32 ORCHIDS. 
flowered in England in 1842. It should be grown in an 
intermediate temperature. 
Fig. 4; Botanical Magazine, t. 4427. 
Fig, 4. Flower of Aérides crispum 
(nat. size). 
Several varieties of this plant are in cultivation, the best 
of which are as follow: 
Var. Lindleyanum has large, much-branched panicles of 
flowers, with white sepals and petals, and a large, bright, 
rich rose-coloured lip; Var. Warneri has a slender stem, 
the short leaves are dark green, and the sepals and petals 
white, with a rich rose-coloured lip. 
A. Emerici.—A recently-introduced plant, with the habit 
and general characters of A. virens, but the leaves are 
longer and narrower, and two-lobed at the tips. The flowers 
are white and rosy lilac, of medium size, and they are 
borne in drooping racemes. It is elegant, but not so 
handsome as many other Aérides. It flowers in the late 
autumn. Introduced from Burmah in 1882. 
A. expansum.—A dwarf kind, with recurved, channelled, 
light green leaves, and unbranched spikes of white and 
rose-purple flowers. The lip is large and projecting, deeper- 
coloured on the middle lobe, and the spur is rather large 
and incurved. For small houses this plant is well adapted, 
