AEKILES. Ql 



century, but it was not introduced into British gardens till many 

 years afterwards. It flowered for the first time in this country in 

 Sir Richard Brooke's collection at Norton Priory, in Cheshire, in 

 1841, on which occasion it received the name of A. Brool-ei from 

 Mr. Bateman, who was unacquainted with Dr. Wallich's hei'barium 

 specimen which had been previously named A. crispum by Dr. 

 Lindley. The variety Lindlei/anum, a very fine form but now rarely 

 seen, was detected by Dr. Wight on the Neilgherry Hills in the 

 south of India about the year 1850, and was dedicated by him to 

 the eminent orchidologist as a distinct species. The variety Warner!, 

 also a rare form, first appeared in the collection of the late Mr. 

 C. H. Warner, at Hoddesden, in 1857. To the A. crisinua group 

 may probably be added A. illustre, described by Reichenbach in 

 the Gardeners' Chronicle, XVIII. (1882), p. 71, which had been 

 introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. amongst an importation of A. 

 crispum. 



A. Emerici. 



Leaves 9 — 12 inches long and 1— 1| inch broad. Racemes shorter 



than the leaves, sub-pendulous, the rachis viscid. Flowers an inch long, 



on pale purple, slightly twisted pedicels ; sepals and petals broadly 



obovate-oblong, white with a light amethyst-purple blotch at the apex 



of each ; side lobes of lip rounded, erect, spotted with purple inside 



at the basal end ; the intermediate lobe very small, narrowly oblong, 



acute, deep amethyst-purple : spur funnel-shaped, incurved. Column 



very short. 



Aerides Emerici, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVIII. (1882), p. 586. Bo(. Mag. t. 6728. 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 47. 



Discovered by Major-General Emeric S. Berkeley in the Andaman 



Islands and introduced by him in 1882. It is also found on the 



small islets to the north of the Andamans known as the Coco 



Islands. It belongs to the group of which Aerides odoratum is the 



type, and is distinguished from that species chiefly by its longer 



racemes of smaller and differently-coloured flowers. 



A. falcatum. 



Leaves G — 8 inches long and \\ — 1| inch broad, glaucescent above, 

 striated with dark hues beneath. Racemes as long as or longer than 

 the leaves. Flowers loosely arranged along the rachis, \\ inch long ; 

 sepals and petals white with a small light amethyst-purple apical blotch, 

 V)roadIy oval, tlic lateral sepals broader and the petals narrower than the 



