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flowers, as large as those of A. afjine, which are white, with 

 the sepals and petals tipped with purple, and the triangular 

 projected anterior part of the lip also purple ; the spur is 

 slender, cylindrical, curved, and nearly as long as the stalked 

 ovary. — British India. 



A. Lindleyanum. — See Aerides crispuji Lindleyanum. 



A. LoTjbii, Hort. Veitch. — A free-flowering and handsome 

 species, producing long spikes of rosy pink and white blossoms. 

 The leaves are lorate, very leathery, channelled, obliquely 

 bilobed, of a light green here and there dotted with purple, 

 about eight inches long, and nearly two inches wide. The 

 flowers are very numerous, white, slightly tinted with soft 

 rose and faintly dotted towards the tips, the lip washed with 

 violet, the colour strongest on each side the white central line 

 of the broad ovate anterior part. Lemaire remarks that the 

 column and anther-bed have a striking resemblance to the 

 neck and beak of a bird. Altogether a very showy kind, and 

 one of our best Aerides for exhibition. There are several 

 varieties, many of them producing long branching spikes, and 

 making a fine display when in bloom. The finest specimen 

 we ever saw is in the select collection of J. Broome, Esq., 

 Didsbury, and has been exhibited by him on several occasions 

 at the Manchester Exhibitions. It flowers during June and 

 July. — Moulmein. 



YlG.—m. Hort., t. 559 ; Orchid Album, i. t. 21. 



A. Lobbii AinswortMi, Williams. — A very fine form of the 

 type, producing spikes about two feet long, which are well 

 branched ; the colour is very bright and more eflective than 

 in the type. It was first flowered by R. F. Ainsworth, Esq., 

 M.D., of Manchester, and was exhibited by his gardener, 

 Mr. Mitchell, at the Royal Horticultural Society's Show at 

 Preston. — Moulmein. 



A. niaculosmn, Lindley. — A stout dwarf compact-growing 

 Orchid of great beauty, having stiff broad obliquely- obtuse 

 dark green leaves, eight inches long, spotted with purple 

 on the outer side near the base, and producing drooping 

 branched racemes of pale rosy flowers more or less spotted 

 with purple, and having a large bright rosy-purple ovate- 

 obtuse wavy anterior lobe to the lip, which has besides two 

 small acute lobes at its base. These flowers are dehciously 



