THE ORCHID REVIEW. 49 
ANGRAECUM SESQUIPEDALE. 
ANGRAECUM SESQUIPEDALE is one of the most striking Orchids which our 
collections possess, on account of its large and handsome, pure white, wax- 
ated spur, and blooming, as it does, in 
hke flowers, and remarkably attenu 
The foliage is also handsome. Its 
the winter serves to enhance its value. 
character is well shown in the accompanying figure, which represents 
plant that bloomed in the collection of J. W. Arkle, Esq., of West Derby, 
a 
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Liverpool, at Christmas last. There were fourteen flowers, but 
been removed when the photograph was taken. The species had been 
known to science for upwards of thirty years, when the Rev. W. E 
855, succeeded in bringing some three plants alive, and one of them 
flowered in his garden at Hoddesden in the spring of 1857. It remained 
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