[Plate 66.] 
THE SWEETEST AIR-PLANT. 
(AEKIDES SUAVISSIMUM.) 
A Hothouse Epiphyte from Malacca, belonging to the Natural Order of Okchids. 
^pcciffr Cljararttr. 
THE SWEETEST AIR-PLANT. Raceme horizontal, 
oblong, many -flowered. Bracts dwarf, ovate, scarious. 
Sepals and petals oval, blunt, very much spreading. Lip 
horned, ascending, pressed to tlie column, three-lobed ; 
its lateral divisions oblong, somewhat toothed, the 
intermediate one dwarf, linear, bifid, quite entire. 
AERIDES SUA VISSIMVM; racemo oblongo horizontali 
multifloro, bracteis nanis ovatis scariosis, scpalis petalisque 
ovalibus obtusis patentissimis, labello cornuto ascendente 
columnBG adpresso trilobo, laciniis lateralibus oblongis 
subdenticulatis intermedia nana lineari hifi<iA inte^Prrim.:^ 
Aerides suavissimum : Idndley in Journ. of HoH. Soc.y vol. iv., p. 264. A. flavidum : supra^ vol i., no. 372, a variety. 
THIS plant lias been introduced from tlie Straits of Malacca bj Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it 
first produced its flowers in June 1849. 
At that time it was described as being in general 
appearance similar to A. odoratnm, but in fragrance more balsamic and delicious. The sepals and 
petals were white^ with a lilac tip ; the lip was pale nankeen colour, with a lilac streak along the 
centre of the middle lobe. It was said to differ from A. odoratum in the middle lobe of its lip being 
emarginate and much longer than the laterals^ which are distinctly notched; and from-i. Quingiievulnera 
in its not being at all serrated^ as well as in its greater length. 
Since that time wc have had much finer specimens for examination from Mr. C. B. Warner^ two 
of which are now figured, and we find that the flowers acquire a very distinct blush, instead of the 
