AEEIDES CKISPUM WAENERII. 



[Plate 293._ 



Mative of the East Indies. 



An erect-growiDg epiphyte, with a somewhat slender, purplish black stem, from 

 which at intervals are produced stout fleshy roots. Leaves ascending, about five 

 inches long, narrowly-oblong, channelled above, carinatc beneath, obtusely bilobed at 

 the apex, and bearing a small mucro between the lobes, leathery in texture, deep 

 green on the upper side, slightly paler beneath. Raceme axillary, erect, many- 

 flowered and upwards of a foot in length ; sepals and petals incurved, the latter 

 recurved on the margin, nearly equal, the latter slightly narrowest, ovate obtuse^ 

 wdiite, suffused with rose ; lip large, lateral lobes small, erect, and spreading, white, 

 transversely streaked with rosy red, middle-lobe ovate, entire, rich, rosy purple, 

 narrowly bordered with white, and denticulate on the edge ; spur short, stout, 

 projecting forward, green at the point. 



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Aerides ceisptjm Waexeeii. Williams', Orchid-Groiver'' s Manual, 6 ed., p. 100. 



The first appearance in this country of Aerides crispum Warnerii was a 

 specimen exhibited by us at the last show held by the Horticultural Society at 



Chiswick, June 3rd and 4th, 1857, before the Society's South Kensington Gardens 



in existence ; but we cannot find that it has been either figured or described in any 

 publication. The specimen referred to above had been grown by myself in the 

 collection of the late C. B. Warner, Esq., at Hoddesdon, in whose honour the 

 ant was named. At the time it was exhibited Dr. Lindley designated it as a 

 very distinct and brilliantly coloured new Aerides, remarking that it was quite 

 distinct, both in foliage and flower, from A. crispum^ with a plant of which 

 species A. crispum Warnerii was staged. Since that time plants of it have occa- 

 sionally been imported, and we believe- they have come from the neighbourhood of 

 Bombay. Our drawing was taken from a specimen which flowered in the Victoria 

 and Paradise Nurseries, and well illustrates the habit and features of this charming 



plant. 



Aerides crispum Warnerii is an evergreen, erect in growth, bearing dark gv(^eii 

 leaves which are ascending — not horizontal as in ^. crispum — from five to six inches 

 in length, and about two inches in breadth, the stem and bases of the leaves being 

 purplish black. It is a prolific bloomer, and the . large flowers are deliciously 

 fragrant; indeed, it possesses every good quality to be desired in a plant- The 

 sepals and petals are white, flushed with rose, the lip deep rosy purple. The 

 flowers are produced in May and June, and it continues in beauty three or four 

 weeks. 



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