ACKOPEEA. 



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A. Humboldtii Straminea, Hort. — An interesting variety 

 ■with the flowers of a pale straw yellow, with very few spots. — 

 ?iew Grenada. 



A, superba. — See Acineta Humboldth. 

 A. Warscewiczii. — See Acineta densa. 



ACEOPEEA, Lindley. 



{Tribe Vandese, subtribe Cyrtopodiese.) 



A genus of epiphytal plants bearing long loose racemes 

 of large and curiously-shaped flowers. They are so nearly 

 related to Gongora, as to be included in that genus by 

 some of our highest authorities on Orchids, the chief difier- 

 ences consisting in the broader sepals, of which the doi*sal is 

 galeate ; in the often biaristate tips of the petals, and in the 

 articulated oscillating lip. The species are few in number, 

 and are confined to Central America and Mexico. 



Chdture. — These plants are nearly related to Gongora, and, 

 like those of that genus, comprise species that are both pretty 

 and curious. The flowers of those here described are large, 

 and produced in great profusion ; they do not thrive under 

 cool treatment, which suits some other species, but they thrive 

 best in the Cattleya house, grown in baskets, with sphagnum 

 moss and fibrous turfy peat. 



A. armeniaca, Lindley. — A free-growing and somewhat 

 slender plant, attaining about a foot in height, with somewhat 

 oval pseudobulbs, producing from their apex a pair of lanceo- 

 late light green leaves, and from the base a slender drooping 

 lax raceme a foot or more in length, bearing from twelve to 

 twenty rich apricot-coloured flowers on a greenish purple 

 rachis ; blooms freely through the summer months, and is a 

 very desirable plant for a basket. — Central America : Nica- 

 ragua. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6501 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 94, fig. 66. 

 Stn. — Acropera cornuta ; Gongora armeniaca. 



A. aurantiaca, Lindley. — A beautiful evergreen species, of 

 neat compact habit, one of the most distinct of its family as 



