Plate 116. 



ACROPERA ARMENIACA. 



Apricot-coloured Acropera, 



Gen. Char. Sepala patentia, supremum galeatum, lateralia divaricata. Pdahi nana, ol)liqnn, 

 apice truncata, subpatentia. Labellum u] 



mmore 



helium unguiculatum^ cum basi columnoe elastice articiilritiinij tn- 

 saccato. Columna erecta, marginata, basi saccnta. Tullinla 2, 



linearia, convoluta^ caudicula lineari-subulata, glandula minutA,. Eostellum subulatiim. — Ei)Ipli} tuj, 



raccmis cemuis multijioris, vegetatione Maxillariae. Lindl. 



AcRO i'Eu A armeniaca J racemo laxo multilloro, sepalis apiculatis laterulibus oblifjuis apicc rotiiii- 



datia, petalis liberis columnS, duplo brevioribiis, labello calceato caruoso apicc libera ovato 

 piano acuminato intus pone basin crista tubcrculata aucto. Li/i'U. I.e. 



AcROPERA armeniaca. Lindl. in Faxt. Flow. Gard. cum xylo. v. 1. p. 110. 



Although introduced to our collections about the year 1850, no coloured repre- 

 sentation of this beautiful plant— which is by far the most ornamental species of the 

 singular genus to which it belongs— had appeared up to the present year (18G5). It 

 was discovered by Warszewicz in Nicaragua, and was probably distributed under tlie 

 hammer of Mr. Stevens soon after its arrival in this country, but it is still exceedingly 

 rare. Indeed, but for the care bestowed upon the plant at Oulton Park, where it ori- 

 ginally flowered, and from w^hence, through the kindness of Sir Philip Egerton, my 

 own specimens were derived, it would in all probability ere this ha\'e been lost to our 

 gardens. Nothing can be simpler than its cultivation, but it requires a pot and a fur 

 amount of heat, and, being a rapid grower, it should be broken up, like the Gomjoms 

 and Stanhopeas, every second or third year. It flowers abundantly duiiiig the summer 

 months. There is a great family likeness among the Acroperas, and therefore, altliouuli 

 botanically distinct, it is not desirable to attempt to cultivate them all. Vsh^'ve a sr-lrc- 

 tion is made, A. Bafemanni and A. armeniaca are decidedly the best, and of tljcse two 

 the last is brii-hter in its colouring?, and larger and handsomer in all its part?*. 



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Fig. 1 . Side view of a flower. 2. Front view of a column. 3. Front view of ih. VMhuu : 



nw,jnified. 



