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good condition ; they are very distinct in appearance from 

 those of any other kind. This species is best grown in the 

 Cattleya house. — India : Bvmhay. 



YiG—Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 55 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4427 ; Hore de Serves, i. t. 13 ; 

 V. t. 438; m. IIoH., t. 123; Paxt. Mag. Bot., ix. 145. 

 Syn.— ^. Brookti. 



A. crispum Lindleyanuin, Hon. — A charming variety also 

 from India, with large branching spikes, bearing handsome 

 blossoms, of which the sepals and petals are white, and the 

 lip is large of a rich rosy pink ; it flowers in April and May. 

 The growth is similar to that of A. crispum, and it req^uires 

 the same kind of treatment. — Coonoor. 



Fig.— Wight, Icon., t. 1677. 

 Stn. — A, Lindleyanuin. 



A, crispum Warneri, Williams. — A splendid free-flowering 

 varielyfrom India. In its stems and leaves it closely resembles 

 A. crispum, but the habit of growth is more compact, and the 

 leaves are smaller and more slender ; the blossoms, which are 

 produced in June and July, are white and rich rose colour, 

 and they last from three to four weeks in perfection. — India. 

 St>'. — -4. Warneri. 



A. cylindricum. — See Aerides Vandaeum. 



A. Dominiaillini, Hort. Veitch. — A fine and very rare garden 

 hybrid, the produce of a cross between A. Fieldingii and 

 A. affine, producing rich rose-coloured flowers, of the colour 

 of those of ^. Fieldingii, but having the shape and markings 

 of A. ajfine. It is sometimes called A. Fieldinijii Jujbridum, 

 and is one of the most beautiful orchidic variations which have 

 been obtained as the result of judicious hybridising. — Garden 

 Hybrid. 



A. Ellisii. — See Aerides vikens Ellisii. 



A. Emericii, Fichb. f. — This new species is, according to 

 Prof. Eeichenbach, allied to A. virens, but is more elegant in 

 habit, and the leaves are longer and narrower than in that 

 species, being elongate-lorate, and bilobed at the apex. The 

 flowers are in drooping racemes, the sepals and petals white 

 with a broad purple-lilac stripe down the centre of each, and 

 the lip white with the middle lobe purple-lilac, and marked with 

 numerous small spots of the same colour on the interior 



