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a very long spur. This species is an exception to the rule in 

 respect to heat, as it succeeds in a much lower temperature. 

 Native of Japan. 



A. i^ellucidum. — A noble-growing plant, making bright 

 green shining leaves from a foot to a foot and a half long, 

 producing long spikes of white flower in winter, making it an 

 acquisition in that dull season. It is a native of Sierra Leone, 

 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 PhalcBnopsis. 



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

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

 resembles an Aerides in its gi'owth ; leaves long, rather 

 narrow, channeled 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. sesqidjmlcde. — A wonderful plant, brought by the Rev. W. 

 Ellis, of Hoddesdon, from Madagascar, where he found it 

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

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

 spm- hanging from the bottom of the flower, from twelve to 

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

 Whitehead, gardener to R. Dodgson, Esq., 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 Januaiy, and lasts three weeks in beauty. A 

 very beautiful-growing species, and certainly the finest of 

 its class. 



Anguloa. 



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

 plants make good subjects for exhibition, especially A. Clowesii 

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



