THE ORCHID REVIEW. 2U7 
AERIDES ODORATUM. 
It is interesting to learn that the fine specimen of Aérides odoratum in the 
collection of R. le Doux, Esq., keeps in excellent health, and maintains its 
floriferous character. Mr. Archer writes that it is now again flowering 
finely, bearing forty-five racemes, and that it is still growing on the same 
piece of timber as when brought home from Pard, and is growing freely and 
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well. Its history has already been given (avie., vi., p. 273, Vil., Pp. 195), but 
it may be interesting to reproduce the original picture of so fine a plant. 
is now pretty evident that some peculiarity in the climate of Para must 
have been the cause of its not flowering there, though one would suppose it 
not so very different from that of its native country. 
