Tas. 6728, 
AERIDES Eericu. 
Native of the Andaman Islands, 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEXZ.—Tribe VanDER. 
Genus Aeripes, Lour.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 576.) 
Arrives Emericit ; foliis elongatis loriformibus latiusculis crasse coriaceis apice 
bifidis lobis obtusis, racemo pendulo multifloro, rachi viscosa, floribus roseis 
longe pedicellatis, perianthio subgloboso segmentis incurvis obtusissimis, 
sepalo dorsali late obovato rotundato, lateralibus majoribus late ovato-oblongis, 
petalis obovato-oblongis sepalo dorsali paullo majoribus, labello in calcar 
infundibuliforme crassum incurvum abeunte lobis lateralibus rotundatis erectis 
terminali parvulo linguzforme inter lobos laterales recondito incurvo. 
A. Emericii, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. N. 8. vol. xviii. (1882, ii.), p. 586. 
As justly remarked by Dr. Reichenbach, Aerides Emericii 
is very closely allied to A. virens, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 
vol. xxxvii. tab. 41), a native of Java, which differs chiefly 
in its much larger flowers, with toothed lobes to the lip, 
and in the colouring, which consists of dark purple blotches 
on the tips of the white sepals and petals, and of pale red- 
purple spots on the lip. ‘The leaves are very similar both 
in size and in the lobed tip, and they are alike too in colour. 
A. Emericii was found in the Andaman‘ Islands, on the 
east side of the Bay of Bengal, by Lieut.-Col. Emeric 
Berkeley (son of the veteran botanist and horticulturist, 
the Rev. M. J. Berkeley), by whom the specimen here 
figured was flowered in May last, and kindly communicated 
for figuring. It presents the remarkable character of a 
glutinous secretion along the rachis of the raceme, the 
object of which may possibly be to prevent ants or other 
phytophagous insects from attacking the flowers. 
Descr. Stem stout, short, six to eight inches long, leafy ; 
aerial roots very stout, one-fourth of an inch in diameter 
and under. Leaves distichous, nearly a foot long and 
under, by one to one and a half inch broad, exactly linear, 
nearly fiat, coriaceous, nerveless, keeled, pale green, tip 
DECEMBER Ist, 1883, ; 
