ANGULOA. lOr 



A. SESQUIPEOALE, Thouars. — A wonderful and noble plant of great beauty, 

 and certainly the finest species of the genus yet discovered. It was brought 

 to England by the late Rev. W. Ellis, of Hoddesdon, 

 from' Madagascar, where he found it growing on 

 trees. The stem is simple and rooting ; the leaves 

 close-set, distichous, leather3', oblong, blunt and 

 bilobed at the apex, keeled, and of a dark green 

 colour. The flowers are of a clear ivory white, and 

 very large, a foot across, with a greenish tail or spur 

 from twelve to eighteen inches in length hanging 

 from the flower. ' The peduncles are axillary and 

 bear from one to four of these fragrant gigantic 

 flowers, which are pi-oduoed in November, December, 

 and January, and last about three weeks in beauty. 

 There are two varieties of this species, one having 

 larger flowers than the other and blooming later in 

 the season. angkabcuh ses3uipedalb. 



Fid.— Bot. Mag., t. 5113; Gard. Chi\m., 1857, 233 (woodcut); I//. 1873, 2)3 

 (woodcut) ; Illust. Hurt., xiii. t. 475 ; Floir des Serves, tt. 1413 — 14 ; Wai'ner, Sel. 

 Orcli. PL, i. t. 31 ; Jennings, Orchids, t. 3 ; Vcitrk's Man. Orch. PL, vii. opposite p. 138. 



Syn. — A eranthus ses^uipedalis. 



A. SUPERBUM — See Angraecum EBuaNEUii. 



A. VIRENS. — See Angkaecum ebukseum virexs. 



ANGULOA, Buiz et Pavon. 



(Trihe Vandeae, suMribe Cyrtopodieae.) 



These are stately plants with large pseudobvilbs about eight inches 

 high, and broad plicate leaves a foot or more long ; their flower-scapes 

 are about twelve inches high, and issue from the base of the bulbs just 

 as they begin to grow. The flowers are large and beautiful, with thick 

 fleshy connivent sepals, which often give them a subglobular outline, 

 but though remarkably showy, they have no pretence to the graceful 

 beautjr which is the charm of most Orchids ; theirs, on the contrary, is 

 a solid, massive beauty, which is very effective in contrast with other 

 types. The plants make good subjects for exhibition, especially A. 

 Clowesii and A. Buclceri, which are all the more valuable from the 

 colour of their flowers, being somewhat diflerent from that of most 

 Orchids. The flowers have some fancied resemblance to a bull's 

 head, whence in its native home it is called El Torito. There are 

 several recognised species, natives of the Andes of Colombia and 

 Peru. 



