66 AERIDES. 



A very handsome species introduced by Messrs. Low and Co., 

 from Moulmein, through the Rev. C, S. Parish in 1864, but which 

 did not flower in this country till several years afterwards, on the 

 first occasion in 1872 in the collection of the late Mr. John Day, 

 at Tottenham, and in the following year in that of the late Mr. 

 Dodgson, at Beardsworth, Blackburn. It is very near Ae rides falcatum, 

 from which it is chiefly distinguished by its dwarfer and more 

 robust stems, its broader and more leathery leaves, and its looser 

 racemes of larger and differently coloured flowers. 



A. crispum. 



Stems usually dull violet-purple along tho leafy part. Leaves spreading, 

 5— 8 inches long, 1| — 2 inches broad, bi-lobetl at the apex with a small mucro 

 between the lobes. Peduncles 3 — 5 times as long as the leaves, general]}' 

 racemose, but sometimes branched. ric)wers among the largest in the 

 genus, with a pleasant pnie-apple fragrance, nearly 2 inches across 

 vertically, on short, partially tAvisted grooved pedicels ; sepals and petals 

 white lightly stained with rose-purple behind, and witli a faint flush of 

 the same near the apical end in front, oval-oblong, obtuse, the lateral 

 sepals larger and the petals smaller than the dorsal sepal ; lip three-lobed, 

 the side lobes small, erect, roundish oblong, white, streaked with rose- 

 purple on the inner side ; the middle lobe broadly ovate, saddle-like, 

 with serrate margin, rich amethyst-purple, and with a white grooved 

 callus at the entrance of the saccate base ; spur small, horn-like^ 

 compressed. Column white ; anther yellowish. 



Aerides crispum, Lindl. iu Wallich's Cat. 7319. Id. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 239, 



(1832). Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 55. Bot. Mag. t. 4427. Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Serrc.% 



V. t. 438. lilus. hort. 1857, t. 123. Gard. Chron, 1859, p. 24, icon. xyl. 



Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 45. A. Brookei, Batem. in Bot Keg. 1841, misc. 



No. 116. Paxt. Mag. Bot. IX. p. 145. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, I. p. 42. 



var . — Lindleyanu m . 



Peduncles branched. Flowers somewhat larger than in the type, the 



dorsal sepal and petals tinted with light purple, the side lobes of the 



lip greenish, the middle lobe rich amethyst-purple bordered with white. 



A. crispum Lindle3'anum, supra A. Lindleyanum, "Wight Ic. t. 1677. Lindl. 

 in Jour. Linn. Soc. IIL p. 41. l^ehb. in Walp. Ann. VL p. 897. 



var. — Warneri, 



Leaves ascending, shorter and narrower than in the type Racemes 

 longer with smaller flowers ; sepals nnd petals white very faintly 

 suffused with light rose-pin-ple ; lip deep rose-purple with a narrow white 

 margin . 



A. crispum Warneri, Williams' Urch. Alb. VII. t. 293. A. Warneri, Hort. 

 Aerides crisjjum w^as first discovered by Dr. ^^^allich, in the valley of 

 Courtallum in the extreme south of India, in the early part of the present 



