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represented by the present species in our collections ; it is 

 rather dwarf growing, evergreen, and in its native habitat 

 grows at an elevation of 8,500 feet ; nearly allied to Brassia, 

 it bears from ten to twelve orange- scarlet flowers, rather 

 closely set towards the apex of an erect or nodding spike, 

 from twelve to sixteen inches long ; its elongated petals are 

 streaked with black inside. The flowers last a considerable 

 time, and are very conspicuous on account of their brilliant 

 colour ; flowers in winter and spring. 



Aerides. 



*A. affine (Sylhet, 1837). Stems from one to three feet 

 high ; leaves about a foot long, with jagged apices ; racemes 

 cylindrical, one to two feet long, the numerous flowers being 

 white, suffused with rose, and dotted freely with purple ; 

 blooms about May or June, and lasts about a month in per- 

 fection. 



*a. A. affine, var. superbum. This is but a deeper coloured 

 variety of the last. 



*A. crispum (India, 1840). This fine species is rather formal 

 in habit, its leaves being broad, nearly horizontal, and bluntly 

 bilobed at their apices ; spike from twelve to eighteen inches 

 long, often once or twice branched ; flowers large, the lip being 

 somewhat rhombiform, bilobed at the apex, and deeply 

 suffused with rosy purple ; sepals and petals pure white, or 

 white delicately shaded with rose ; it generally blooms very 

 freely about May, June, and July. 



*a. A. crispum Lindleyanum is a robust variety of the above, 

 often growing three feet high. 



*&. A. crispum Warneri. Another handsome variety, having 

 narrower leaves, and deeper coloured flowers than those borne 

 by the normal form. 



*A. Fieldingii (India). This is one of the finest of all, and 



