1 28 ANQR^CUM. 



apex, the petals and lateral sepals reflexed ; lip nearly similar to the 



other segments, hut broader, elliptic-olilong, acute ; spur slender, 6 — 7 



inches long, tinged with pale orange-red. 



Angraicum Ellisii, Rchb. in Flora, 1872, p. 278. Card. Chron. III. (1875), p. 277, 

 ieou. xyl. Fl. Mag. N.s. t. 191. Kidley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXI. p. 483. 



This very rare and curious Angrgecum was discovered about the 



year 1854 by the Rev. W. Ellis, during his first missionary journey 



in Madagascar^ and who brought home but three living plants, one 



of which shortly afterwards died : he sold the remaining two to the 



late Mr. B. S. Williams, of Holloway, one of which was acquired 



by Mr. John Day, in whose orchid collection at Tottenham it flowered 



for the first time in England. Angrccciim Ellisii has since been 



sparingly imported, first by ourselves in 1879-80 through Curtis, who 



found it growing on the margins of lakes and swamps in partially 



exposed places in north-east Madagascar, and later by other firms. 



An importation of A. articulatum in 1881 was accidentally sold in 



one of the London auction rooms under the name of A, Ellisii, 



whence has arisen in some collections a confusion between the two 



species. A. Ellisii is a much larger plant than A. articulatum, with 



longer racemes of larger flowers, which, although structurally 



very near those of the last-named species, may be easily distinguished 



from them by their Gardenia-like fragrance and their much longer 



pale orange-red spur. 



A. falcatum. 



A diminutive plant. Stems 1 — 2 inches high, each with 3 — 5 some- 

 what falcately linear, acute leaves, 2 — 3 inches long, channelled on the 

 face, sharply keeled beneath. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 3 — 5 or 

 more flowered. Flowers fragrant, milk-white, about f inch in diameter, 

 on slender pedicels 2 inches long ; sepals and petals similar and equal, 

 linear-oblong, acute ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes minute, tooth-like, 

 the intermediate lobe narrowly oblong, retuse ; spur filiform, curved, as 

 long as the pedicel. 



Angrfecum falcatum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 237, in note (1832), sub. 

 (Eccodades falcata. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. p. 336 (1881). Linjodorum 

 falcatum, Swartz in Nov. Act. Up. VI. p. 79 (1799). Bot. Reg. t. 283 (1818). 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2097. GEceoclades falcata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 237 (1832). 

 Franch. et Sav. Enum. pL Jap. II. p. 28. Aerides Thunbergii, Miq. Prod. p. 137. 

 So Mokou, XVIII. fol. 24. Orchis falcata, Thunb. Fl. jap. p. 26. 



The unpretending little orchid described above has an exceptional 



interest attached to it, not only from a scientific point of view on 



account of its geographical position and from the difficulty experienced 



