HORTUS VEITCHI1 



almost lying one upon the other, and the flowers, produced on longer 

 peduncles, are more numerous and more richly coloured. 



AEEIDES MULTIFLOEUM, Eoxb., var. VEITCHII, Morren. 

 La Belg. Hort. 1881, p. 123; Les Orchidees, t. 4; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 75. 



A form closely resembling the variety Lobbii, but with less crowded 

 leaves, and flowers lighter in colour : the sepals and petals are white 

 dotted with rose and the lip light rose-purple. It was introduced from 

 Moulmein through Thomas Lobb with the variety which bears his name. 



AEEIDES PACHYPHYLLUM, Echb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiv. p. 230. 



A fine species imported from Burmah in a consignment of Aerides 

 crassifolium, but now apparently lost to cultivation. The leaves are short, 

 thick, fleshy and unequally bilobed at the apex ; the flowers, in short 

 racemes, are light crimson-lake, with white spur and column and lip 

 painted with purple. 



ANGE^ICUM CITEATUM, Thouars. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5624; 1'Illus. Hort. 1886, xxxiii. t. 592; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. 



p. 125, fig. 



First discovered by the French botanist Du Petit Thouars towards the 

 end of the eighteenth century in Madagascar, but subsequently lost sight 

 of until a plant, which we believe we obtained through Mr. Ellis, flowered 

 at Chelsea in 1865. 



At that time Angraecum citratum was exceedingly rare in British orchid 

 collections, and continued to be so till the opening of the Suez Canal 

 afforded facilities for the more rapid transmission of plants from Mada- 

 gascar. 



ANGE^ECUM FALCATUM, LindL 



Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 283; Bot. Mag. t. 2097; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. vii. p. 128; 



id. Catlg. of PI. 1869, p. 23. 



An unpretending little orchid of great botanical and horticultural 

 interest from the fact that it was the first Angraecum cultivated in the 

 glass-houses of Europe, and one of the earliest of the Japanese orchids 

 ever introduced. It was first sent to this country about the year 1813 by 

 Dr. Eoxburgh, but probably lost to cultivation until we re-introduced it 

 from Japan about the year 1868. 



ANGE^ECUM HYALOIDES, Echb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiii. p. 264; 1'Orchidophile, 1889, p. 347, col. pi.; 

 Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. vii. p. 132. 



Introduced in 1879 through Curtis, who discovered it in North-East 



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