DESCRIPTIVE LIST. 147 



Aerides. Loureiro. Epiphyte. 



Name from a-fip, the air. 

 A. Aerides affine. Sylhet .... Wallich. 



SYN. Epidendrum geniculatum. B. R., 1841. 



B. M., 4049, as A. 



roseum. 

 SertO., 15. 

 War. Orch., 21. 



A free flowering but slow-growing plant. Foliage light 

 green, a foot long flowers white and pink, spotted with 

 purple, blooming on long spikes in June and July, and 

 lasting three or four weeks in perfection. Unfortunately 

 it is destitute of fragrance. 



Aerides affine superbum and ntajus are fine varieties, 

 with larger and richer colored flowers. 



Aerides ampullaceum. SYN. of Saccolabium ampullaceum. 

 Aerides Brocket. SYN. of Aerides crispum. 

 Aerides cormitum. SYN. of Aerides odoratum. 



A. Aerides crispum. Bombay . . Pax. Mag.. 9, 145. 

 SYN. Aerides Brookei. B. R., 1841, 126. 



Fl. des Ser., i, 15. 

 I. H, 123. 

 B. R., 1842, 55. 



The finest species. The stem is purple, foliage dark 

 green, ten inches long. The perianth of the flower is 

 white, delicately tinted with purple toward the middle ; 

 the labellum is striped with pale purple, shading to the 



