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acute, reflexed ; the lateral sepals longer and narrower, lanceolate, acute, 

 spreading ; lip with a broad claw and sub-rhomboidal, apiculate blade ; 

 spur very long for the size of the flower, slender, twisted, 8 — 9 inches 

 long, pale red-brown. 



Angrgecum Kotschvi, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), pp. 456 and 693, icon, 

 xyl. Id. XXII. (1884), p. 712. WiUiams' Orch. Alb. IV. t. 179. 



The botanical history of this curious Angraecum was sketched by 

 the late Professor Reichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle, loc. 

 cit., from which we extract the following particulars : — It was first 

 discovered in 1838 by Theodor Kotschy, who gave no locality; 

 it was next met witb by C. J. Meller in 1860, in the valley of 

 the Shire river, not far from its junction with the Zambesi. Two 

 years later it was gathered by Captain Grant in the region of the 

 upper Nile^ whose specimen (imperfect) is preserved in the Kew 

 Herbarium. In 1876 it was found by the German botanical traveller, 

 Hildebrandt, on the coast of Zanzibar, and three years later living 

 plants were sent by Sir John Kirk, the British Consul at Zanzibar, 

 to Mr. Gerald Walker, who had previously introduced Angrcecum 

 Scottianum, and from whom we acquired them. It flowered for the 

 first time in tbis country in our Chelsea Nursery in the autumn 

 of 1880. 



It is evident from the above sketch that Angrcecum Kotschyi is 

 widely dispersed over eastern Africa, occurring in Zanzibar and in 

 the countries administered both by the East and South African 

 Companies. Although we are not aware of its having been imported 

 since its first introduction, and is now, in consequence, a very rare 

 plant in European gardens, its re-introduction may be very reason- 

 ably looked for at no very distant date. 



A. Leonis. 



Stem as thick as the little finger, a few inches high in the 

 imported plants, ligneous below, the upper part concealed by the bases 

 of the equitant leaves. Leaves fleshy, ensiform, falcate, 5 — 10 inches 

 long, the blade vertical from the cohesion of the halves at their upper 

 surface on either side of the mid-nerve. Peduncles stoutish, erect, or 

 sub-erect, racemose, 3 — 7 or more flowered. Flowers white, 2 — 3 inches in 

 diameter, on compressed, ancipitous, narrowly winged pedicels 3 inches 

 long, including the short six-ribbed ovary ; sepals and petals lanceolate, 

 acuminate, recurved, keeled behind, the petals a little shorter and 



