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is pure white; they last in perfection nearly two months, 
and emit a most delicious fragrance all the time. For 
large tropical houses this is certainly one of the most 
desizaole ret Orchids; as it‘rarely-cets out of health, 
flowers regularly and abundantly, and is one of the most 
sweetly-scented. Native of Madagascar and the Seychelles. 
Flowers in winter. Syn. A. superbum. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4761. 
Var. virens has smaller flowers, the lip being greenish 
white. 
A. Ellisii,— A dwarf plant, with broad, tongue-shaped 
leaves, toin. long, dark green, bilobed at the apex. 
Flower-spikes arching, 2ft. long, bearing from eighteen to 
twenty-four flowers, pure white, very fragrant; spur 6in. long, 
hanging downwards. One of the prettiest of the smaller 
kinds, and one of the sweetest-scented. Native of Mada- 
gascar. Flowers in winter. 
Floral Magazine, t. 191. 
A. falcatum.—A small plant, with narrow, channelled 
leaves, and short racemes of small, white flowers, which 
are fragrant and lasting. Winter. Native of Japan. This 
little plant requires the temperature of a cool, moist green- 
house. 
A. Sanderianum.—A beautiful little plant, with shining 
green, tongue-shaped leaves, the margins tinged with red; 
length about 6in. Flower-spikes 1ft. long, drooping, and 
bearing two rows of snow-white flowers, 13in. across; the 
sepals and petals spreading, the lip triangular, and the 
spur 3in. to 4in. long. Flowering season, early spring. 
Native of Madagascar. This is a delightful plant, very 
free-flowering, the spikes graceful and the flowers lasting; 
it grows perfectly if placed along with Phalznopsis. 
