ANGRAICUM KOTSCHYI. 
[Puate 179. ] 
Native of East Tropical Africa. 
Epiphytal. Stems short, stout, producing thick fleshy roots from their base. 
Leaves few, distichous, sessile, equitant, broadly ligulate-spathulate, nearly two inches 
wide, unequally bilobed, leathery in texture, and of a dark shining green. Scape 
radical, dull green, stout, jointed, with dark brown triangular bracts almost encircling 
, and ending in a very short point; racemes many-flowered, pendulous, the 
flowers proceeding from the axils of the bracts, with ovaries of a pale reddish or 
warm cinnamon tint an inch and a half long. Flowers about an inch and a half 
across, with a remarkably long. spur; sepals creamy white, the dorsal one short 
ovate projected forwards, the lateral ones narrower and longer, narrow lanceolate, 
tapering to the base, all acute; petals creamy white, rather longer than the dorsal 
sepal, oblong acute with a broad attachment; lip obovate pandurate, that 1s ovate 
in front, with raised incurved edges, apparently emarginate from the retroversion of 
the apiculus, the edges recurved in the basal half, narrowed to the width of the 
mouth of the spur. Spur eight inches long, more or less spirally twisted, slender, 
ot a pale tint of cinnamon-red, with an open mouth where it joins the base of 
the lip. Column short, thick, whitish, with a broad stigmatic hollow. 
- ANcrzoum Korscuvt, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., xiv., 456; 
d. 693, fig. 131; Williams, Orchid Growers’ Manual, 6 ed., 118. 
Ancracum Grant, Bateman, fide Reichenbach. 
The species we now bring before our subscribers is one of the most graceful 
and beautiful of the Angrecs, of which genus many have been lately introduced. 
Our collectors are more fortunate than they were a few years ago in sending them 
home, which is no doubt owing to the better shipping arrangements seeps 
available, besides which, collectors themselves get about with greater facility than 
formerly - We remember the late Rev. W. Ellis going to Madagascar seeds . 
bring home Some plants of Angrecum sesquipedale, A. Ellisii, and others ; Ged 
to be carried a long way on men’s backs, to the coast, and when there they 
had to wait for a vessel by which to get them home; all this was very slag to 
the Plants, as they have no thick succulent bulbs to support — nS 9 
consequence of being a long time on the voyage they nearly all perished. : nks 
: og trading merchants, we have now better facilities oa pie Bid eget a 
and we may expect many beautiful and new species to be in this way added tc 
ur collections. 
