AERIDES QUINQUEVULNERUM. 
[PLATE 495 ] 
Native of the Philippine Islands. 
Epiphytal. More compact in growth than any other of this genus. Stem 
erect, and bearing distichous light green leaves, from nine to fifteen inches in 
length, and from one-and-a-half to two inches in width, of a thick leathery texture, 
complicated at the base, and with the apex unequally bi-lobed. acemes pendent, 
longer than the leaves, and many-flowered. Peduncles white, flowers sweetly 
scented, usually about an inch across. Dorsal sepal and petals nearly equal, 
oblong-obtuse, the two lateral sepals being much broader; all are very similar in 
colour, being French-white, with a few rosy purple spots and a heavy deep crimson- 
purple blotch at the end of each; lip three-lobed, cucullate, incurved into a_horn- 
like spur of a greenish colour at the end, side lobes erect, white, flushed with 
rose, slightly spotted with rosy purple spots, and in the centre a deep crimson- 
purple blotch. Column creamy white. 
A#RIDES QUINQUEVULNERUM, Jvndley, Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 30. Pazxton’s 
Magazine of Botany, vii, 241. Jennings’ Orchids, t. 30. Tindenia, iv., t. 150. 
Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th ed., p. 89. 
AiirIpES sucunDUM, Reichenbach fil, ex. Morren, Belgique Horticole, 1876, p. 289. 
AéripEs Fenziranum, Reichenbach fil. 
This fine species was discovered by the celebrated traveller, Hugh Cumming, 
whilst collecting in the Philippines for Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, in whose nurseries 
it flowered as far back as the year 1837, and who in their time have flowered and 
introduced a great many new species and varieties, being quite enthusiastic Orchidologists. 
It is a plant that is found upon the stems and branches of trees in the hot, moist 
valleys of the Island of Luzon, and it requires a similar atmosphere to be maintained 
under cultivation. Its name applies to the very bright colours that are developed 
upon the tips of the sepals and petals, and which add materially to its heauty. 
Aérides quinquevulnerum blooms about the months of July and August, and it 
continues in flower a long time if not sprinkled with water from the syringe. The 
variety here portrayed was taken from a fine specimen that flowered in the 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries in August of last year (1893), and which is a 
finely-spotted form. This species is a splendid free-blooming kind, and although 
not a new one, well deserves to be in every establishment where a collection of 
Orchids are grown. When in bloom it often lasts for several weeks in perfection, 
and makes a fine specimen foliage plant even when not in flower, resembling very 
much the family of Angraecums, Saccolabiums, and Vandas. The flowers are 
