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the mid-nerve cohere to each other, except at the base,* like the 

 leaves of some species of Iris, and the blade is theuce brought into 

 a vertical position and imparts a habit to the plant that is peculiar 

 to the species so far as our present knowledge of the genus extends. 

 The ancipitous winged pedicels, the funnel-like upper part of the 

 spur of the labellum, the cleft rostellum and the double caudicles 

 of the pollinia are also noteworthy characters, the last two indicating 

 a near affinity with A. sesquipedale. 



"We are unable to follow Keiehenbach in referring Angrcecum Leonis 

 and A. sesquipedale to Lindley's genus Aeranthus, of which the only 

 genuine species known are A: grandijlorum, the type, and A. Arachnitis 

 (Dendrobium Arachnitis of Thouars). The first is figured in the Botanical 

 Register, t. 817, and the second in the Botanical Magazine, t. 6034 

 (wrongly spelt Aeranthus). Both are natives of Madagascar, and have 

 been in cultivation but are now probably lost, as neither of them are 

 sufficiently attractive to secure the favour of amateurs. A reference to 

 the figures we have quoted will show at a glance that these plants 

 differ notably from Angra3cum in habit, in the form of the flower, and 

 especially in the spur of the labellum, which is more tliat of an Aerides 

 than an Angraecum. 



A. modestum. 



Stems short, as thick as an ordinary writing-pencil, emitting numerous 



slender, branched, aerial roots. Leaves narrowly oblong, or narrowly 



obovate-oblong, 4 — 6 inches long, sub-acute or obliquely emarginate. 



Peduncles descending, 10 — 15 or more inches long, brownish green with 



numerous joints along the basal part, at each of which is a small, obtuse, 



closely appressed bract, and a similar one at the base of each pedicel. 



Flowers pure white, about an inch across vertically, on short, pale, 



orange-red pedicels ; sepals lanceolate ; petals broader, ovate-lanceolate 



acute ; lip broadly ovate, apiculate ; spur slender, 2 J — 3 inches long, 



white. Column very short. 



Angrajcum modestum, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6693 (1883). Gard. Cliron. III. 

 s. 3. (1888), p. 428. A. Ellisii, Lindcnia II. (1886), t. 92. A. Sauderiauum, Rchb. 

 in Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), p. 168. Rev. hort. 1888, p. 516. Rci: hort. 

 Beige, 1889, p. 217. 



The plant figured in the Botanical Magazine under the above name 



was pi'esented by the Dowager Lady Ashburton to the Royal Gardens 



at Kew, where it flowered in April, 1883, and this was probably the 



first time of its flowering in this country. Five years later the 



species was imported from Madagascar by Messrs. Low and Co., and 



about the same time Messrs, Sander and Co. received a consignment 



* The leaves of Angrcecum eburneum, A. sesquijicdale, and A. pcrtusum show a tendency 

 to the same peculiarity. 



