Tab. 5501. 

 ACROPERA Armeniaca. 



Apricot-coloured Acropera. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 3563.) 



Ackopera Armeniaca; racemo laxo multifloro, sepalis apiculatis lateralibus ob- 

 liquis apice rotundatis, petalis liberis columna duplo brevioribus, labello 

 calceato carnoso apice libere ovato piano acuminato intus pone basin crista 

 tuberculata aucto. Lindl. I. c. 



Acropera Armeniaca. Lind. in Paxt. Mow. Gard. cum xylo. v. 1. p. 140. 



Although introduced to our collections about the year 1850, 

 no coloured representation has yet appeared of this beautiful 

 plant, which is by far the most ornamental species of the sin- 

 gular genus to which it belongs. It was discovered by Warsze- 

 wicz in Nicaragua, and was probably distributed under the 

 hammer of Mr. Stevens soon after its arrival in this country, but 

 it is still exceedingly rare. Indeed, but for the care bestowed 

 upon the plant at Oulton Park, where it originally flowered, 

 and from whence, through the kindness of Sir Philip Egerton, 

 my own specimens were derived, it would in all probability ere 

 this have been lost to our gardens. Nothing can be simpler 

 than its cultivation, but it requires a pot and a fair amount of 

 heat, and, being a rapid grower, it should be broken up, like 

 the Gongoras and Stan/iopeas, every second or third year. It 

 flowers abundantly during the summer months. There is a 

 great family likeness among the Acroperas, and therefore, al- 

 though botanically distinct, it is not desirable to attempt to cul- 

 tivate them all. Where a selection is made, A. Batemanni and 

 A. Armeniaca are decidedly the best, and of these two the last is 

 brighter in its colouring, and larger and handsomer in all its 

 parts. — /. B. 



Fig. 1. Side view of a flower. 2. Front view of a column. 3. Front view 

 of the labellum : — magnified. 

 march 1st, 1865. 



