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LarpentcB as to size and shape, but are entirely distinct in 

 colour, being pure white tipped with rose. — India. 



A. mitratum, Bchh. f. — A very distinct and charming 

 species of small stature. The stems are short, with abundant 

 thick aerial roots, the leaves being long (two feet) cylindric 

 attenuately-acuminate or whip-like, dark green, and the flowers 

 in numerous dense erect racemes, five to ten inches long, the 

 sepals and petals pure waxy-white, and the broadly truUi- 

 form obtuse lip rosy purple. A rare and elegant species. — 

 Mouhnein. 

 FlG.—Bot. Maff., t. .5728. 



A. multiflorum. — See Aerides affine. 



A. nobile, Wamcr. — A magnificent free-flowering fragrant 

 species in the way of A. suavisshmon, but with the flowers 

 larger and of a better colour ; we have seen racemes of this 

 plant from two to three feet long, and branched. The habit 

 of growth is vigorous ; the leaves are ligulate, obliquely 

 emarginate with an interjected tooth, and the racemes are 

 pendent and profusely flowered, the flowers being creamy 

 white, spotted and shaded with rose, the lip three-lobed, the 

 lobes of nearly equal length, the middle one tongue-shaped, 

 and bifid at the apex, and the long incurved ascendant spur 

 being yellowish ; it blooms in June, July, and August, and 

 keeps in perfection for three or four weeks. The flowers as 

 well as the rachides are clammy. — India. 



Fig.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI,, i. t. 11 ; Gartenfl., t. 641. 

 A. odoratum, Loureiro. — A good old species, of free-grow- 

 ing habit, and one of the most abundant flowering of the 

 genus. The leathery leaves are ligulate, keeled, pale green, 

 and obliquely obtuse at the apex. It blooms in tlune or 

 July, and remains two or three weeks in good condition ; the 

 flowers grow in pendulous rbany- flowered racemes longer than 

 the leaves, and are creamy white, blotched and shaded with 

 pale magenta, and have a delightful perfume ; the lip is 

 remarkable for its large upturned spur. We have seen 

 specimens five feet high and four feet in diameter, which 

 produced fifty to sixty spikes of bloom every year. It is 

 altogether a noble and very useful plant. — China, Cochin 

 China, and India. 



¥lG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1485 ; Bot. Mag , t. 4139 ; Knoicles and West, Fl. Cab., 

 t. 75 ; Maund, Botanist, iv, t, 186 ; Bort. Parad., ii. t. 4. 



Stn. — A. cornutum, Eosb. 



