Plate 111. 



ANGR^CUM EBURNEUM 



Ivory Angraciim. 



Gen. Char. PeriantJiiitm patens. Sepala et jyetala subaequalia, libera. Zahcllum sessile, cum 

 hasi columnae continuum, carnosum, indivisum, petalis multo latins ; cahare recto, cornuto, sfrpius 



antLio 



Cohimna nana, subteros, rare i-luiiL'^ata 



semiteres. Anthera bilocularis, truncata. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia; candlcula brovij nT!iru>i;ua ; 

 glanduld triangular!.- — Epipbytae catilescerites. Folia coriacea, Ihjulataj afire oWlij^ua. Ploros 9oU» 

 tarii v. racemosi^ albi^ nunc citrini vel herhacei. LinclL 



Angr^ecum ehurncnmj caule siraplici, foliis coriaceis bicidis apice obliqnis 7-10-5«triatis, spicig 



multifloris secundis, labello cordate snbrutuudo cuspidato basl jyi'^^^ elevate tristato, calcare 

 sepalo supremo parallelo et dimidio longiore, ovorio scabro. 



Angr.^cum ebnrneura. Thouars^ Orchid. Afr. t. C5. AcJtllL FlehirJ, Orchid. Maurit. ]>. 71. LtndL 



Bot. Reg. t. 1522. Oen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 245. Ellis's Madagascar passim. 



LiMonoRUM eburneum. Bonj, Voy. v. 1. p. 359. t. 19. Willd. Sp. PL r. i. p. 125. 

 ANGEiECUM superburn. Thouars, Orchid. Afr. tt. G2, 63, 64. Llridl Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 215. 

 Aerobion superbum. Sjprenrj. Syst. Vcget. v. 3. p. 710. 



It is not possible to render justice to this noble Orchidcous plant on a quarto 

 page. All that can be done is to give a reduced figure of the entire plant, and a 

 portion of a leaf and of a spike of flowers of the natural size, as they appear at 

 Kew, where the plant — which once formed a portion of the collection of the hitc Mr. 



months, continuing long in beauty. The 



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Clowes — flowers freely during the winter months, continuing 

 species is a native of Madagascar and Bourbon, and is yet compa^ati^ 

 first plant was imported by the Horticultural Society from the former iManrl, through 

 their Collector, Mr. Forbes. The flowers have unfortunately neither coh)nr nor fra- 

 grance: It is found growing in conjunction with A. s€sq?npe<hh'—ixs may be «ecn in 

 the beautiful illustrations to Mr. Ellis's work on :\Iadaga.scar— and, like that species 

 requires a strong heat. 



Descr. Our plant is about two feet high; the stem, except the very base «/ It, is 

 clothed with lar-e, sheathing, coriaceous, shining, distichous, striated Irm-^^, two inch 



broad, singularly oblique at tlio apex 



If. From bet>\<^n Jh 



lower leaves many stout radicles descend from the stem. FedimcU arising (n 



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