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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[JaiUKiry, 1914. 



Angracum rectum, a rare Madagascan species. 



ANGR/ECUM RECTUM. 



THIS Angraecum is one of the beautiful 

 Madagascan species that have proved 

 so difficult and costly to import, and 

 although obscurely known to botanists ever 

 since the year 1822, it is very doubtful 

 whether another plant has ever before been 

 seen in flower in this country. The above 

 illustration shows the plant as flowered by 

 Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., by whom it 

 was discovered some three years ago in an 

 importation of various species received direct 

 from Madagascar, but, unfortunately, it was 

 the only one of its kind in the consignment 

 When exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 

 -Society, November 1 8th, 1913, it received an 



Award of Merit, under the name Angrascum 

 recurvum. 



The pure white flowers are carried on 

 slender pedicels produced, not from the axils 

 of the green leaves, but from the older and 

 leafless portion of the thick stem, and in this 

 peculiar manner of flowering it differs from 

 the great majority of other Orchids. This 

 fact alone is sufficient to induce interest being 

 taken in the plant. 



The specimen illustrated was cultivated in 

 a position where the bright light only reached 

 one side of the plant, consequently all the 

 flowers are attracted in one direction ; and 

 although some of the higher ones appear to 

 be produced from among the upper leaves, 

 they have, as a matter of fact, been brought 



