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with light green foliage a foot long, and pink and white flowers, 

 produced on long branching spikes in great profusion. I have 

 seen spikes of this two feet long, with three and four branches 

 on each spike. It is a profuse bloomer, and has been exhibited 

 with from thirty to forty spikes. It grows from two to three 

 feet high, and makes one of the finest plants for exhibition, 

 continuing in blossom three or four weeks. 



A. affine superbum. — A splendid variety of the former, the 

 colour of which is richer, and the flowers much larger, and the 

 plant is more compact in growth. It is a free-flowering variety, 

 producing a many-branched spike. 



A. crispum. — A truly beautiful free-growing kind from 

 India, with purple coloured stem, dark green foliage, ten 

 inches long ; the blossoms, which are abundant, are white, 

 tipped with pink. Flowers in June or July, and lasts two or 

 three weeks in good condition. The spikes of flowers are long 

 and very distinct from any of the other kinds. 



A, crispum, var. Liindleyanwn. — A charming kind, with 

 a large branching spike, bearing blooms of a fine rich 

 colour about the same time as the species; sepals and 

 petals white, lip large, rich rose ; growth similar to that of 

 A. crispum. 



A. crispum,, var. Warneri. — A splendid fi'ee-flowering variety 

 from India. In leaves and stem it closely resembles A. crispum, 

 except that the leaves are smaller and more slender in growth ; 

 the blossoms, which are produced in June and July, are white 

 and rich rose colour, and they last three or four weeks in 

 perfection. 



A. cylindHcum. — A very rare and distinct-growing plant, 

 in habit resembling Fa/zc^a tei'es, but not so strong; the flowers, 

 which are produced in pairs from the axils of the leaves, are 

 as large as those of A. crispum, white and pink in colour. This 

 plant is called A. vandarum by Prof. Reichenbach, but it has 



