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arranged (secund) along the upper side of the rachis ; sepals broadly 



ovate, concave ; petals similar but smaller ; lip obovate-spathulate ; 



concave above ; spur slender, decurved, greenish, a little longer than 



the blade, 



Angrsecum pertusum, Lindl. in Paxt. Macr. Bot. VII. p. 237 (1840). Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4782. A. Pescatoreanum, Lindl. iu Jour. Hort. Soc. IV. p. 263 (1849). 

 Listrostachys pertusa, Rclib. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 908 (1864). 



Angrcecum pertusum was first cultivated by Messrs. Loddiges, in 

 whose nursery at Hackney it flowered in 1840, but who left 

 no record of its origin. Nine years later a plant, which had been 

 received from the Isle of Bourbon, flowered in the collection of 

 M, Pescatore, at St. Cloud, Paris, but on materials being sent to 

 Dr. Lindley for naming he failed to identify it with Messrs. Loddiges' 

 plant, and named it A. Pescatoreanum, which Reichenbach afterwards 

 reduced to a synonym of A. pertusum {Listrostachys pertusa). The 

 Isle of Bourbon is its only known station. 



The extreme formality of the inflorescence has acquired for this 

 orchid among gardeners the name of the " fish-bone Angraecum," 

 from its fancied resemblance to the spine of a small fish. 



A. Scottianura. 



Stems cylindric, as thick as a goose-quill, 12 — 20 or more inches 

 high, green and leafy along the upper third, clothed with brown 

 sheaths below. Leaves terete, 3 — 4 inches long, deeply grooved on 

 the upper side, spreading and recurved. Peduncles slender, as long 

 as the leaves, one — two flowered. Flowers inverted, 1| — 2 inches in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals similar, linear, acute, pale straw-yellow 

 changing to white, the petals a little the narrowest ; lip transversely 

 oblong, concave and pure white above, with a mucro on the anterior 

 edge, and prolonged at the base into a pale reddish brown slender 

 spur 4 — 5 inches long. Column very short, with two small hatchet- 

 shaped wings in front. 



Angrfficum Scottianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. X. (1878), p. 556. Id. Xen, 

 Orch. Ill, p. 75, t. 239, fig. 2. Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 136, icon, xyl, Fl. 

 Mag. N.s. t. 421. £oL Mag. t. 6723. Godefroy's Orchidophile, 1886, p. 387. 



First obtained by Sir John Kirk in 1878 from Johanna, one of 



the Comoro islands, and sent by him to Mr. Gerald Walker, from 



whom we acquired the few plants that survived the voyage; it was 



also sent about the same time to the Royal Gardens at Kew. The 



species is dedicated to Mr. R. Scott, of Cleveland, Walthamstow, in 



whose garden it flowered for the first time in this country iu 1879; 



it flowered shortly afterwards in our Chelsea Nursery, and in the 



following year at Kew. An importation in 1885 through M. Leon 



