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This plant should not be allowed to get too dry at the roots 

 ■when at rest ; if so, it will die. — Central America. 



A. Friderici-ATlgllSti, Bchh. f. — A splendid and also a 

 free-gi-owiug species, very distinct from any other in cultiva- 

 tion. It attains a height of five inches, and has leaves two 

 and a half inches long and an inch and a half broad, the 

 ground colour being a dark velvety green, with broad orange 

 and green stripes down the centre, and covered with a 

 beautiful golden network. — Ceylon. 



Syn. — A. xanthophyUum. 



A. Heriotii, Hort. Williams. — This is a very strong-growing 

 species, with leaves three and a half inches long and two and 

 a half broad, of a dark mahogany colour, having reticulations 

 of a golden hue and well defined, and with a shadow of net- 

 work showing through the surface. — India. 



A. Meroglyphicum, Hort. Bull. — This neat-growing and 

 pretty species has small ovate-elliptic leaves of a dark green 

 colour marked with silvery grey blotches, hieroglyphic-like in 

 character. — Assam. 



A. intermediuin, Hort. Ang. — A fine distinct species, and 

 one of freer growth than some others. It grows three inches 

 high, and has leaves two and a half inches long, one and a 

 half inch broad, with a soft silky surface, the colour being 

 dark olive, striped and veined with gold. This will do well 

 without a glass, if in a warm house, and shaded from the 

 sun. — Ceylon. 



A. javanicum, Hort. Aug. — A species of less interest than 

 many others, but still worth cultivating on account of its 

 distinctness of colour. It grows four inches in height, and 

 has leaves about two inches long and one and a half inch 

 broad, of a dark velvety olive green ground colour, with 

 blotches of a lighter green and faint golden reticulation, the 

 under surface pinkish. The flower scape is a span high, 

 bearing a spike of small pink flowers. — Java. 



YlG.—BIume, Orch. Arch. Ind, t. 31, fig. 3; Belg. Hort., 1861, t. 18. 

 Stn. — Argyrorchis javanica. 



A. latimaculatum, Hort. Ang. — A distinct and free-grow- 

 ing kind, having dark green leaves with silvery markings ; it 

 will succeed well without the protection of a bell-glass in a 

 warm moist atmosphere. — Borneo. 



