were supplied from the same source, in compliment to M. Houllet, 

 the Curator of the Jardin des Plantes. It flowered for the first 

 time in this country in May, 1876, in the garden of Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., at Burford Lodge ; the plant had been received 

 in 1873 from Cochin China. The variety Leonice was received by 

 Mr. H. J. Ross, of Castagnola, near Florence, in 1879, from Dr. 

 Clement Williams, of Mandalay. It bad been discovered the year 

 before by Mr. Allan Goss, of Rangoon, in compliment to whose 

 wife it was named. Two years later it became generally distributed 

 among British collections. 



A. Fieldingil. 



Leaves 7 — 10 inches long, 1 — If inch broad, the lower ones deflexed, 

 the upper ones spreading or slightly ascending. Peduncles 18 — 24 or 

 more inches long, generally racemose, but sometimes branched near the 

 base. Flowers crowded, 1^ inch across vertically; the dorsal sepal and 

 petals obovate, obtuse, amethyst-purple suffused with white, but sometimes 

 with the basal half white dotted witli purple ; lateral sepals broadly oval, 

 white with a pale purple apical spot ; lip nearly deltoid or trowel- 

 shaped, much acuminated, slightly compressed laterally, with two small 

 basal lobes rolled inwards over the mouth of the small, funnel-like, 

 whitish spur, amethyst-purple mottled with white. 



Aerides Fieldingii, Jennings' Orch. t. 20 (1875). Belrj. Hurt. 1876, t. 18-19, p. 225. 

 Williams' Orch. Alb. VII, t. 309. De Puydt, Les Orch. t. 3, Hook, f, Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. p. 45. Aerides, " Fox Brush," Rchb. APgem. Gartenz. 185.5, p. 225. 



var. — Williamsii. 



Leaves longer and more deflexed. Racemes more dense. Flowers 



white with some purple markings at the base of the front lobe of the lip. 



A. Fieldingii Williamsii, supra. A. Williamsii, Warner's Sel. Orch. I. t. 21. 



Introduced by us through Thomas Lobb, in 1850, along with 



Vanda coendea, and subsequently exhibited by us at the principal 



metropolitan and other horticultural shows as the " Fox Brush " 



Aerides, a name whose origin we are unable to trace, but which 



evidently refers to the aspect of the inflorescence. It was afterwards 



named Aerides Fieldingii in compliment to Colonel Fielding, an officer 



in the Indian army, and curiously enough, although this name has 



been in use among horticulturists for upwards of forty years, it 



was not botanically recognised till accepted by Sir J. D. Hooker in 



the recently published part XVII. of his Flora of British India, the 



previously published descriptions and figures being exclusively confined 



to horticultiiral literature. 



