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richer colour. The best variety we have seen bloomed with 

 Mr. B. Findlay, at the Manchester Botanic Gardens. The 

 spikes of this, as well as those of the species, are apt to 

 damp off at the ends before the flowers open — an evil which 

 is often caused by too much moisture having been given. It 

 continues a long time in perfection. — India. 



A. Brookei. — See Ai-:paDES crispum. 



A. cornutuni. — See Aerides odoratum. 



A. crassifolium, Parish andPichh.f. — This species is one of 

 the most beautiful of the genus, and has been called the king 

 of all the A'eriiles. The plant is very stout and compact in 

 growth, with thick coriaceous oblong obliquely-bilobed dark 

 green leaves, and long drooping spikes of amethyst-purple 

 deliciously fragrant flowers, which are produced in May and 

 June, and continue perfect for a very long time. The 

 flowers are amongst the largest in the family, and the bluntly 

 ovate projected middle lobe of the lip is of a deeper richer 

 purple than the rest of the flower. Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart., M.P., has been most successful in flowering this gorgeous 

 species, which is best grown in a basket suspended near the 

 glass. — Burmah. 



¥iG.— Warner, Set. Ornh. PL, 3 ser., t. 12 ; Paxt. Fl. Card., reissue, t. 1 ; 

 Card. Chron., N.S., viii. 492, fig.' 96. 



A, Cj'ispnin, Lindley. — Avery 

 beautiful free-growing species, 

 of stiff erect habit, sometimes 

 attaining from four to five feet 

 in height. The stem is stout 

 and of a purple colour, the dark 

 green leaves five to ten inches 

 long, blunt and obliquely bi- 

 lobed, and the flowers grow in 

 long drooping racemes larger 

 than those of any other species, 

 white, tipped with rosy pink, 

 deliciously scented, the lip 

 three-lobed and upwards of an 

 inch long, the middle lobe 

 fringed and almost wholly of 



a bright rose or sometimes a aerides cRisprji. 



deep rose purple. The blossoms, which are abundant, are 

 produced in June or July,_^and last two or three weeks in 



