ANGRAECUM CAUDATUM. 
[PuaTe 358.] 
Native of Sierra Leone. 
Epiphytal. Stem erect, emitting from near the base numerous stout fleshy roots, 
and clothed with distichous sheathing leaves, which are lorate, channelled and 
obliquely notched at the apex, they are recurved, some ten inches in length, upwards 
of an inch in breadth, leathery in texture, and pale green. Spike axillary, pendant, 
flexuose, and many-flowered. Flowers some four inches across; sepals a. 
nearly uniform, linear acuminate, spreading, of an olive-green colour ; dip pure white, 
obovate, with a long claw, serrulate on the edge, with a long beak in front, 
produced on the base into a flexuose spur, some nine inches long, and of a 
ferrugineous brown, slightly notched at the end. Column short, erect, brown, with 
a long rostrum. Anther case furnished with a long 
Ancracum caupatum, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1844; Botanical Magazine, 
t. 4370; L’Orchidophile, 1887, p. 80; Williams, Orchid-Growers’ Manual, 6 ed., 
p. 114. 
Angrecum is a large African genus of Orchids, which has hitherto yielded 
only white flowers, although rumour records the recent arrival of a coloured species, 
which, however, must be seen before more can be said respecting it. Many of the 
kinds have but little beauty from a horticultural point of view, the plants and 
flowers being exceedingly small; but yet there are many kinds both beautiful and 
curious, whilst, perhaps, the largest flowered Orchid known, is a member of this 
family. Many new kinds have been discovered and introduced in a living state 
during the last few years, and have proved great acquisitions to our Orchid houses, 
their graceful spikes, and curious long-spurred flowers rendering them very distinct 
Brief descriptions of the most desirable species 
and varieties may be found in the 6 ed. of the Orchid-Growers’ Manual, p. 113. 
and we hope again to see this exceedingly interesting plant become popular. We 
are indebted to the kindness of Captain Vere Hopegood, of Craigieburn, Moffat, N.B., 
