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A. Quinque-vulnera. 



Leaves 9 — 12 inches long, 1 — 1| inch broad, compHcate at base, 

 unequally bi-lobed at the apex. Racemes usually longer than the leaves. 

 Flowers somewhat less than an inch across vertically ; the dorsal sepal 

 and petals similar and equal, oval-oblong, obtuse, white with a bright 

 amethyst-purple apical blotch and some purple dots scattered over the 

 remaining area ; the lateral sepals broadly oval or sub-orbicular, similarly 

 coloured ; lip three-lobed, prolonged at the base into an incurved, horn- 

 like, green spur; the side lobes erect, triangulate-oblong, rotund in front, 

 white faintly dotted with purple ; the intermediate lobe oblong Avith 

 revolute and denticulate side margins, deep amethyst-purple. Column 

 white, 



Aerides Quinque-vuhiera, Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 30 (1830) (quinquevulnerum). Paxt. 

 Mag. Bot. VIII. p. 241 (1841). Jenuing's Orch. t. 30. A. Fenzlianuni, Rchb. and 

 A. jucundum, Rclib. ex Morren. Belg. hort. 1876, p. 289.* 



Discovered by Cuming during his mission to the Philippine 



Islands, 1836 — 40, and sent by him to Messrs. Loddiges_, in 



whose nursery at Hackney it flowered for the first time in this 



country in August, 1837. It grows upon trees in the hot valleys 



in the neighbourhood of Manila, whence it has been occasionally 



imported since its first introduction. The specific name, literally 



" five wounds/' refers to the apical spots on the three sepals and 



two petals, which in this species are usually very distinct and 



bright in colour. 



A. radicosum. 



Leaves 7—10 inches long, | — 1^ inch broad. Peduncles stoutish, 



ascending, as long as the leaves, racemed, rarely branched, dull purple 



and furrowed along the rachis. Flowers on pale rose-purple pedicels, 



f inch across vertically : sepals and petals broadly oval, the lateral sepals 



the largest, light rose-purple spotted with deep purple ; lip three-lobed, 



the side lobes very small, rotund, erect, coloured like the sepals and 



petals, tlie middle lobe oblong, acute, deep rose-purple ; spur horn-like, 



short and compressed laterally. Column with two small rounded 



whitish wings below the stigma, 



Aerides radicosum, A. Rich, in Ann. So. nat. XV. p. 65 (1841). Hook. f. FI. 

 Brit. lud. VI. p. 46. A. rubriun, Hort. Saccolabiuiu Wightiauum, Lindl. Gen'. 

 et Sp. Orcb. p. 221 (1832). Hchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 884. Wi;;;lit, Icon. PI. 

 Ind. or. t. 917. S. lultrum, Wi>,'iit, Icon. t. 1673 (not Lindl.). S. dugens, Lindl'. 

 Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. '221. Id. in Journ. Linn. Soc. III. p. 36. 



First discovered in southern India by Heyne, and afterwards on 

 the Pulney Hills, and at Quilon by Dr. Wight, and again later near 

 Ootacamund by Perrotet, a botanist attached to the French Ministry 



* To Aiiridcs Quiiique-vnbiera may also probably be referred A. Roebclini (Rchb in Gard 

 Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 510) and A. maryincUum (Id. XXIII. (1885), p. 533). 



