Tas. 8758. 
ANGRAECUM GRACILIPES. 
Madagascar. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE. 
AncraEcum, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 583. 
Angraecum gracilipes, Rolfe; species nova ab A. recwrvo, Thouars, foliis 
amplioribus et pedicellis longissimis differt. 
Herba epiphytica, caulibus brevibus. Folia disticha, suberecta vel arcuata, 
lorata, breviter biloba, 8-18 cm. longa, 2-5 em. lata, coriacea, basi con- 
duplicata. Pedicelli axillares, graciles, suberecti vel arcuati, 15-18 cm. 
longi, vaginis paucis spathaceis obtecti, uniflori. Flores mediocres, albi. 
Sepala et petala patentia, lanceolata, obtusa, 2°5-3 cm. longa. Labellum 
subpandurato-ovatum, obtusum, 2°5-3 em. longum, basi subconduplicatum ; 
ealcar gracile, 5-7 em. longum, basi curvatum et incrassatum. Colwmna 
lata, 0°5 cm. longa, utrinque late auriculata, auriculis truncatis et integris. 
Pollinia 2, orbicularia et subcompressa; stipites brevissimi; glandula 
oblonga.— Angraecum recurvum, Hort. Gard. Chron. 1913, vol. liv. pp. 367, 
374, fig. 182; Orch. Rev. 1913, fig. 65; non Thouars.—R. A, Roure. 
The Madagascar Anyraecum now described was intro- 
duced from that island some years ago by Messrs. 
Charlesworth and Company, Hayward’s Heath. The 
individual flowers in this species bear so close a resem-. 
blance to those of A. recurvum, Thouars, also a native of 
Madagascar, that when in November, 1913, an example 
flowered in the establishment of Messrs. Charlesworth, 
it was exhibited in public and was accorded an award 
of merit under the name A. recurvum, which was 
also employed in connection with figures of the plant, 
reproduced from a photograph, published in the same 
year. An example purchased from Messrs. Charlesworth 
for the Kew collection of orchids flowered there in 
November, 1916, and enabled the figure here given to 
be prepared. The study of this plant has made it clear 
that it belongs to a species, which may be termed 
A. gracilipes, very distinct from the true A. recwrvum in 
its greatly elongated pedicels and its much larger leaves. 
Aprit-Joune, 1918. 
