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14 NEW PLANTS OF J. VEITCH & SONS' OWN INTRODUCTION.

ANGRAECUM KOTSCHYI.
See Woodcut, page 5.
A very rare East African Orchid, remarkable even among Angraecums for the curious structure of its ivory-white flowers, which are produced in pendulous many-flowered racemes, each flower with a very singular reddish spur, many inches in length. It was introduced by us through Dr. Kirk, Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar.

Professor Reichenbach, in giving welcome to this stranger to European gardens, writes :--

"The stem being short, it is quite an English plant, not taking up much precious room. So long as it has its twisted roots alone, and its very polymorphous spathulate unequally bilobed shining thick leaves, it may be overlooked, at least by a superficial observer. When, however, its flower-stalks appears, it becomes a dangerous rival to Angraecum Ellisii itself. The firm ivory- white flowers look much like those of A. Ellisii, but the long--often very curiously twisted--spur is different, and most remarkable by its length."

We received a First Class Certificate for this plant from the Royal Horticultural Society on the occasion of its being first exhibited, Oct. 12th, 1880.

A full-page illustration is given in the Gardeners' Chronicle for Nov. 27th, 1880. Price 105s. each.