130 ANGR^RCUM. 



A. fastuosum. 



A dwarf plant. Stems 1—2 inches high, with 3—5 oval-oblong 

 spreading leaves, 2 — 3 inches long, with a depressed mid-line, emar- 

 ginate or unequally bi-lobed at apex. Peduncles short, stoutish, pale 

 green, 2 — 4 flowered. Flowers fragrant, IJ inch in diameter, of the 

 purest white ; sepals and petals similar and sub-equal, narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong, acute ; lip broader than the other segments, obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, with a raised mid-line ; spur slender, 3 inches long, that some- 

 times has a reddish tinge along the distal half. 



AngTfecum fastuosum, Echb. in Card. Chron. XYI. (1881), p. 748 and 844 ; 

 XXIII. (1885), p. 533, icon. xyl. 



One of the discoveries of the French naturalist and traveller, M. 

 Leon Humblot, through whom it was introduced by Messrs. Sander 

 and Co. in 1881, but, it would seem, in very limited numbers, 

 the only plant known to us in cultivation for some years afterwards 

 being in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford 

 Lodge, by whom it was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 meeting on April 22nd, 1884, presumably the first occasion of its 

 flowering in England. A recent importation has caused it to become 

 better known. Like the species last described it is a diminutive 

 plant, but totally different in aspect, both in its foliage and flowers ; 

 the purity and fragrance of the latter render the species one of the 

 most admired in the genus. 



A. fragrans.* 



" Stems 6 — 10 or more inches high, as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 

 few, towards the top of the stem, lorate, 3 — 4 inches long, ^— | inch 

 broad, deeply two-lobed at the tip. Peduncles ascending, 2— 2| inches 

 long including ovary. Flowers sohtary, 2 inches in diameter, white, 

 fragrant ; sepals and petals linear, spreading and recurved ; lip as long 

 as the sepals, hastately lanceolate, grooved down the centre ; spur 

 slender, longer than the sepals, green. Column very short." — Botanical 

 Magazine. 



Angrajcum fragrans, Thouars, Orch. lies. Afr. t. 54 (1822). Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 

 Orch. p. 246 (1832). Bot. Mag. t. 7161. Aerobimn fragrans, Sprang. Syst. veg. III. 

 p. 716 (1826). Aerauthus fragrans, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 899 (1864). 



A species that has been known to science from the early part of 



the present centui-y, and at present in cultivation in the Royal Gardens 



at Kew, whither it was sent by Mr. Home, Director of the Botanic 



Garden at Pamplemousse, near Port Louis in Mauritius, of which 



island it is a native, and also of the neighbouring island of Bourbon. 



* Not seen liy us. 



