78 AEKIDES. 



of Marine, from whose specimens it was figured and described by 

 Acliille Richard under the name adopted above, which is the oldest 

 pubHshed name under the right genus. We find no record of its 

 first introduction into British gardens, in which it is better known 

 as Aerides ruhrwn. 



A. Savageanum. 



Leaves 7 — 9 inclios long, 1 — 1| broad. Racemes as long as the loaves. 

 Flowers less than an inch across vertically ; sepals oval-oblong, the basal 

 half white dotted and stained witli crimson-purple, the apical half crimson- 

 purple ; jictals similar but narrower ; lip deep crimson-jjurple, with a 

 greenish spur that is (piite straight, the side lobes roundish oblong, erect; 

 the intermediate lobe small, linear-oblong, incurved with denticulate 

 margin. 



Aerides Savageanum, Hort. Sander, 

 The Aerides described above was acquired by us at a sale under 

 the above name, and flowered in our houses in the summer of 1890. 

 We are unable to refer it to any species known to us ; we 

 can find no scientific authority for the name nor any record of its 

 origin and introduction. It is very distinct as regards the colour 

 of its flowers, which are the darkest we have yet seen in the 

 genus. 



A. suavissimum. 



Leaves 7 — 9 inches long, and l\ — lA inch broad. Racemes nearly 

 as long again as the leaves. Flowers very fragrant, somewhat crowded, 

 on purplish pedicels (including ovary) an inch long ; sepals and petals 

 spreading, white suffused with pale lilac, and with a rose-lilac apical 

 blotch, the dorsal sepal broadly oval, the lateral two larger, subquadrate ; 

 petals like the dorsal sepals but smaller ; lip prolonged at the base into 

 a horn-like spur, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, oblong-rotund, buff- 

 yellow spotted with purple, the middle lobe much smaller,, linear-oblong 

 with denticulate margin, paler in colour than the side lobes. 



Aerides suavissimum, Liudl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. IV. p. 264 (1849). Id. 

 Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. t. 66. Rolfe in Gard. Chron. VII. s. 3 (1390) p. 43. Hook. 

 f, Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 47. A. flavidam, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. p. 101 

 (1852). A. Reichenbachianura, Linden in Koch and Fintelmann's Wochenschrift, 

 1858, p. 61. Rchb. Xen. Orch. II. t. 104. A. nobile Warner's Sel. Orch. I. 

 t. 11 (1862). Kegel's Gartenfl. 1870, t. 641. A. Rohanianum, Rchb. in Gard. 

 Chron. X.XI (1884), p. 206. 



var.— Ballantineanum. 



Racemes shorter, fewer flowered, and appearing earlier in the year. 

 Flowers somewhat smaller ; sepals and petals white with an amethyst- 

 purple apical blotch on each ; the side lobes of the lip tawny yellow 



