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THE EOSY AIE-PLANT. 
(AEraDES KOSEUM.) 
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A Hothonse Epiphjtefrom the East Indies, belonging to the Nahtral Order of Ouciiios 
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THE ROSY AIR-PLANT.— Leaves coriaceous, channelled, 
distichous, blunt and two-Iobed at the point. Spikes 
dense, returved. Sepals, as well as the petals, which are 
longer and narrowed at the base, acute. Lip lozenge- 
shaped, acuminate, fiat, entire, with a short conical 
incurved spui\ Ovary three-winged, as long as the lip. 
AERIDES EOSEVM I foliis corlaceis canaliculatis disti- 
chis apice obtusia bilobis, spicis densls recur\ is, sepalis 
petalisque longioribus basi angustatis acutis, labello rhom- 
boideo acuminato piano integerrimo, calcare brevi conico 
incurvo, ovario trialato labelU longitudine. 
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Aerides roseum .■ Loddiges. A. affine ; Hooker in Botanical Magazine, t 4049, not of Wallicli. 
rrais noble plant occurs not nncommcmly in gardens under the erroneous name of Aendes affine, 
^ and has heenfiffured as such mi\ic Botanical Magazine. It is, however, essentiaUy distinct, as^-ill 
and has been figured as such in the Botanical Mag 
be shown presently. We first saw it, some years since, in th( 
whom a dark variety was marked No. 1530, India. Since 
collections. The specimen now figured was from Mx. Conrad 
time 
peculiarities of this plant are the following :— Its leaves are leathery. 
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channelled, and roundly two-lobed. 
and tapers to the point. The triangular, or rather tliree-wmged ovary, is as long 
finaUy the spikes are drooping, or curved below the horizontal line. 
On the other hand Aerides affine, of which wild specimens from Dr. Wallich, 
agreeing with the figure in the Sertum OrcMdaceum, are now before us, has truncated 
The lip is perfectly undivided, 
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