120 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1913- 
ANGRAECUM EICHLERIANUM. 
Tuis distinct and striking Angraecum has been known for upwards of thirty 
years, having originally flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, Berlin, in 
1882, when it was described and figured by Dr. Kranzlin (Berl. Gart. Zeitt., 
1882, p. 434, fig. 102). It is said to have been introduced from Lunda, 
near Kassamba, in the gorges of the Loango River. Afterwards it was 
sent from the South Cameroons by Braun. For some years it remained 
rare, but in 1898 drawings of an Angrecum from Old Calabar, Nigeria, 
were sent to Kew by Mr. J. H. Holland, Superintendent of the Botanic 
Gardens, Old Calabar, and proved identical. They were accompanied by 
living plants, which flowered in 1goo, and the species was soon afterwards 
Fig. 27. ANGRECUM EICHLERIANUM. 
figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 7813). In 1896a plant that had been 
introduced from the Congo by M. S. Bieler flowered in the Brussels 
Botanic Garden, and was described and figured under the name ol 
Angrecum Arnoldianum (De Wildem. in Trib. Hort., i. p. 83, t. 6), but 
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proved identical with A. Ejichlerianum. The plant here figured 1s 
reproduced from a photograph Maen by Mr. E. Miethe in the Palmengarten 
Frankfurt, last July. The species has erect stems, bearing numerous aéria! 
roots, ovate-oblong, somewhat bilobed leaves, and axillary one- or two- 
flowered racemes of large light green and white flowers. The three spott 1 
leaves belong to an Aroid (Scindapsus pictus) that was growing behind. 
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