SUPPLEMENT. 
Aérides—continued. 
Parple lines, the large, elliptic front lobe entirely rose-purple. 
1885. A tine form. 
A. margaritaceum (pearly). 
Summer. /. spotted. India. 
way of A. maculosum. 
A. marginatum (margined). jl. densely packed on the rachis ; 
sepals and petals pale yellow, the anterior border purple; side 
lobes of lip semi-oblong, deep orange, the central one oblong- 
ligulate, toothleted, yellow, changing to sepia-brown; spur light 
green, conical ; racemes drooping. J. rather broad, lorate, bilobed 
pe eerenate, keeled on the under side. Philippine Islands, 
1885. 
fl. pure white, produced in spikes. 
A pretty species, something in the 
A. McMorlandi (McMorland’s). #1. white, spotted with peach- 
colour, freely produced in long, branched racemes. June and 
July. Jl. bright green, nearly lft. long. India. A fine but rare 
species. 
A. odoratum birmanicum (Birma). /. smaller than in the 
type; lateral sepals having a light purple line outside; middle 
lacinia of the lip purple, very narrow, with a few teeth at the 
margin; side laciniz apicular. 1887. 
A. o. Demidoffi (Demidoff’s). 1. white, large, forming a rich spike ; 
tips of the sepals, petals, and lip marked with purple; spur 
spotted with purple, and tipped with green. 1885. Stem. 
A. Ortgiesianum (Ortgies’). j., sepals and petals blotched and 
warted with purple ; side segments of the lip purple, the middle 
one white, blunt, bilobed, not serrated, the spur green, all dotted 
and barred red. 1885. This looks like a small A. quinque- 
vulnerum. 
A. pachyphyllum (thick-leaved). #. resembling those of 1. 
Thibautianum, few in a short raceme; sepals and petals light 
erimson-lake, nearly as large as in that species, oblong-ligulate ; 
laciniz of the lip small, painted with more or less warm purple ; 
spur prominent, and, as well as the column, white. Jl. very fleshy, 
short. Birma, 1880. 
A. quinquevulnerum Schadenbergiana (Schadenberg's). 
A variety of more compact habit, having shorter and broader 
leaves than the type. 1886. 
A. Reichenbachii cochinchinensis (Cochin China). /., 
inflorescence denser than in the type; yellow of the lip much 
deeper. Cochin China. A grand variety. 
A. Roebelenii (Roebelen’s). fl. very fragrant, the size of those 
of A, quinquevulnerum ; sepals and petals greenish-white, tipped 
with white ; petals often minutely toothed ; lip rosy, with yellow, 
oblong side lobes lacerated on the upper edge, as is also the much 
longer, oblong, curved middle lobe; spur short, conical; racemes 
erect, lft. long, about twenty-five-flowered. Philippine Islands, 
1884. Habit of A. quinquevulnerum. 
A. Rohanianum (Prince Camille de Rohan’s). /l., sepals whitish- 
rose or rose-mauve, always bordered white; lacinise of the lip 
white, with two purple lines running over the middle and purple 
blotches, the central laciniz nearly rhomboid, bilobed at apex, 
with some small crenulations, the side lacinize cuneate and 
retrorse ; spur sulphur or orange, with numerous purple spots, 
bent forwards ; inflorescence very long. 1884. 
A. Sanderianum (Sander’s). l. lin. across; sepals and petals 
creamy-white, tipped magenta, recurved at the margin; lip 
large, the upper half of the side lobes yellow, frilled at the edges, 
the middle lobe obovate, folded, magenta ; spur greenish-yellow 
at the end; racemes long. J. broad, short, retusely bilobed. 
Eastern tropical Asia, 1884. 
A. suavissimum maculatum (spotted). /. delightfully fra- 
grant ; sepals and petals white, profusely spotted with pink, as is 
also the lip. 
A, Thibautianum (Thibaut’s). ., sepals and petals rose- 
coloured; lip bright amethyst; raceme very long, with the 
flowers rather openly set upon it. Java. Allied to A. quinque- 
vulnerum. 
A. Veitchii (Veitch’s). 7. white, dotted with soft rose-pink ; 
racemes long, drooping, branched. June and July. /. 8in. long, 
dark green, spotted. Allied to A. ajine. (B. H. 1881, 8-9.) 
A. virens Dayanum (Day’s). A fine variety, with very long 
racemes. India. ~ 
A. v. grandiflorum (large-flowered). jl. white, spotted with 
pink, larger and more gracefully disposed than in the type. 
April and May. India. 
A. v. superbum (superb). . brighter, and spikes longer, than 
those of the type. India. 
A. Wilsonianum (Wilson’s). /., sepals and petals pure white ; 
lip lemon-yellow. A distinct, dwarf species, in appearance much 
resembling A. odoratum. 
AGALMA VITIENSIS. 
vitiense. 
AGANISIA. The half-dozen species of this genus are 
confined to tropical America. To those described on 
p. 35, Vol. I., the following should now be added: 
A. cyanea (blue). jl. rather small, in a short, erect raceme ; 
sepals and petals white, ovate, acute ; lip blue, roundish-cuneate, 
See Heptapleurum 
Aganisia—continued. 
undulated at the tip ; scapes slender. June. J. evergreen, form- 
ing a close, upright tuft, broadly lanceolate, strongly ribbed. 
Columbia. Syn. Warrea cyanea (B. R. 1845, 28). 
A. c. alba (white). 7. pure white. 1885, 
A. tricolor (three-coloured). 7. closely resembling those of 
A. cyanea, but the sepals are whitish on both sides, the petals 
are light blue, and the callus of the saddle-shaped, orange-brown 
lip is different in shape. Amazons, 1886. A fine Orchid. 
AGAVE. Upwards of 120 species have been described, 
but, according to Bentham and Hooker, not more than 
fifty are sufficiently distinct to rank as such; they are 
distributed over South America, Mexico, and the Southern 
United States. T’o those described on pp. 38-42, Vol. I., 
the following should now be added: 
A. Alibertii (Alibert’s). . lin. long, on short pedicels ; perianth 
tube greenish, funnel-shaped, the segments short, lanceolate- 
deltoid; peduncle (including the lax, simple raceme) 4ft. to 5ft. 
high. /., produced ones ten to twelve, lanceolate, denticulate, 
forming a rosette. Native country unknown. 1877. SYN. 
Alibertia intermedia. 
A. Baxteri (Baxter's). jl. disposed in a thyrsoid, loose panicle 
4ft. to 5ft. long; perianth tube yellow, sin. long, dilated at the 
middle; filaments Zin. to lin. long; anthers linear, 4in. long ; 
ovary cylindrical-trigonous, lin. long; peduncle 4ft. to oft. long 
before the flowers appear. March. 1. about thirty in a dense, 
sessile rosette, oblanceolate, about 1ft. long, and Jin. across at 
the widest part, the tip pungent, brown, shortly decurrent, the 
marginal spines spreading, hooked, deltoid-cuspidate, brown, 
about fin. long. Mexico (%). 
A. bracteosa (bracted). fl. in pairs, forming a dense spike; 
perianth segments about jin. long, the ovary slightly longer ; 
stamens about 2in. long; stem 3ft. high, the flowerless part 
densely covered with spreading or recurved bracts 5in, to 6in. 
long. J. ten to fifteen, broadly linear-attenuate, 14ft. to 1#ft. long, 
iin. broad at base, the margins minutely serrulated. Monterey, 
Mexico, 1883. (G. C. n. s., xviii., p. 776.) 
A. Henriquesii (Henriques’). /., perianth segments tinged dark 
brown, lanceolate, lin. long; style purplish-brown; panicle 
spike-like ; peduncle, including the inflorescence, 12ft. to 14ft. 
long. J. in a dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, bright green, 
margined with dark brown, 2ft. long, 5in. broad, narrowed to 
the base and to the pungent apex, armed with spreading prickles. 
Mexico (?), 1887. (G. C. ser. iii., vol. ii, p. 307.) SYN. Littea 
Henriquesii. 
A. Morrisii (Morris’). /., perianth bright yellow, 2in. to 2sin. 
long; stamens nearly twice as long as the segments; panicle 
thyrsoid, the main branches 1}ft. long; peduncle, including the 
inflorescence, 15ft. to 20ft. long. /. twenty or more in a dense 
rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, 6ft. to 7ft. long, nearly lft. 
broad, gradually narrowed to the pungent-spiny apex, dull green, 
the margins prickly. Jamaica, 1887. (G. C. ser. iii., vol. i., p. 549.) 
A. Villarum (Villa Brothers’). /. quite spineless, as in A. /ilifera, 
but much longer, more spreading, and less dense. 1886. An 
Italian hybrid between 4. jilifera and A. xylonacantha, the 
former being the seed-bearer. 
A. Wiesenbergensis (Wiesenberg). /l. erect, tubular, six-parted, 
ljin. long, disposed in clusters along the side of a long flower- 
stalk. Jl. 8in. long, 2{in. broad, upwards of jin. thick, oblong- 
lanceolate, mucronate, with remote, spiny teeth on the margins. 
1885. 
AGERATUM. This genus embraces about sixteen 
species of herbs and shrubs, natives of tropical or sub- 
tropical America, one being broadly distributed over the 
warmer regions of the globe. To those described on p. 42, 
Vol. I., the following should now be added : 
A. Wendlandi (Wendland’s). 
produced in abundance. J. cordate, dark green. 
Mexico, 1885. A dwarf, compact species. 
AGLAONEMA. About a score species—all tropical 
—are included here. Spadix sessile or stipitate; spathe 
straight, at length marcescent; peduncles fascicled. 
Leaves ovate- or oblong-lanceolate. To the species de- 
scribed on p. 42, Vol. I., the following should now be 
added: 
A. acutispathum (acute-spathed). #., spadix sessile, 1zin. long ; 
spathe light green, 3sin. long, ljin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, widely expanded; scape as long as the petioles. 1. 
6in. to 8in. long, 24in. to 3}in. broad, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, 
slightly oblique, rounded and slightly cuneate at base, the 
apex gradually attenuated into a tine point lin. long; petioles 
3in. to 44in. long, sheathing. Hong Kong (’), 1885. Nearly 
hardy. 
A.nebulosum (clouded). /. Sin. to 8in. long, lin. to 1}in. broad, 
oblong or obovate-oblong, obliquely cuspidate-acuminate at apex, 
fl. blue, with rosy reflections, 
Stems hairy. 
