Tab. 7813. 



ANGR^CUM ElCHLEEIANUM. 

 Native of Calabar, 



Nat. Ovd. Orcuides. — Tribe Vande.*. 

 Genus ANGEiECUM, Thou. ; {Benih. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 583.) 



Angr^ctjm (Enangrsectim) Eichlerianutn; scandens, caule elato Tobuato 

 compresso \ poll, lato ancipiti, radicibas longisaimis, foliis sessilibas 

 distichis 4-5 poll, longis oblongis apice obtusis inajqnaliter emarginatis 

 cragae coriaceia supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis, vaginis l-H 

 poll, longia, peduncalis decurvis foliis suboppoaitis gracilibns viridibus 

 3-4 poll, longia 1-3-floris ima basi vaginis paucis brevibus arete amplec- 

 tentibua instructis, bracteis parvis oblongis coriaceis pedicelloa arete 

 vaginantibus, pedicellia cum ovariia poUicaribua viridibus, floribua 

 amplis, sepalis fere 2 poll, longia anguste lineari-oblongia obtuai.** 

 strictia eneiviis flavo-viridibus, petalia sepalis consimilibas et concoloribua 

 sed brevioribus, labello amplo subreniformi-quadrato late cuapidato albo 

 lateribua recurvia disco flavo-viridi basin versus bicarinato, ealcare 

 sepalis breviore saturate viridi ultra basin infundibularem constricto 

 gennflexo dein elongato angusto fusi forme subacuto. 



A. Eichlerianum, Krdnzh in Berl. Gart. Zeit. vol. i. (1882) p. 434, tig. 102 ; 

 in Miith. Beutsch. SehiUz. Geh. vol, ii. (1889) lo9, et in BeicUb. f. Xen. 

 Orchid, vol, iii. p. 128, t. 273, fig. 2. Balfe in This. B^er, FL Trop. Afr. 

 vol. vii. p, 143. 



The localities given for A. Eichlerianum in the "Flora 

 of Tropical Africa" are Soutli Oanieroons region, and 

 near Kapamba, in the gorge of the Loango River, both 

 in the Gulf of Guinea. The first of these localities is not 

 far distant from Old Calabar in Nigeria, whence the 

 specimen here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens in 

 1900 by Mr. J. H. Holland, Superintendent of the Botanic 

 Gardens at that town. It flowered in a tropical house 

 in June, and kept in flower till September. In the form 

 and colour of the flower it closely resembles A. Gijriama^y 

 Rendle, but in habit, stature, foliage, and the form of 

 the spur, these species are very unlike. 



Descr. — Stem elongate, stout, compressed, obtusely two- 

 edged, leafy, emitting roots a foot long. Leaves alternate, 

 sessile, distichous, four to five inches long, oblong, obtuse 

 or rounded, and emarginate at the tip, thickly coriaceous, 

 deep green above ; sheaths an inch to an inch and a half 

 Januakt 1st, 1902, 



