132 . ANOR.I^CUM. 



an inch long ; spur slender, 3 inches long, greenish white. Column very 



short. 



Angrsecum Germinyanum, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7061. 

 A very remarkable species, " discovered in 1886 in the interior 

 of Madagascar, in the same forests with PJiaius tuherculosus and 

 P. Humhlotii," by M. Leon Hamblot, the French naturalist and 

 traveller, by whom it was sent to Messrs. Sander and Co. ; a very 

 few plants reached this country alive, so that it is still quite rare 

 in cultivation. It flowered for the first time in England in the 

 Royal Gardens at Kew, in May, 1888, and is dedicated to Comte 

 Adrien de Germiny, of Gouville, near Rouen, one of the most 

 munificent patrons of horticulture in France. The long attenuated 

 perianth segments of this species easily distinguish it from every 

 other cultivated Angrascum. 



A. hyaloides. 



A diminutive plant. Stems scarcely exceeding an inch in height with 

 5 — 7 oval-oblong spreading leaves, obtuse or unequally two-lobed at 

 the apex. Racemes a little longer than the leaves, 10 — 15 flowered. 

 Flowers small, distichous and alternate, transparent white, on short, 

 Avhite pedicels ; sepals, petals, and lip similar and sub-equal, oval- 

 oblong, acute, the sepals the narrowest ; spur slender, as long as the 

 pedicel. 



Angrsecum hyaloides, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIII. (1880), p. 136. Godefroy's 

 OrcMdopMle, 1889, p. 347. 



The most admired of the minute Angrsecums and invariably character- 

 ised in the horticultural press as " a little gem." It was introduced by 

 us in 1879 through Curtis, who discovered it in north-east Madagascar 

 growing on small shrubs forming the undergrowth of the dense 

 forest along the low, swampy coast, always in sbade. The flowers 

 are produced in great profusion for the size of the plant, and are 

 of a delicate, semi-transparent texture, which suggested the specific 

 name (from v oAo't, crystal). 



A. Kotschyi. 



Stem short, emitting stoutish, flexuose, grey-brown roots that are 

 sometimes 20 — 30 inches long. Leaves few but variable in size and 

 shape, the largest obovate-oblong, 5 — 7 inches long, unequally bi-lobed 

 at the apex and very leathery, the smaller ones narrowly oblong, 3 — 4 

 inches long, sub-acute or emarginate. Racemes quite pendulous, 7 — 10 

 or more flowered. Flowers white, \^ inch in diameter, on pale red- 

 brown pedicels 1^ inch long; the dorsal sepal and petals ovato-nblong, 



