Everybody who knows his "Darwin" is aware that Madagascar is the chosen home of the Angræcums. All, indeed, are natives of Africa, so far as I know, excepting the delightful _A. falcatum_, which comes, strangely enough, from Japan. One cannot but suspect, under the circumstances, that this species was brought from Africa ages ago, when the Japanese were enterprising seamen, and has been acclimatized by those skilful horticulturists. It is certainly odd that the only "cool" Aerides--the only one found, I believe, outside of India and the Eastern Tropics--also belongs to Japan, and a cool Dendrobe, _A. arcuatum_, is found in the Transvaal; and I have reason to hope that another or more will turn up when South Africa is thoroughly searched. A pink Angræcum, very rarely seen, dwells somewhere on the West Coast; the only species, so far as I know, which is not white. It bears the name of M. Du Chaillu, who found it--he has forgotten where, unhappily. I took that famous traveller to St. Albans in the hope of quickening his recollection, and I fear I bored him afterwards with categorical inquiries. But all was vain. M. Du Chaillu can only recall that once on a time, when just starting for Europe, it occurred to him to run into the bush and strip the trees indiscriminately. Mr. Sander was prepared to send a man expressly for this Angræcum. The exquisite _A. Sanderianum_ is a native of the Comorro Islands. No flower could be prettier than this, nor more deliciously scented--when scented it is! It grows in a climate which travellers describe as Paradise, and, in truth, it becomes such a scene. Those who behold young plants with graceful garlands of snowy bloom twelve to twenty inches long are prone to fall into raptures; but imagine it as a long-established specimen appears just now at St Albans, with racemes drooping two and a half feet from each new growth, clothed on either side with flowers like a double train of white long-tailed butterflies hovering! _A. Scottianum_ comes from Zanzibar, discovered, I believe, by Sir John Kirk; _A. caudatum_, from Sierra Leone. This latter species is the nearest rival of _A. sesquipedale_, showing "tails" ten inches long. Next in order for this characteristic detail rank _A. Leonis_ and _Kotschyi_--the latter rarely grown--with seven-inch "tails;" _Scottianum_ and _Ellisii_ with six-inch; that is to say, they ought to show such dimensions respectively. Whether they fulfil their promise depends upon the grower.