ANGRAECUM. 99 



A, FRAGRANS, Thouars. — The leaves of this species in the dry state arc 

 said to have an odour similar to Vanilla, and to be used medicinally, leaves 

 lorate three to four inches long by about three-quarters of an inch wide, 

 flowers solitary about two inches across, white and fragrant. — Mauritius, 

 Bourbon. 



Fia.— Thouars' Orch. Africa, t. 51 ; Bot. Mag., t. 7161. 



A. FUSCATUM, Itdhh. f. — A handsome and distinct plant, having cuneate- 

 oblong leaves, blunt and unequally bilobed at the tip, and many-flowered lax 

 racemes of blossoms, of which the peduncles, ovaries, and bracts are cinnamon- 

 coloured ; the flowers, which are nearly equal to those of A. caudatum, have 

 ochre-coloured sepals, tyhite petals and lip, and a brown filiform floxuose spur 

 more than twice as long as the ovaries. — Madagascar. 



Fm.— Garten flora, 1886, t. 1231. 



A. GRANTII, — See Angeaecum Kotschyi. 



A. GERMINYANUM, Hort. Sander. — This beautiful species was discovered by 

 M. Leon Humblot, together with Phajus tuherculosus and P. Humhloti in 1886, 

 and flowered for the first time at Kew, in May, 1888. The flowers are pure 

 white, solitary on short stalks ; sepals 2^-3 inches long, sepals somewhat' 

 shorter ; lip quadrate 1 inch broad and nearly as long ; anterior margin con- 

 tracted in the middle into a recurved thread-like tail, 1 inch long. Named in 

 honour of M. le Oomte A. de Germiny, of Gouville, near Kouen, who owns one 

 of the finest collections of Orchids iu France. — Madagascar. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 7061. 



A. HILDEBRANDTII, Rchh. f. — An elegant but very small-growing plant with 

 lignlate unequally bilobed leaves and spreading lax racemes of yellow-orange 

 flowers, having an oblong-acute lip and a filiform clavate spur shorter than 

 the ovary. — Comoro Isles. 



A. HYALOIDES, Bchb.fil.—A striking and pretty little species with star- 

 shaped white flowers, which are produced in great profusion 12 to 15 on a 

 spike. — Madagascar. 



FlQc.—L'OrcUdophlle, 1889, p. 347 ; Xenia Orchidacea, iii. t. 238. 



A. KOTSCHYI, Bclib.f. — One of the most distinct of the newer Angraecuma, 

 and one of small dimensions, flowering while young. It has broad polymor- 

 phous spathulate, unequally bilobed leathery leaves of a dark shining gi-een ; 

 and the flowers, which are produced in many-flowered pendulous racemes, are 

 creamy white, each with a pandurate lip, and a remarkable spirally-twisted 

 reddish spur several inches in length. It flowers in October.— Tropical- 

 Africa. 



Fia—6fard. Chron., U.S., xiv. 4.56; Jrf., 693-4, fig. 131; Z'OrcUdophlle, 1SS3, p. 

 796 ; Or'cJiid Album, iv. t. 379 ; Veltch's Man. Orch. PI., vii. opposite p. 182. 



Syn. — A. Grantii. 



A. LEONIS.— See Aeeaxthus Leo.vis. 



A. MODESTUM, Bbofc/.— A pretty small-growing species in the way of A. 

 apiculatum and A. bilohum, with elliptic-oblong subacute leaves, and pendulous 



