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bulbs to draw upon for support, it requires to be potted in 

 richer soil than many others. That best suited to it is good 

 rough fibrous peat and loam mixed together. The plants should 

 be grown in the cool end of the East Indian house, and must 

 have a good supply of water during the growing season, the 

 soil being also kept moderately moist when they are at rest. 

 They need plenty of light, but require shading during strong 

 sunshine. They are propagated by dividing the crowns, and 

 also by taking off and potting the young plants produced 

 on the stems. 



A. bamlDllScefolia, Lindlcy. — A fine evergreen terrestrial 

 Orchid, with reed-like stems, three to five feet high, producing 

 its flowers from the top of the stem about July, and continuing 

 to bloom for some time during summer and autumn. The 

 leaves are ensiform, pale green ; and the flowers, which grow 

 several together on a terminal spike, are large, with pale 

 magenta rose sepals and petals and a rich rose lip striped 

 with orange lines on each side the white throat. — India : Nepal, 

 Burmah, d'c. 



Fig.— Griffith, Not. PI. Asiat,, iii. t. 814 ; Wight, Icon. PI. Ind. Or., v. t. 

 1661 ; Orchid Album, iii. t. 139, 



Syn. — Cymbidium bambusifolium ; Bletia graminijolia, 



A. densa, Lindley. — An attractive species, with stems three 

 feet high, clothed with lanceolate subequal stem-sheathing 

 leaves, and bearing a close terminal head of handsome rosy- 

 violet flowers, with a crimson-bordered lip; these flowers are 

 as large as those of A, hmnhnso'folia and sweet-scented. — 

 Singapore. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 38. 



Asp ASIA, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Vandeas, subtribe Oncidieas.) 



This is a small genus of epiphytes containing plants of 

 dwarf habit. The pseudobulbs are broad and oval, and, like 

 the leaves, dark green. The flowers are in racemes on 

 axillary peduncles ; the sepals are spreading, and at the back, 



