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194. ANGRÆCUM SESQUIPEDALE. Du Petit Trouars. matted and succulent as those of the superbum, but few in number, separate, 
The only original account that we have hitherto had of this extraor- long, and wiry, frequently running down the outside of the tree on which 
dinary of a figure and a few words of description published it grew 12 or 18 feet or more, and so tough in themselves, and adhering 
in 1832 by Du Petit Thouars in his History of the Plants found in Mada- so tenaciously to the bark of the rie that a considerable amount of 
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star of ix Tay points ; but viewed i in profile the ten 
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large, and gm gl umerous nor 
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Ys n the month of August; that its stem Ilo d a trunk of at toe nie rotten on the ground, and 
is 18 inches high with close r ibbon-shaped 2-lo by Angreec dale stip $ at intervals along its entire ge ic 
broad ; and that its flowers are very large and white. To this roots which had penetrated nse. vegetable fibre e 
some technical matter which we need not reprint. He called it j were comparatively white, sho A "and fleshy ; the soy larger, of 
sesquipedalian, because its w were a foot and half long. n a darker green, and more succulent, ae! there were no p t was 
unpublished coloured figure pre- ngo wing on trees that arose 
poor and sandy scil, 
The Set last a long time and 
are objects of A raghas beauty. The 
aspect and habit of the plants I I 
brought hom 
to be much pS for the better. 
een in Madagascar, and 
In the Genera and Speci 
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we are not just now prepared to express any decided opinion 
on the question, and therefore we leave the palas of the 
Home Correspon dense 
Amaryllids.—In the Messrs. Frs ursery at 
, reported at p. 156, it is stated that “the Ath 
Calla being very ts associates” (in the show 
house) fi varie! its te 
served to make ty; 
trumpet-like fiowers standing up in bold relief from all others 
had a striking effect ; these are much sought after for table 
quets.” alike 
