AERIDES. 39 
Both the type and the variety should be treated as stove 
plants. They like plenty of water always. 
A. roseum.—This is a robust-growing plant, and a pro- 
fuse blossomer. The dark green leaves are leathery, 
recurved, and channelled above, with a blunt, two-lobed 
apex. The raceme is pendulous, dense, and many- 
flowered, upwards of 1ft. in length. The sepals and petals 
are narrow, acute, and pale rose-colour, with darker spots; 
the lip is flat, entire, and acute, of a bright rose, and, 
like the sepals and petals, freckled with spots of a darker 
hue. This species is known to some as A. multiflorum, 
and in the ‘ Botanical Magazine”’ it is figured under the 
name of A. affine. Some authorities class it as a variety of 
A. affine. It is a native of the plains of Moulmein, Silhet, 
and other parts of India, and was introduced in 1840. It 
flowers in June and July. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4049. 
Var. superbum.—This has larger and deeper-coloured 
flowers, and the spikes are long and branching. 
A. suavissimum.—A distinct, robust-growing plant, which 
will attain a considerable height when well grown. The 
leaves are flaccid, some toin. long, light green, and profusely 
freckled with brown dots. The numerous flower-spikes are 
half-pendulous and branched, bearing a profusion of deli- 
ciously fragrant flowers. The sepals and petals are bluntly 
ovate, white, tipped or tinged throughout with deep lilac. 
The lip is three-lobed, the side lobes being oblong and 
serrated, and the middle lobe small and bifid; the whole lip 
is of a pale lemon colour, and the spur is rosy-red. This 
species flowers in June and July, and was introduced from 
the Straits of Malacca in 1848. It requires stove treatment 
all the year round. 
Var. aurantiacum is much handsomer than the normal form. 
