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spur straight, longer than the side lobes, green tipped. Column with 

 a very short foot. 



Aerides Leeauum, Kchb. in Gard. Chrou. XV. (1881), p. 656. 



A species or ''form" whose origin has not been divulged, with 

 the habit of Aerides Quinque-vulnera but apparently allied to A. 

 Thibautlanum (Rchb. Gard. Chron. 1866, p. 100), which we have been 

 unable to identify with any of the forms known to us in cultivation. 

 It was introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. some time prior to 1881, 

 and is named in compliment to Mr. Lee, from whose collection at 

 Downside, since dispersed, materials for description were sent to the 

 late Professor Reichenbach. 



A. maciilosiun. 



Leaves 6 — 9 inches long, and 1^ — If inch broad. Peduncles longer 



than the leaves, usually branched near the base. Flowers about 1^- 



inch long; sepals and petals oval-oblong, white at the base, the 



remaining area stained and spotted with amethyst-purple ; lip with a 



broad claw, on each side of which is a small auricle ; blade nearly 



flat, ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, amethyst-purple, paler at the margin, 



and with two small white tubercles at the base, the claw and its 



auricles white streaked with purple ; spur short, horn-like, incurved, 



green tipped. Column white ; anther j'ellowish. 



Aerides maculosum, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1845, t. 58. Paxt. Maq. Bot. XII. 

 p. 49. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 451. Saccolabium speciosum, Wight. Icon. 

 PI. Ind. or t. 1674—75 (1852). 



var. — Schroederi. 



Stems more robust and taller. Leaves more distant and longer ; 



peduncles stouter and more branched, the sepals and petals narrower 



with the apical stain larger and brighter, the front lobe of the lip 



longer and of a deep amethyst-purple. 



A. maculosum Schroederi, Henfrey, in Garden Mag. Bot. XI. p. 121, icon. xyl. 

 Linden's Peso. t. 33. 



A native of the Western Ghauts of India, from Mahabaleshwar, 



its northern limit, to Travancore in the south, but quite local, in 



one or two places associated with Aerides crispum. It was introduced 



by Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, and Messrs. Roliisson, of Tooting, and 



flowered for the first time in this country in the nurseries of those 



firms in July, 1844. The variety first appeared some years later in 



the collection of Mr. J. H. Schroeder, at Stratford Green. Both 



the type and the variety are still comparatively rare in British 



collections. 



