
AneGracum eburneum ; caule simplici, foliis coriaceis lucidis apice obliquis 7—10- 
striatis, spicis multifloris secundis, labello cordato subrotundo cuspidato basi 
jugo elevato cristato, caleare sepalo supremo parallelo et dimidio longiore, 
ovario scabro. 
ANGR&cuM eburneum. Thouars, Orchid. Afr. t. 65. Achill. Richard, Orchid. 
Maurit. p. 71. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1522. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 245. 
Limoporum eburneum. Bory, Voy. v. 1. p. 359. ¢. 19. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. 
p. 125. 
ANGR&cuM superbum. Thouars, Orchid. Afr. tt. 62, 63,64. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 
Orchid. p. 245. 
AEROBION superbum. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 716. 
It is not possible to render justice to this noble Orchideous 
plant on a quarto page. All we can do is to give a reduced figure 
of the entire plant, and a portion of a leaf and of the spike of 
flowers of the natural size, as they appeared on our specimens at _ 
Kew, which we derived from the collection of the late Mr. 
Clowes. The species is a native of Madagascar and Bourbon, 
and is yet very rare, we believe, in our stoves. ‘The first plant 
was imported by the Horticultural Society from the former is- 
land, through their collector, Mr. Forbes. The flowers have un- 
fortunately neither colour nor fragrance. 
Descr. Our plant is about two feet high ; the s/em, except the 
very base of it, is clothed with large, sheathing, coriaceous, shin- 
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