152 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ANGRAECUM SANDERIANUM. 
Tuis charming little plant is a native of the Comoro Islands, where it was 
discovered by M. Leon Humblot, and sent to Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of 
St. Albans. It flowered in 1888, and was described by Reichenbach (Gard. 
Chron., 1888, iii, p. 168), the author describing it-as a near ally of A. 
descendens, Rchb. f., though distinct in its shorter floral envelopes, rounder 
petals and lip, and the column without a vestige of hairs. It is still nearer 
to A. modestum, Hook. f., (Bot. Mag., t. 6693), and may even be a geo- 
Fic. 25.—ANGRECUM SANDERIANUM. 
graphical form of this Madagascar species. Messrs. Veitch who flowered 
the two contemporaneously in their collection, state that the flowers of 
both were identical, though the Comoro plant had broader leaves and 
longer racemes: than the Madagascar one (Man. Orch., vii. p. 135.) A. 
modestum, however, and two or three of its allies are stil] very imperfectly 
known, for which reason we have left the names as originally given. 
It succeeds admirably in a warm house, under the usual treatment given 
to the members of this genus, and the annexed illustration shows what it 
