AERIDES. 107 



A, odoratuni COrnutum, Hon., is a handsome free-flowering 

 variety distinct in growth from the preceding. Its floral 

 racemes are about twelve inches long, furnished with pink and 

 white flowers, which are produced in May, June, and July, 

 and continue for upwards of three weeks in bloom. — India. 



A. odoratum riiajus, Hon., is like A. odoratum in its growth, 

 and difiers only in the larger and longer spikes of flowers ; it 

 makes a fine exhibition plant, and may be retarded very 

 easily without the slightest injury. — India. 



'ElG.—Gartenfl., viii. t. 273. 



A. odoratum purpiirascens, Hort., is a somewhat^ scarce 

 variety, and one of the very best. It is robust in habit, with 

 broad dark green leaves, and is a free bloomer, producing long 

 massive racemes of large flowers, which are white, tipped 

 with bright pink ; it blossoms during May and June. — India. 



A. pachyphyllum, BM. f. — A fine plant, imported along 

 with A. crass(folium . It has short very thick fleshy leaves, 

 blunt and unequally bilobed at the apes, and short racemes 

 of handsome hght crimson-lake flowers, of which the sepals 

 and petals are oblong-ligulate, the spur and column white, and 

 the small insignificant lobes of the lip painted with purple. — 

 Burmah. 



A. quinquevulnerum, Lindley, — A splendid free-flowering 

 Orchid of free habit, less compact-growing than many other 

 species ; the ligulate leathery light green leaves are rounded 

 and obliquely emarginate at the apex, with a small inter- 

 jected apiculus. The racemes are pendent, densely flowered, 

 longer than the leaves, the flowers having the sepals and 

 petals white, spotted with rosy purple, and marked with 

 five deep rosy purple spots at the tips ; the tip of the lip 

 is green, the sides pink, and the middle a deep crimson : 

 it blooms in July or August, and lasts two or three weeks in 

 bloom. There are several varieties, some with much richer 

 coloured flowers than the others. This plant was formerly 

 extremely rare, but it has recently been imported in large 

 quantities, so that cultivators will now have an opportunity 

 of testing the beauty of this distinct Aerides — Fhilijipine 

 Islands : Manilla. 



'FiG.—Lindl Sert. Orch., t. 30 : Faxt. Mag. Boi., viii. 241 ; Jennings, 

 Orch., t. 30. 



