ANGRACUM EBURNEUM. 
[Pate 41.} 
Native of Madagascar and Bourbon. 
Epiphytal. Stem erect, leafy, producing roots from the lower. part and from 
between the bases of the lower leaves. Leaves distichous, ligulate, Very oblique at 
the apex, coriaceous, of a shining green colour, striated, about two inches broad, 
earinate below and overlapping each other at the base. Peduncles axillary, furnished 
with dark sheathing scales, and bearing an erect spike of numerous large flowers o 
peculiar form and appearance, all pointing in one direction and placed alternately 
back to back in a distichous or two-ranked manner. Flowers of a thick fleshy 
texture, green, with a broad conspicuous white lip; sepals and petals lanceolate, 
pale green, the dorsal sepal and the petals’ reflexed, the lateral sepals patent; Jip 
large, broadly cordate, cuspidate, ivory white, the centre concave, and bearing a cleft 
acuminated ridge; spur tapering, considerably longer than and parallel with the 
dorsal sepal, dark green. Column short, thick, greenish white. 
ANGR&CUM EBURNEUM, Du Petit-Thouars, Orchidées des Iles Australes & Afrique, 
t. 65; Lindley, Botanical Register, t. 1522; Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 4761; 
Pasxton’s Magazine of Botany, xvi., 90, with woodcut; Bateman, 2nd Century of 
Orchidaceous Plants, t.° 111: Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1873, 216, fic. 46; Willams, 
Orchid Grower's Manual, 5 ed., 88, with woodeut. 
ANGR&cCUM suPERBUM, Du Petit-Thouars, Orchidées, tt. 62-4. 
Limoporum EBURNEUM, Bory, Voyage, i, 359; t. 19. 
A grand Orchid which was first introduced to this country from Madagascar by 
the Horticultural Society of London, through their collector, Mr. F orbes, in the third 
decade of the present century, that is, more than fifty years since. It is, without — 
doubt, one of the finest of the species, and when well grown forms @ noble Plant, its 
long spikes of attractive flowers, in company with its bold and characteristic foliage 
and its majestic habit of growth, imparting to it an aspect of dignity which no one 
can fail to recognise. Indeed, the magnificent appearance it has when placed on 
the central stage of the East India house is quite sufficient to win for it the fav ur 
of Orchid fanciers, 
Wherever space can be given to it, it ohdeita always be grown, as it blooms . 
during the winter months and continues in perfection for many weeks longer than 
‘ny other of its family that has come under our notice. Our drawing was taken 
from. a very fine specimen, producing three well developed spikes, in the collection 
of D. B. Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks, Bent, who is a great lover of Orchids, 
and is forming a nice collection of them. 
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