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a tail of pale olive green colour, about nine inches long. We 

 have sometimes seen twelve or more of these curious flowers 

 on a spike ; its season of blooming is from June to Septem- 

 ber, and it continues in perfection a long time. It is still, 

 and alwaj's has been, a rare plant. — Sierm Leone. 



Fig.— Sot. Beg , t. 1.^44 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4370. 



A. Chailluatllim, Hook f. — This is a very distinct and rare 

 plant, interesting, like its congeners, because of the tail-like 

 spurs with which the flowers are furnished. The leaves are 

 leathery, ligulate, blunt and very unequally blotched at the 

 apex, six or eight inches long, one or two broad, dark green. 

 The flowers are white, with narrow sepals, petals, and lip, and 

 a yellowish green spur three to four inches long, produced 

 about a dozen together in pendulous racemes during August 

 and September. It succeeds best grown on a block of wood 

 with a little moss. — West Africa. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5589. 



A. citratum, Tlwuars. — A beautiful and free-flowering dwarf 

 species, admirably adapted for basket culture. It has a very 

 short stem, smooth broad bright green, close-set oblong- 

 lanceolate leaves, and slender pendulous racemes of small 

 but pretty flowers of a pale yellowish white, closely and 

 evenly set in two rows along the rachis. It is a compact- 

 growing plant, and until within the last few j^ears was 

 extremely rare. — Madagascar. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5G24. 



A. crenatum, EcJib. f. — This is a very rare plant, and quite 

 distinct. The flowers resemble those of A. Chailluanum in 

 colour and shape, but are much smaller, as is also the growth 

 of the plant ; it flowers in June and July. — West Africa. 



A. cryptodon, Rchh. f. — A distinct species, comparable in 

 regard to habit and foliage with A. Chailluanum, and in 

 its flowers, which are white and borne in lax racemes, 

 is equal to A. Ellisii. The latter have ligulate acute petals, 

 a lanceolate lip, and a filiform spur three times as long as the 

 stalked ovaries, which together with the base of the spur 

 are reddish-white, the rest of the spur being white. — Mada- 

 gascar. 



A. deSCendenP, Rchb. f. — A fine species which comes near 

 A. Ellisii, but differs in itsoblong-ligulate leaves being obscurely 



