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var.— Godefroyanum. 



Leaves complicate, longer and more leathery. Flowers somewhat 



larger with broader segments that are more brightly coloured. 



A. niultifloruin Godefroyanum, supra. A. Godefroyanum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 

 XXV. (1886) p. 814. Godefroy's Orchidophih, 1887, p. 241. 



var.— Lobbii. 



Stem usually shorter, the leaves much crowded, lying almost flat one 



upon the other ; peduncles much longer, with one — two branches ; flowers 



more numerous and more richly coloured. 



A. raultiflorum Lobbii supra. A Lobbii, Illus. hort. XV. (1868), t. 557. 

 Williams' Orch. Alb. I. t. 21. 



var.— Veitchii. 



As compared with var. Lobbii ; the leaves are more distant and more 



spreading, the racemes shorter with more branches ; the flowers lighter 



in colour ; sepals and ])etals white dotted with rose at the apical end ; 



lip light rose-purple. 



A. multiflorum Veitchii, Morren. in Belg. hort. 1881, p. 123. A. Veitchii, De 

 Puydt, Les Orch. t. 4. 



With the exception of Aen'des odoratum, A. midtiflorum is the 

 most widely distributed oi' all the East Indian species. It occurs 

 in the lower valleys of the Himalaya, from Kumaon to Assam, and 

 thence spreads southwards into Lower Burmah, where it is one of 

 the commonest orchids of the country. It has also been gathered 

 at Mergui, in the Andaman Islands, and in Cochin China. 



Aerides mult if ovum first became known to science towards the end 

 of the last century, when it was discovered in Sylhet by Dr. 

 William Roxburgh, the first Director of the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, and many years afterwards near Sheopore, in Nepal, by 

 his successor, Dr. VValHch.* It was introduced to British o-ardens 

 by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose nursery, under the name of A. a§ine, 

 it flowered in 18:37. The variety Godefroyanum was introduced from 

 Saigon, in Cochin China, by the well-known orchidist of Argenteuil, 

 near Paris, whose name it bears ; the plant is very distinct in 

 foliage from the Indian type, but the flowers are structurally 

 identical. The variety Lobbii, the handsomest and most generally 

 cultivated of all the muUiforum forms, was introduced by us from 

 Moulmein in Ibol, through Thomas Lobb. The variety Veitchii 

 was also introduced from Moulmein through Lobb along with the variety 

 that bears his name, of which it is presumably ;i seminal form ; 



* Sert. Urch. sub. t. 15. 



