Plate 151. 



ANGKiEOUM SP]SQUIPEDALE 



Long-tailed Angr cecum. 



Gen. Char. ( Vld.e supra, Plate 111.) 



Angrj:cum sesquipedale ; caule subsimplici radicoso^ foliis distiche imbrioatis <-"l)longis basi attenu- 



atis carinatis apice obtusissime bilobis, pedunculis axillaribus 2-5-flons, floribus inter maximos 

 albis, petalis sepalisque patentibus suba)qualibus e basi latis sensim acuminatis, libcllo cor- 



dato-ovato acuininato marginibus utrinque versus medium grossc 

 longissimo flexuoso viridi. 



sesquipedale- Auh. da Pet.'Thouars, Hist, des PL Orchid, Afy 



serrati 



Angrj:cum 



r/ 



size) and. 67 (reduced figure) . Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1857,2). 253 fwith woodcut of 

 nat. size). 



Aeranthus sesquipedalis. LiiidL Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 244. 



■ 



Beautiful as is Angrwcum ehurneu 



(see 



Tab. Ill) 



cance in 



parison with the pi 



species from Madag 



shrinks into iusignifi 

 'r. known to botanist 



only through the figures above quoted of Aubert du Petit-Thouars (published 

 1822), till the 



Rev. William Ellis, the distinofuished 



gascar, on his last 



fr 



that 



onderful island 



us 



living plant, which that gentleman has twice flowered 



fir 



g account and figure appeared 



the 'Gardeners' Ch 



liistorian of Mada- 

 icquaintcd with the 

 857, when the inter- 

 im ' nnd n<Tain in the 



of 1859, at his residence, Hoddesdon, Herts, where the drawing for the * Buta 



Mag 



was made. Though not one of the figures quoted, not even 



th( 



original ones of Du Petit-Thouars (though there was ample space in the large foho 

 page) exactly warrants the sesquipedalian specific name, still there is enough to excite 



the flower, and extraordinary length of the spur. 



astonishment in the great size of 



the spur 



The former, in the specimen before us, measures seven inches across, and^ 

 foot in length, so that if the spur were set on at the edge of the flower, instead of 

 middle, it would rather exceed than fall short of the size attributed to it. This flc 

 is of a uniform, pure ivory or yellowish white, and it has the merit of possessing 



odour of the white Garden Lily, Lilium candidum 



of Mr. Ellis as he travelled through 



The pla 



continually attrncted 

 ds; more than one of 



his photographs includes trunks of trees loaded with this prince of Orchideous pi 



