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filiform flexuose spur more than twice as long as the ovaries. 

 — JSladagascar. 



A. G-rantii. — See Angr.ecum Kotschyi. 



A. Hildebrandtii, Rchh. f. — An elegant but very small- 

 growing plant, with ligulate unequally bilobed leaves and 

 spreading lax racemes of yellow-orange flowers, having an 

 oblong-acute lip and a filiform clavate spur shorter than the 

 ovary. — Comoro Isles. 



A. Kotsctiyi, Rchb. f. — One of the most distinct of the 

 newer Anrfnceums, and one of small dimensions, flowering 

 while young. It has broad polymorphous spathulate, un- 

 equally bilobed leathery leaves, of a dark shining green ; 

 and the flowers, which are produced in many-flowered pen- 

 dulous racemes, are creamy white, each with a pandurate lip, 

 and a remarkable spirally-twisted reddish spur several inches 

 in length. It flowers in October. — Trojncal Africa. 



¥ia.—Gard. Chron., N.S., xiv. 456; Id., 693-4, fig. 131. 

 Syn. — A. Grantii. 



A. modestuni, Hook f. — A pretty small-growing species 

 in the way of A. ajyiculatum and A. hilobum, with elliptic- 

 oblong subacute leaves, and pendulous racemes bearing pretty 

 flowers, which are pure white, remarkable for their slightly 

 hairy column, and having the rachis and pedicels pale brown, 

 instead of green. — Madagascar. 



FlG.—Boi. Mag., t. GG93. 



A. pellucidum, Lmdley. — A bold-habited plant, making 

 distichous tufts of bright green shining oblong leaves a foot 

 to a foot and a half in length, and producing long spikes of 

 small white flowers which " are as delicate and transparent 

 as if they were flakes of snow fixed by frost in the very act of 

 melting," each part of the lip being studded and bordered 

 with little crystalline elevations, and the whole fabric of the 

 blossoms as fragile as a thin plate of glass ; it blooms in 

 winter, which makes it an acquisition at that dull season. It 

 requires to be kept in the warm house, and makes a good 

 basket or block plant, being in growth very much like a 

 Phalcenopsis. — Sierra Leone. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., 1844, t. 2. 

 SyN. — Listrostachys 2}iUucida. 



A. pertusum, Lindley. — This is a very distinct and pretty 



