JANUARY, 1917.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 9 
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ge genus Angreecum contains a number of very distinct and graceful 
species, characterised for the most part by the pure white flowers and 
ANGRAECUM BILOBUM. 
the elongated spur ofthe lip. A form of A. bilobum is shown in the annexed 
figure, which represents a plant in the collection of J. J. Neale, Esq., of 
Penarth, and is reproduced from a photograph taken in September last by 
Miss Muriel Neale. The plant is said to have been sent from British East 
Africa or Uganda, and is grown ina fairly warm house. A. bilobum originally 
flowered in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney, in 1840, and was 
described and afterwards figured by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 1840, Misc. p. 69; 
1841, t. 35). The original plant came from Cape Coast Castle, but the species 
Fig. 1. ANGR#CUM BILOBUM. 
has since been collected in other localities in West Africa. A. apiculatum, 
Hook., Bot. Mag., t. 4159, is regarded as a form of the same. Some forty 
years later a plant sent from Zanzibar by Sir John Kirk was described as 
A. bilobum, var. Kirkii, Rchb. f., but this is characterised by the very 
narrow leaves and few-flowered scapes, as may be seen in the Orchid Album, 
figure (iv. t. 162). It is now known as A. Kirkii, Rolfe. The present one 
is nearer to the original A. bilobum, and represents an interesting extension 
of its geographical area. There are other western species that extend 
through the forest region to Uganda, and among them the remarkable A. 
infundibulare, Lindl. A. bilobum is rather rare in cultivation at the 
