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with purple crests ou the fleshy disk, and dotted with lilac ; 

 it blossoms during the summer months. — India, Ceylon. 



'FlG.—Bot. Mag,, t. 5138 ; Flore de.s Serres, t. 1452, 

 Syn. — A, testaceum; Vanda parviflora. 



A. "Williamsii, Warner. — A grand and distinct species 

 extremely rare in collections. The leaves are broad dark 

 green and drooping, and the racemes of flowers are produced 

 in great abundance, measuring from two to three feet in 

 length, and often becoming branched ; the colour of the 

 flowers is a pinkish white ; it blooms in June and July, and 

 makes a fine Orchid for purposes of exhibition, on account of 

 its free-flowering character, while from its delicate colour it 

 associates well with other kinds. This species first flowered in 

 the collection of the late C. B. Warner, Esq., of Hoddesdon. 



^IG.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, i. t. 21. 



AgANISIA, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Yandese, subfribe Cyrtopodiese.) 



A small genus of some half-dozen Tropical American 

 Orchids which have a close afiinity with Zygopetalum, but the 

 flowers are usually smaller, and the column is not prolonged . 

 at the base, but is apodous. 



Culture. — This plant is best grown in a pot, with peat and 

 good drainage. It requires a liberal supply of water at the 

 roots, and the hottest house. It is a very scarce plant, and 

 is propagated by dividing the bulbs. 



A. pnlcliella, Lindley. — A rare and pretty dwarf Orchid, 

 having a creeping rhizome, with very small pseudobulbs 

 at intervals, each furnished with a solitary oblong five-ribbed 

 leaf eight inches long, and producing from the base of the 

 bulb erect racemes of flowers an inch and a half across, 

 which are white, with a blotch of crimson at the base, and a 

 larger patch of yellow in the centre of the lip ; it blossoms at 

 diff'erent times of the year, and lasts two or three weeks in 

 perfection. — Demerara. 



Fig.— Bo^ Reg., 1840, t. 32. 



