ANGR^CUM pellucidum. 



Transparent Angrec. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace.e. § Vande^e. 

 ANGRjECUM. Thouars. 



A. pellucidum ; acaule, foliis distichis oblongis subundulatis recurvis apice 

 obliquis basi equitantibiis, racemis densis nutantibus axillaribus foliis 

 brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, labello fimbriato cor- 

 dato-ovato truncate, calcare brevi lanceolato porrecto, caudiculis 2 subu- 

 latisj glandula, communi didyma. 



We lament to see how little justice our artists have been 

 able to do to this beautiful plant, whose flowers are as deli- 

 cate and transparent as if they were flakes of snow fixed by 

 frost in the very act of melting. Each part of the lip is 

 studded and bordered with little crystalline elevations, and 

 the whole fabric of the blossom is as fragile as thin plates of 

 glass. 



It was imported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges, 

 with whom it flowered in November 1842. It is number 

 1572 of their catalogue. 



Fig. 1. represents the column and spur of the labellum, 

 the limb of which, spread flat to shew its true form is seen 

 at 2. Fig. 3. represents the pollen-masses with their straps ; 

 and 4. is a single pollen-mass seen from behind where the 

 strap fitted on. 



We still regret the want of leisure to eff'ect that reforma- 

 tion in the genus, the necessity of which was alluded to at 

 fol. 68 of our volume for 1840. A comparison of the details 

 of this plate and of those of A. gladiifolium at the place just 

 quoted, will shew that the genus Angrec, as it now stands, 

 cannot be maintained entire. 



