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regards the colour of its flowers, which last for a long time in 

 beauty ; it grows about a foot high, producing erect scapes 

 with nodding spikes of bright vermilion-orange flowers, which 

 are somewhat distantly disposed, and are peculiar for their 

 closed form ; it blooms in autumn and the early spring, and 

 is of a very durable character. — New Grenada. 



'FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5435 ; III. Hort., 3 ser., t. 167. 



A. COrnuta. — See Acropera armeniaca. 



A. Loddigesii, Lindley. — An old and not very showy species, 

 but an interesting one, as its flowers are very curious in their 

 formation both in the bud state and when fully developed ; 

 the pseudobulbs are ovate and clustered, and from their base 

 the drooping racemes of flowers are freely produced, the long 

 ovary curving inwards so as to bring the flowers near to the 

 rachis ; they are of a pale tawny yellow, with the lip broA^oiish- 

 red, and give out a powerful odour resembling that of wall- 

 flowers ; blooms during the summer months, but does not 

 last long. — Me.vico. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3563 ; Loddiges, Bot. Cab., t. 1645. 

 Syn. — Maxillaria galeata ; Gongora galeata. 



Ada, lAndley. 

 {Tribe VandeEe, subtribe Oncidiese.) 



A small genus of epiphytical plants bearing gay and showy 

 flowers. It is distinguished from Brassia by its free but 

 erect connivent perianth divisions, which are appressed below, 

 and spread only a little at the apex ; by the wingless column, 

 the base "of which is dilated, and united with the base of the 

 narrow undivided lip ; by the two lamellae of the lip becoming 

 confluent into a linear truncate appendage ; and by the 

 short obovate caudicle and circular gland of the pollen-masses. 

 There is but one species known, a native of the Columbian 

 Andes, where it is found at an elevation of 8,500 feet. 



Culture. — This handsome winter and spring Orchid is nearly 

 allied to Brassia. It should be grown in pots, in a compost 

 of peat and sphagnum moss, along with such plants as 

 Odontoyhssum Alexandra!., and should be treated in a similar 



