1772 



* ANGR^CUM micranihum. 

 Small-flowered Angr cecum. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide.e § VANDEiE, Lindl. {Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany, p. 262.) 



ANGRjECUM.—Supra, vol. iS.foL 1522. 



A. micranthum ; caule brevi, folils oblongls trinerviis apice obliquis, spiels se- 

 cundis multifloris horizontalibus congestis foliis brevioribus, scpalls petalisque 

 subaequalibus anguste ovatis aplce patulis, labello conformi basi bilobo biden- 

 tato medio pubescente, calcare obtuso ineurvo postico. 



Caulis 2-jJollicaris. Folia IJ-p. longa, IJ-p. lata, plana, crassa. Flores 

 minuti, albi. 



A very small and unattractive species, lately introduced 

 by Messrs. Loddiges from Sierra Leone. It is quite distinct 

 from any previously described, but retains the peculiar 

 characters of the genus without deviation. It flowered in 

 February. 



It is curious that Angrsecum should be so exclusively an 

 African genus, that no certain species has yet been found 

 beyond its continent or immediately dependent islands, 

 although it evidently stretches across the whole of the 

 tropical part of Africa itself. In addition to this from Sierra 

 Leone, three or four other species are now in our gardens 

 from the same place, but all of them equally inconspicuous 

 with the present. Of these A. clandestinum, teretifolium and 

 distichum have already flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. Fig. 

 1. represents a lip with the spur attached ; 2. an entire 

 flower; and 3, a pair of pollen masses with their gland. 



' * Sec folio 1522. 



