﻿November, 1904 ] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



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ANGFUECUM SANDERIANUM. 



AngRjBCUM is a large and very polymorphic genus which is almost 

 confined to Tropical Africa and the adjacent islands, and which contains 

 many very curious and several highly ornamental species, among which 

 latter the one here figured must be placed. It is a native of the Comoro 

 Islands, where it was discovered by M. Leon Humblot, and sent to Messrs. 

 F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, who flowered it in 1888. It was 

 described by Reichenbach under the name of A. Sanderianum {Gard. 



Fig. 47. Angr;ecum Sanderianum. 



Chron., 1888, i., p. 168), as an ally of A. descendens, Rchb. f., though 

 distinct in its shorter floral envelopes, rounded petals and lip, and the 

 column without a vestige of hairs. The latter, by the way, is still very 

 imperfectly known. A. Sanderianum is probably the geographical 

 representative of the Madagascar A. modestum, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag., t. 

 6693), which it very closely resembles. That it is a very graceful and 

 ornamental plant is evident from the illustration, which represents a plant 

 which flowered in the collection of G. Shorland Ball, Esq., of Wilmslow. 



