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where it was found both by Colonel Bory de St. Vincent and 

 by Du Petit Thouars, It was also met with at St. Mary's^ 

 Madagascar, by the unfortunate Forbes, by whom the only {jlant 

 known to exist in Europe (1832) was sent to the Horticultural Society 

 of London, in whose garden at Chiswick it flowered in November, 

 1831." Angrcecum ehurneitm continued to be very rare in British 

 gardens for a long time afterwards, the only record we find of it 

 being the figure and description in the Botanical Magazine for 1854 

 of a plant that flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew, and which had 

 been derived from the collection of the Rev. John Clowes. It was 

 subsequently sparingly imported both from Bourbon and Madagascar; 

 the Madagascar plant differing from the Bourbon type in its somewhat 

 more cordate labellum had received specific rank from the founder 

 of the genus under the name of A. siiperhmn, but this difference 

 has since been found to be inconstant, and thence scarcely varietal. 

 The variety virens, which seems to be a small state of the type, 

 first appeared in Messrs. Loddiges' nursery in 1817, and again 

 thirteen years later in the Royal Gardens at Kew ; it is probably 

 now lost to cultivation. 



Angra^cum ehurneum offers a remarkable contrast to all the other 

 cultivated Angrascums in the unusual dimensions attained by it even 

 in the glass-houses of Europe; it is not only the Goliath of its own 

 genus, but it is a giant among orchids, comparable in size and aspect 

 with Stauropsis lissochiloides fVanda Batemanii). Stately as is the 

 aspect of the plant, especially when in flower, it takes up more 

 house room than can bo often conveniently assigned to it, which 

 goes far to account for its comparative rarity in the orchid 

 collections of Great Britain. 



A. Ellisii. 



Stems as thick as the little finger, 10 inches high in plant observed. 

 Leaves narrowly oblong, 5 — 8 inches long and 1| — 2 inches broad, 

 emarginate or unefjually bi-Iobed at the apex, very leathery. Peduncles 

 18 — 21 inches long, first arching, then pendulous, racemed along the 

 distal two-thirds, bearing 12 — 20 or more flowers on greenish pedicels 

 springing from a small protuberance on the rachis and sheathed at the 

 base by a small scaly brown bract. Flowers very pure white, the 

 apical ones about 2|- inches in diameter, those towards and at the 

 basal end of the raceme somewhat smaller ; sepals and petals similar 

 and sub-equal, olliptic-oljloiig, acute, the dorsal sepal inflexed at the- 



