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white, and haviug two purple lines running through the 

 centre, accompanied by two purple blotches ; the spur, which 

 is projected in front, is orange-coloured with numerous small 

 purple spots. — Eastern Asia. 



A. roseuni, Loddiges. — A handsome profuse-flowering 

 species of slow growth, but reaching two to three feet high, 

 with light green foliage a foot long, truncate and toothed at 

 the apex, and long branching spikes of white flowers tinted 

 with rosy magenta, the rhomboid lip deeper in the centre, 

 and twice as long as the ovary. We have seen the flower 

 spikes two feet long, with three or four branches on each 

 spike ; it is a profuse bloomer, and has been exhibited with 

 from thirty to forty spikes. It makes one of the finest of 

 exhibition plants, flowering about June and July, and con- 

 tinuing in blossom for three or four weeks. — India. 



FiG.—Faxt Fl. Gard., t. 60 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4049 ; Lem, Jard. Fl, ii. 

 t. 200 ; Id. lllust. Eort., t. 88 ; Gartevfl., t. 267. 

 Stn.— ^. affine, Hook, et Hort. 



A. roseiim Sliperbum, Moore. — This is a splendid variety 

 of the preceding, the colour being richer and the flowers much 

 larger. The plant is more compact in growth, and is of a 

 free-flowering habit, producing a long branched spike. 



^iGr.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, 3 ser. t. 22. 



A. rubrum. — A very nice cool-house species, with dark 

 green foliage ; a very distinct plant, not so showy as many 

 of the preceding ones, but well worth growing ; indeed, any 

 one that can appreciate Saccolahhim aiiqndlaceum would like 

 this, the colour being similar and the spikes longer. This 

 plant should be grown in the Odontoglossum House. ■ — 

 Madras Hills. 



A. Scliroderi. — See Aekides maculosum Scheoderi. 



A. SUavissimum , Lindley. — A distinct and desirable species 

 of free growth, having light green foliage ten inches long, 

 spotted with brown, and very long drooping spikes of deli- 

 ciously fragrant flowers, of which the sepals and petals are 

 white tipped with rosy pink, the incurved spur tipped with 

 deep rose, and the lip, which has a very small bifid middle 

 lobe, has a blotch of pale lemon-yellow in the centre. The 

 blossoms are developed in July, August, and September, and 

 last in good condition for three weeks. We have flowered 



