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inches long. The flowers are borne on long drooping racemes, 

 and are of a light peach colour, spotted with purple, the lip 

 being spotted with crimson ; it blooms in April, May, and 

 June, the flowers remaining long in perfection. — Java. 



YiG.—Bot. Reg., 1844, t. 41 ; Paxt. Mag. BoL, xiv. 197; Orchid Album, 

 iv., t. 160. 



A. Tirens Dayanum, Hort., is a remarkably fine variety with 

 very long flower racemes, which bloom about the same time 

 as those oi A. virens itself. — India. 



A. Tirens Ellisii, Williams, resembles A. falcatum in habit 

 and appearance, but does not present the metallic blue tint 

 on its leaves, being of a somewhat pale green ; the leaves are 

 about six inches long and one and a half broad. The racemes 

 are eighteen to twenty inches long, bearing upwards of three 

 dozen large flowers, the sepals and petals of which are white 

 sufi"used with rose and tipped with amethyst, the lower sepals 

 being very round and broad ; the lip is large, its side 

 lobes white beautifully freckled towards the base with short 

 lines of amethyst, while the middle lobe is broad, deep rich 

 amethyst in colour, and the spur is stout, curved upwards, 

 and tipped with brown ; it blooms early in June and lasts 

 long in full beauty. — Java. 



Syn. — A. Ellisii. 



A. virens grandiflorum, Hort. , is a magnificent variety with 

 flowers larger than those oi A. virens, white spotted with pink, 

 and more graceful in their manner of growth ; it blooms 

 during April and May, and continues from three to four weeks 

 in beauty. — India. 



A. Tirens SUperbum, Hort., is another fine variety, the 

 growth of which is the same as that of A. virens, except that 

 the spikes and flowers are longer and of a brighter colour ; it 

 blooms about the same time, and remains long in perfection. 

 — India. 



A. Warneri. — See Aeeides crispum Wakneri. 



A. Wiglltianuni, Lindley. — A beautiful little plant, quite 

 distinct in character and resembling Saccolahium curvifoUum 

 in habit. The leaves are lorate, unequally bilobed with an 

 intermediate cusp, and short erect racemes of pale yellow 

 flowers, the broad oblong rounded front lobe of the lip white, 



