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Acacallis Cyanea, Lindley. — A very fine and distinct 

 Orchid with blue flowers, allied to Huntleya and Warrea, 

 but distinguished by its long narrow hypocbil, saccate and 

 five-lobed in front, its short three-horned mesochil, and its 

 concave epichil, which is ribbed at the base. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are ovate, one-leaved, the leaves are upwards of a foot 

 long and three inches broad, tapered below into a furrowed 

 petiole ; and the flowers, which are as large as those of 

 Odontoglosswn Pescatorei, grow in close erect five-flowered 

 racemes on peduncles about a foot long. The sepals and 

 petals are subrotund, apiculate, light blue, paler within, and 

 the lip light bluish purple with pale veins, the back and wings 

 of the column streaked with red. The blue of the flower is 

 almost pure. In habit the plant most resembles a creeping 

 Maxiliaria, forming a long rhizome between the pseudobulbs. 

 It should be grown on a block. — Brazil. 

 Sys. — Aganisia ajanea, 



Aeranthus Leonis, Bchh. f. — This meritorious novelty, 

 closely allied to AruircEcum, was discovered by Mons. Leon 

 Humblot. The plant is dwarf, and has peculiar sword-like 

 falcate leaves, very stout in texture, about a span long, closely 

 set on the stem, and not cleft except at the point of junction 

 therewith. The flowers remind one of a gigantic Angracum 

 articulation, and are pure white as in that species, the lip 

 being broad, concave and rounded. The racemes consist of 

 as many as seven flowers, the long spurs of which are funnel- 

 shaped at the base, filiform towards the apex, and appear to 

 be always twisted upwards. — Comoro Islands. 



Fig.— Gard. Chron. N.S., xxiv. 80, figs. 17, 18 ; Orchid Album, v. t. 213. 

 Syn. — Angrcecum Leonis. 



Aerides Ballantinianum, Bchh. f.—A fine Acrides in the 



way of ^4. suavissimum, but dwarfer, and having rather short 

 bibbed leaves. The dorsal sepal and the petals are white and 



