70 AERIDES. 



Its principal station is Shillong in north-east India and the 

 adjacent hills, whence it has been occasionally imported since its 

 first introduction. The variety Williamsii, which is extremely rare, 

 was, Mr. Warner states, first imported by us with Aerides Fieldmgii 

 through Thomas Lobb. A. FieUinr/ii approaches very closely A. 

 mnltiflonnn, from which it is distinguished by its diii'erent habit, 

 and especially by the much acuminated lip of its differently-coloured 

 flowers. 



A. Huttonii, 



Leaves 7 — 10 inches long, | — 1 inch broad. Racemes longer than the 



leaves. Flowers an inch long, rose -purple, the lip deeper coloured, the 



pedicels much paler ; sepals and petals similar, broadly oblong, rounded 



at the apex ; lip ^\-ith a stout incurved, funnel-shaped spur, at the 



mouth of which are three erect lobes of which the middle one is the 



narrowest. Column short, anther yellow. 



Aerides Huttonii, supra, and Hort. Veitch, 1867. Saccolabium Huttonii, Hook. f. 

 Bot. Mag. t 5681. 



Introduced by us through Henry Huttou in 1866. It was sent 



with other plants collected by him in the Malay Archipelago, which 



reached us after his early and lamented death without any indication 



of the locality. As only a few plants were received alive, Aerides 



Huttonii continued to be very rare in cultivation till 1882, when it 



was re-discovered by Curtis in north Celebes, growing on mangrove 



trees near the sea-shore. As a species it is distinct, and botanically 



interesting as connecting Aerides with Saccolabium ; the characters 



of the labellum conforming more to the first than to the last-named 



genus it is here brought under it. 



A japonicum. 



Stems very short. Leaves few, linear — rarely oval-oblong, 3 — 4 inches 



long. Peduncles longer than the leaves, loosely racemose, 7 — 10 flowered. 



Flowers fragrant, greenish white with some red bars on the basal 



half of the lateral sepals, and some amethyst-purple stains on th-.^ lip : 



sepals and petals oval-oblong, the petals a little smaller than the sepals : 



lip with two erect lobules at th(^ l)ase, first oblong, then broadly 



obovate with crenulate margin, and concave Avith a raided median 



ridge ; spur funnel-shaped, half as long as the lip. 



Aerides japonicum, Rchb. in H.imb. Gartenz. 1863, p. 210. Bot. Mag. t. 5798. 

 Illus. horC. 1883, t. -161. So Mokou, XVIII. fol. l'2, sub. Nago-ran. 



First introduced fro.ii Japan by M. Linden, of Brusi^els, in 1802, 



