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species, seldom to be found, however, in collections. It 

 somewhat resembles an Ai-ridcs in its growth. The distichous 

 leaves are lorate, with an obliquely bilobed apex, rather narrow, 

 channelled above, fleshy and dark green. The spike is 

 pendulous, longer than the leaves, secund, densely packed 

 with white flowers, which have a short pale yellowish spur 

 about as long as the lip ; it blooms during the late autumn 

 and winter months. — Sierra Leone. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4782. 

 Syn. — Listrostachys j^ertusa, 



A. ScotliaEllin, -Rf/'^>. ./'. — A very distinct and pretty species, 

 which has been introduced to this country by Sir John Kirk, 

 and has been flowered by the late Mr. Scott, of Waltham- 

 stow, after whom it is named. It has a terete elongated 

 rooting stem, and is the only Aju/ru-cuvi as far as we know 

 with terete leaves, which are subdistichous, semi-cylindi-ical, 

 and subacute. The flowers are produced from the axils of the 

 leaves on one or two flowered peduncles, sometimes as long 

 as the leaves, and are large pure white, in shape similar to 

 those of A. eburneiuii, but rounded and abruptly mucronate at 

 the apex of the lip, the slender tapering spur six inches long 

 and of a pale brownish yellow colour ; it flowers in June and 

 July. — Comoro Islea. 



¥iG.— But. Mag., t. 6720 ; Gurd. Chvon.. N.S., xiv. 137, fig. .00 : Flor. Man., 

 N.s, t,421. 



A. sesquipedale, Thouarti. — A 



wonderful and noble plant of great 

 beauty, and certainly the finest 

 species of the genus yet discovered. ^ 

 It was brought to England by the 

 late Rev. W. Ellis, of Hoddesdon, 

 from Madagascar, where he found 

 it growing on trees. The stem is 

 simple and rooting ; the leaves 

 close-set, distichous, leathery, ob- 

 long, blunt and bilobed at the 

 apex, keeled, and of a dark green 

 colour. The flowers are of a clear 

 ivory white, and very large, a foot 

 across, with a greenish tail or spur 

 from twelve to eighteen inches in 

 length hanging from the flower. 



ANUlt.-ECtTM SESQUIPEDALE. 



The peduncles are axillary 



