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P. Humblotii is a marvel of beauty rose-pink, with a great crimson labellum exquisitely frilled, and a bright green column. 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.
The priests soaked him with paraffin, and burnt him on a table perhaps their altar. M. Humblot himself has had awful experiences. He was attached to the geographical survey directed by the French Government, and ten years ago he found Phajus Humblotii and Phajus tuberculosus in the deadliest swamps of the interior.
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