AERIDBS. 71 



and subsequently by ourselves. According to Franchet and Savetier* 

 it grows on shrubs in the hilly districts of Kiusiu, and in other 

 places. " The presence of Aerides in so high a northern latitude 

 as Japan is a remarkable fact in botanical geography^ testifying to 

 the warmth of the southern coasts of that archipelago, and to the 

 extension of a Malayan type of vegetation to so high a parallel. t 

 The climatic influence of so high a latitude has, however, manifested 

 itself in the diminished stature of the plant, which is the smallest 

 Aerides known. The form of the labellum is peculiar in this species 

 and distinctly separates it from every other. 



A. Lawrencese. 



Leaves 9 — 12 inches long, and 1^ — 2 inches broad. Racemes as 

 long as or longer than the leaves. Flowers fragrant, of wax-like 

 texture, the largest of the odoraiwn type ; sepals and petals white 



AtiiUcs Lawreuccee. 



with a rich amethyst-purple apical blotch, the upper sepal and petals 



oval-oblong, the lateral sepals much broader, broadly oval ; lip prolonged 



at the base into a horn-like, incurved, green spur, deeply three-lobed, 



the side lobes someAvliat hatchet-shaped with denticulate margin, white, 



the intermediate lobe oblong with dentate margin, rich amctbyst-purple, 



the colour sometimes prolonged between the side lobes as far as the 



green tip of the spur. 



Aerides Lawreiiceie, Hchb. in Card. Chrou. XX. 0883) p. 460. Williams' Urch. 

 Alb. YI. t. 270. The Garden, XXXV. (1889), t. 702. 



• flnuiii. PI. jaj). 11. p. 29, but these .mthors have confused it with Angr cecum falcatum, 

 and although they have ([Uoted the figuie of this plant in S6 Mokou, they omit that of 

 Aerides japoiUcum given in I'd]. 22. 



t Bot. Jfag. suh. t. 5793. 



