ANGRSECUM. 



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elegant racemes of white flowers with a yellow- 

 ish or straw-coloured tinge. Madagascar, 1865 



(70- 



eburneum. — A capital plant for amateurs with 

 plenty of room. Very large-growing, with thick, 

 strap-shaped leaves nearly a yard in length, and 

 stiff, many-flowered spikes. The flowers in the 



A. falcatum. — Interesting as being a native of 

 Japan ; no other kind is recorded from Asia. A 

 very small-growing plant, bearing racemes of pure 

 white fragrant flowers. Japan, 1813 (i). 



A. Leonis. — A fine species, with loose spikes of white 

 flowers. Comoro Islands (h). 



Fig-. 35. Anor/ecum Veitchi. 



type are greenish on the sepals and petals ; the 

 lip heart-shaped, inverted, pure white; var. super- 

 bum has flowers wholly white, while virens is 

 smaller in all its parts than the type. Bourbon 

 and Madagascar, 1832 (7i). 



Ellisi. — A large-growing, free-blooming plant, 

 producing arching spikes 18 inches in length, of 

 pure white flowers, varying in size even on the 

 same spike. Madagascar, 1854 (h). 



A. modestixm. — A small but lovely kind, bearing 

 pendant spikes of pure white blossoms. Madagas- 

 car, 1883 (//•). 



A. pellucid um. — A very fragile and beautiful flower, 

 described as "like melting snow" ; creamy white, 

 almost transparent ; plant very dwarf. Sierra 

 Leone, 1842 (h). 



A. petttsttm. — Flowers white ; very small, on stems 

 about a foot high. Bourbon, 184(» (7i). 



