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ANGR^CUM. 



broader than the sepals ; lip cordate, cuspidate, concave, produced at 



the base into a flexuose spur 5 — 6 inches long, funnel-shaped and 



compressed at its upper part, and with a short elevated plate at its 



aperture, the dilated half white, the distal slender half green. Column 



very short, the rostellum produced in front into two rounded plates. 



AngTiBcum Leonis, supra. Aeranthus Leonis, Rchb.in Gard. Chron. XXIIl. (1885), 

 p. 726 ; XXIV. p. 80, icon. xyl. Williams' Orch. Alb. V. t. 213. 



Angi'fficum Leonis. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Discovered by M. Leon Hnmblot in the Comoro islands, and 

 introduced by him into European gardens in 1885. It is a remarkable 

 addition to the genus, and in a horticultm^al sense one of the most 

 useful of Angrsecums on account of the freedom with which its chaste 

 blossoms are produced. Botanically it is a very interesting plant ; its 

 leaves are equitant, that is to say, the upper surfaces on each side of 



