AERANTHUS GRANDIFLORA. 
[Puate 514.] 
Native of Madagascar. 
Epiphytal. Stem erect, producing several distichous, ligulate, bright green leaves, 
which are unequally bi-lobed at the apex, six to eight inches long. Scapes nodding, 
one-flowered; peduncles thin, eight or nine inches long, invested with brown 
sheathing scales. Flowers measure about five inches or more from tip to tip of petals; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, canaliculate, ivory-white tipped with straw-yellow ; 
petals narrowly ovate lanceolate acuminate, of the same colour as the sepals; lip 
ovate acuminate, slightly recurved at the base, ivory-white suffused with pale yellow 
and tipped with straw-yellow; spur short, arched, slightly inflated towards the apex, 
yellowish green. 
A®rantHus GRrawnpirtora, Lindley, Botanical Register, t. 817. Lindenia, iii., 
t. 109. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th ed., p. 79. 
This rare species was first introduced from St. Mary's, Madagascar, in 1823, 
by the late Mr. Forbes, and was sent by him to the Gardens of the Horticultural 
Society, where it flowered in July, 1824; the figure in the Botanical Register 
was taken from that plant. There are only three species of Aéranthus known: our 
present subject, Aégranthus arachnites, and another form, 4. Leonis, introduced by 
M. Leon Humblot, from the Comoro Islands, and figured by us in this work in the 
fifth volume on plate 213. Doubt has been thrown upon the correctness of 
Reichenbach’s view in referring this last species to Aéranthus, the difference in 
Babit and the form of the spur being assigned as reasons for referring it by 
_ Preference to Angraecum. 
Aéranthus grandiflora is an evergreen species, producing distichous-ligulate she 
of a bright green colour; the flowers are produced singly from the axils mm 
leaves; a glance at our plate will perhaps give a_ better idea of the beauty of tt : 
Plant than any description. It should be cultivated either in a pot or basket ion 
sphagnum moss and a few lumps of charcoal and be well drained; the ma ; ia 
house is the temperature for it, and it should be suspended cat chia, d a 
should be taken to keep this plant well shaded from the suns Trays, an aa 
ae of Water ahold be given during the growing season, as having n 
Pseudo-bulbs, it very soon feels the want of water. 
