ANGRAZCUM BILOBUM KIRKII. 
[PuaTE 162. ] 
Native of the East Coast of Tropical Africa: Zanzibar. 
Epiphytal. Stems short, erect, rooting below, and bearing a few spreading 
leaves, which are distichous and evergreen. Leaves ligulate, broadest upwards so as 
to become subcuneate, equitant, furrowed, shorter than the racemes, deeply and often 
unequally bilobed with the lobes divergent. Scape bearing a few flowered raceme, 
radical, drooping. Flowers spreading, stellate, about two inches across; sepals 
lanceolate, attenuately-acuminate, an inch long, pure white, channelled; petals 
lanceolate acute, shorter than the sepals which are attenuately elongated, also pure 
white; lip about the same in size as the sepals and petals, oblong-lanceolate, more 
equal in width, that is more oblong than the other parts, and, like the sepals, 
drawn out to a fine point. Spur slender, terete, curved, two and a half to three 
inches long, pale reddish brown. Column short, white. . 
__ANGRaCUM BiLtopuM Kirk, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., 
xvill., 488; Walliams, Catalogue 1883, p. 24. 
Several new species have been added to this genus, and we are very glad to 
welcome them as they are such interesting objects, and so peculiar in the shape of 
their flowers, most of them having long tails or spurs hanging from the basal part 
of the lip. The flowers are usually of a waxy white, some of them being of large 
size, and the plants themselves are of handsome appearance, as, . for example, A. 
eburneum and A. sesquipedale, which are of majestic habit, with stately evergreen 
foliage as well as fine spikes of flowers. 
Our present subject is one of the smaller-growing and pretty kinds, of which 
there are several of considerable rarity being brought to our stoves. We are very 
glad to find that there are many growers taking to these smaller kinds, as well as to 
the larger ones; for the former take up but little space in the Orchid houses, and 
in themselves are very lovely. This gem was flowered at the Victoria Nurseries, 
having been sent to us from Zanzibar by Sir John Kirk, who has introduced several 
other new species, and in whose honour it was named by Professor Reichenbach. 
Angrecum bilobum Kirkii is a compact-growing evergreen plant with dark green 
foliage, nearly four inches long, and flower-spikes which are produced from the side 
of the stem, and are of drooping habit. The flowers are pure white, and they have 
tails nearly three inches in length. The present variety blooms in September, and 
lasts for some time in beauty. 
