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bilobecl at the apex, its stronger spur wliicli is more than four 

 times longer than the pedicels, its cuneate ovate acuminate 

 lip, and its shorter hairy column. The flowers, which are 

 white, are produced on a drooping many-flowered raceme, — 

 Madagascar. 



A. eburneiini, Thouars. — A strong-growing free-flowering 

 Orchid of noble aspect, with densely packed, broadly ligulate 

 obliquely bilobed distichous leaves, which are eighteen inches 

 long, leathery in texture, and of a light green colour. 

 The flowers, which have green sepals and petals and spur, 

 and a broad cordate cuspidate lip of ivory whiteness, are pro- 

 duced on upright racemes eighteen inches long ; it blooms 

 during the winter months, and if kept free from damp will last 

 five or six weeks in perfection, on which account it becomes 

 very valuable. 



'FlG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1522; Bot. Mag., t. 4761; Paxt. Mag. Bof., svi. 90 

 (woodcut) ; Gard. Ch-on., 1873, 217, fig. 46 ; Baietn. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, 

 t. Ill; Orchid Album, i., t. 41. 



Stn. — A. superhim, Thouars — f. Rchb, 



A. eblimeuin SUperbum, Hon. — A fine variety of ^. ehur- 

 neiim, brought home by the late Kev. W. Ellis, of Hoddes- 

 don. It is stronger in growth than the type, and the flowers, 

 which are ivory white, and very large, open about the same 

 time as those of A. chiirneum, and continue a long time in 

 beauty. — Madagascar. 



A. eburneum yirens, Tlooh. — A free-flowering variety, the 

 flower spikes of which are not so stifi", and are therefore 

 more graceful, than those of A. ehurneum. The plant has 

 dark green foliage, about ten inches long, and the blossoms 

 have green sepals, petals, and spur, with the cordiform cus- 

 pidate lip white, greenish down the centre ; they are smaller 

 than those of A. ehurneum itself, and are in perfection during 

 December and January. — Madagascar. 



'FiG.— B'd. Mag., t. 5170; Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 25, fig. 9, 10. 

 Stn. — A. virens; A. eburneum, Thouars — f. Echb. A. Brongniariianum 

 [Pescatorea, t. 16) is, perhaps, the same plant. 



A. EicMerianiim, Kramlin. — A well-marked plant related 

 to A. infiindihuliforme. It has tall leafy stems, furnished 

 with elliptic obliquely obtuse leaves, and bears large solitary 

 flowers, the sepals and petals of which are lance-shaped, light 

 green, and the large helmet-shaped obcordate lip is white, 



