Tas. 4782. 
ANGRASCUM peErtTusuoM. 
Perforated Angraecum. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDE®.—GyNAaNDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4761.) 
s elongato-oblongis rectiusculis 
AnGracum pertusum ; caule brevi, foliis distichi 
ifidis basi equitantibus, racemis 
carinatis utrinque pinnulatis apice oblique b 
densis nutantibus axillaribus folia squantibus, floribus imbricatis distichis, 
ovario sepalisque rotundatis concavis tuberculatis, petalis ovalibus, labello 
apice rotundato obtuso basi dilatato depresso, caleare clavato labelli longi- 
tudine. 
Ancracum pertusum. Lindl. in Paxton’s Mag. of Bot. v. 7. p. 237. 
Angraecum is eminently an African genus, and were that 
country and its adjacent islands laid open to the visits of bo- 
tanists the species would doubtless be found very numerous. 
Those that have been made known have been so chiefly through 
M. Aubert du Petit Thouars, and by imperfect descriptions. 
There is a vast difference in the size both of foliage and flowers 
between our present,plant and Angraecum eburneum, Tab. 4761 ; 
but the general structure of the flowers and the habit of the 
plant are alike in both. 4. pertuswm is stated in the work above 
quoted to have flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, but there 1s no 
indication of the country which it inhabits. It was sent to the 
Kew Gardens by Messrs. Jackson, of the Kingston Nursery, and 
though possessing, like, we believe, all its congeners, no brilliant- 
coloured flowers, there is much grace and elegance In the droop- 
ing spikes of compact white blossoms, which appear March. | 
““Duscr. There is a short, rather thick, creeping s¢em or caudex, 
about as thick as the finger, marked with the scars of fallen” 
leaves, and throwing out thick, fleshy, simple, flexuose roots. 
Leaves all distichous, about a span long, strap-shaped, thick, 
fleshy, carinate, dotted, obliquely and bluntly two-lobed at the 
apex, the base sheathing and equitant, like the leaves of an Zris. 
MAY Ist, 1854. ce eee ue ae 
