158 ORCHIDS. 



Angr&cum falcatum. China and Japan. B. R., 283. 



SYN. Limodorum falcatum. Sert. Bot., vol. 7, 



as Limodorum. 

 B. M., 2097. 



A pretty little plant with narrow, dark green foliage. 

 Flowers pure white, fragrant, with long tail and large for 

 the size of the plant. With us this species grows freely 

 in a block in the cool house. 



B. Angrcecum pelluddum. Sierra Leone . B. R., 30, 2. 



A very pretty plant resembling a Phalcenopsis in growth, 

 with drooping racemes of delicate, crystalline, snow-white 

 flowers. 



May be grown in a basket. 



B. Angrcecum pertusum. Sierra Leone . B. M., 4782. 

 This species is in growth very much like an Aerides. 

 The pure white flowers are produced in March, in close, 

 drooping spikes, and are very graceful and elegant. 



A. Angrcecum sesquipedak. Madagascar. War. Orch., 31. 



Bat. 2d Cen., 151. I. H., 475. 



Jen. Orch., 3. B. M., 5113. 



This magnificent plant was brought by Rev. Wm. Ellis 

 from Madagascar, where it grows in great profusion, cov- 

 ing trees from top to bottom. The stems are three or 

 four feet high, the foliage a foot long, dark glaucous 

 green ; flowers six inches in diameter, ivory white, with 

 tail from ten to eighteen inches long. It is a very free- 

 growing and flowering plant, blooming when very small. 

 We have now (January, 1876) a plant only a foot high, 

 with two breaks, producing seven spikes of bloom. The 



