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consequently requires to be kept in the warm house. It 

 makes a good basket or block plant, and is in growth very 

 much like a PhaUenopsis. 



A. pertusum. — This is a very distinct and pretty species, 

 seldom to be found, however, in collections. It somewhat 

 resembles an Aerldes in its growth ; leaves long, rather 

 narrow, channelled above, fleshy and dark green. The spike 

 is pendulous, longer than the leaves, and densely furnished 

 with its pure white flowers. It blooms during the late 

 autumn and winter months. Native of Sierra Leone. 



A. sesqnipedale. — A wonderful plant, brought by the late 

 Rev. W.Elhs, of Hoddesdon, from Madagascar, where he found 

 it growing on trees. Foliage dark green, about ten inches long ; 

 blooms beautiful ivory white, and veiy large, with a tail or 

 spur hanging from the bottom of the flower, from twelve to 

 eighteen inches in length. I saw it well flowered by Mr. 

 Whitehead, gardener to R. Dodgson, Esq., of Blackburn ; on 

 a small plant not more than a foot high were three spikes, 

 each bearing four superb flowers. In blossom in November, 

 December, and January, and lasts three weeks in beauty. A 

 very beautiful-growing species, and certainly the finest of its 

 class. There are two varieties of this species, one having 

 larger flowers, and blooming later in the season. 



Anguloa. 



The flowers of this genus are large and beautiful, and the 

 plants make good subjects for exhibition, especially A. Cloivesii 

 and A. Paickeri, the colours of which, from being somewhat 

 difierent to that of most Orchids, render them more valuable. 

 The pseudobulbs are large, about eight inches high, with broad 

 flag-shaped leaves a foot or more long ; they all produce their 

 flowers, which are about twelve inches high, from the base of 



