Tas. 4427. 
AERIDES crispum. 
Sir Richard Brooke's Air-Plant. 
Nat. Ord. OncutprE%.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 
Gen, Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4139.) 
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AERIDES erispum ; foliis planis apice obtusis obliquis bilobis racemis multifloris 
nutantibus duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque subequalibus obtusis, 
labelli maximi lacinia intermedia multo majore ovata retusa serrulata basi 
bidentata lateralibus erectis acutis nanis, caleare cornuto incurvo. Lindl. 
AERIDEs crispum. Lindl. in Wall. Cat.n. 7319. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 239. Bot. 
Reg. 1842. t. 55. 
Arrives Brookei. Batem. in Bot. Reg. 1841. 
A native of Courtallam, East Indies, whence I possess native 
Specimens from its discoverer, Dr. Wallich. Living plants were 
received at the Royal Gardens of Kew in 1845, but the 
plant had previously (in 1842) flowered in the collection of 
Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory. It is one of the 
most lovely of the very favourite genus. Aerides, and still I 
believe one of the most rare. Our plant differs slightly from 
that represented by Dr. Lindley in the more diffused purple 
tinge on the lip, and its more deeply cut edge, rather fimbriated 
than serrated. It flowered with us in July. 
Duscr. Stem flexuose, sending out large fleshy roots from 
below, leafy above. Zeaves articulated upon the sheath, ligulate, 
retuse or bifid and oblique at the apex, distichous, a span long, 
coriaceous, keeled at the back below. Racemes drooping on a 
long peduncle springing from the side of the stem below the leaves, 
many-flowered, large, very handsome. Sepals larger than the 
petals, otherwise like them in shape and colour, oval or obovate, 
white, tinged with rose. ip very large, 3-lobed, lateral lobes 
small, erect, ovato-obtuse ; middle one broadly ovate, fringed at 
the edge, 2-toothed at the base, there white, the rest deep rose- 
purple. Spur horn-like, slightly curved. _ Co/uma short, white. 
Pollen-masses two, on a long caudicle. W. J. H. ay 
Curr. This plant being a native of the hot and moist climate 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1849. 
