the present plant belongs, which, combined with the diffi- 

 culty of obtaining them, renders them peculiarly valuable 

 to the cultivator, and causes them to be eagerly sought 

 after. Aerides ctffine was sent to the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 dens of Kew by Dr. Wallich, from the mountains of Nepal, 

 near Sheopore. It had been previously found in Sylhet by 

 Dr. Roxburgh. Our plant, however, graceful and elegant 

 as it is, is very inferior to the native specimen represented in 

 Dr. Lindley's splendid " Sertum Orchidaceum," from a 

 drawing in the possession of the Honourable the Court of 

 Directors of the East India Company. In another respect 

 too, it differs : the racemes of flowers are there represented 

 erect : with us, the flowers, and indeed the leaves too, are 

 drooping. In the Orchideous stove it blooms in April. 



Descr. Epiphyte. Roots large, thick, fleshy. Leaves 

 strap-shaped, distichous, channelled, obtuse, or more fre- 

 quently notched at the apex. Raceme from the axil of one 

 of the leaves, pendent, many-flowered. Flowers purplish 

 rose colour, spotted. At the base of the flowers is a small, 

 acute bractea. Sepals obovate, obtuse. Petals nearly of 

 the same shape, but smaller : all of them spreading. Lip 

 larger than the sepals or petals, ovate, crisped or waved, 

 the sides curved down : its claw curved at an angle, and 

 prolonged into an obtuse spur. Column short, bent 

 backward, semiterete, looking, when surmounted by the 

 acuminated anther-case, like the head and beak of a bird. 



Fig. 1. Lip and Column: — magnified. 



