98 orchid-glower's manual. 



A. EBURNEUM VIRENS, Hook. — A free-flowering variety, the flower spikes 

 of which, are not so stiff, and are therefore more graceful, than those of 

 A. ebwmeum. The plant has dark green foliage, about ten inches long, and the 

 blossoms have green sepals, petals, and spur, with the cordiform cuspidate lip 

 white, greenish down the centre ; they are smaller than those of A. ebumeum 

 itself, and are in perfection during December and January. — Madagascar. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5170 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 25, figs. 9, 10 ; V OrcMdophile, 1884, i. 

 p, 72. 



Stn. — A. virens; A. eburneum, Hiouars — ^f. Echb. A. Brongniaiiuirmm (_Pescatorea , 

 t. 16) ia, perhaps, the same plant. 



A. EICHLERIANUM, Kranzlin. — A well-marked plant related to A. infundi- 

 huliforme. It has tall leafy stems, furnished with elliptic obliquely obtuse 

 leaves, and bears large solitary flowers, the sepals and petals of which are 

 lance-shaped, light green, and the large helmet-shaped obcordate lip is white, 

 with a triangular apiculus in the notch, and an erect conical spur, as long as 

 the sepals. — Loango, W. Africa. 



Fia.—Garten-ZoUung, 1882, 434, fig. 102. 



A. ELLISII, Williams. — This beautiful species was introduced to this country 

 by the late Bev. W. Ellis, whose name it bears, and is undoubtedly one of the 

 finest species we have in cultivation. The leaves are distinctly arranged in a 

 distichous manner, and about ten inches in length, broadly ligulate, dark green 

 on the upper side, paler below, and deeply and unequally bilobed at the apex. 

 The flowers grow in arching racemes two feet long, bearing from eighteen 

 to twenty-four flowers, pure white and very fragrant, the sepals and petals 

 reflexed, and the spur of the lip of a light cinnamon colour and six inches long. 

 The profile of the flower is an exact resemblance of a cockatoo. It requires 

 the temperature of the East Indian house. — Madagascar 



Fig. — Floral Mag., U.S., t. 191 ; Gard. Citron., N.s., iii. 277, fig. 54 ; Lindenia, ii. 

 t. 92 ; Warner's tiel. Orch. PL, ili. t. 26. 



A. FALCATUM, Lindley. — This is a very elegant compact-growing species, 

 with narrow dark-green leaves ; the flowers are freely produced, very fragrant, 

 pure white, and furnished with a very long spur. This species requires excep- 

 tional treatment as to heat, since it succeeds in a much lower temperature 

 than the other Angraecums. — Japan. 



Fig.— ^oi. Mag., t. 2097. 

 Syn. — Oeccoclades falcata. 



A. FASTUOSUM, Bchh. f. — ^A fine new species very distinct in character, 

 with cuneate-oblong leaves, three inches broad, blunt and unequally lobed at the 

 end, very rugose on the surface, and with a cartilaginous margin ; the flowers 

 are numerous, in racemes, equalling those of A. caudatum, of a fine ivory white, 

 with ligulate-oblong sepals and petals, an obovate lip, and a filiform' spur 

 two to three inches long. The flowers have the fragrance of tuberoses. — 

 Madagascar. 



Fig.— -Bof. Mag., t. 7204 ; Ga7-d. Cliron., N.S., 1885, xxiii. p. 533, fig. 96 ; VeitclCs 

 Man. Orch. PI., vii. p. 130 ; Journ. Hort., xxiv. 1892, p. 311, f. 53. 



