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AERIDES maculosum. 
Spotted Air-plant. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDACEÆ. $ VANDEZ. 
AERIDES. Bot. Reg. 18. fol. 1485. 
* Labello indiviso v. tantum auriculato. 
A. maculosum ; foliis coriaceis planis apice obliquis obtusis, racemis densis 
nutantibus subpaniculatis, sepalis subrotundo-oblongis, petalis confor- 
mibus dupld latioribus, labello ovato subundulato integerrimo basi 
utrinque unidentato tuberculo indiviso interjecto, columnà brevissimä. 
This is more like Sir Richard Brookes' Air-plant, figured 
at t. 55 of our volume for 1842, than any species in our gar- 
dens; but it differs in many important particulars. 
In the first place, the flowers are distinctly panicled, and 
not strictly racemose ; then they are smaller; moreover, their 
column is short, and the lip neither crisp, nor toothed, nor 
saddle-backed, but quite entire, and nearly flat. The little 
lobes at the base of the lip are also different ; in Sir Richard 
Brookes' they stand at right angles with the column ; here they 
are very small, and direct themselves towards the point of the 
lip. 
The colour of the flowers of this spotted Air-plant is much 
less vivid ; it has more the tint of the A. affine, has very little 
white, and both sepals and petals are spotted all over with 
light purple on a pale rose-coloured ground. 
The Air-plants divide into two very distinct. groups, of 
which this represents one, and the sweet-scented species (A. 
odoratum) the other. They are readily distinguished by the 
form of their lip, which, in the latter, is deeply cut into three 
or even five lobes of nearly equal length, while in the former 
group the lip is either not divided at all, or at the most has 
only a pair of ears or toothings at the base. Those who wish 
