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A. armeniaca. — A very free-growing compact plant, attain- 

 ing to about a foot in height ; pseudobulbs somewhat oval, 

 bearing on the top two broad light green leaves, and from 

 the base producing a rather lax, many- flowered, pendulous 

 raceme, a foot or more in length, supporting from twelve to 

 twenty of its rich yellow flowers, slightly spotted with red ; 

 blooms very freely through the summer months, and is a very 

 desirable plant for a basket. 



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This genus, as far as I am aware, contains but one 

 species, and is evidently nearly alhed to Brassia. It is an 

 extremely showy and ornamental plant, as the colour is rare 

 amongst Orchids ; it should be grown with such plants as 

 Odontoglossum Alexandra, and treated in the same manner. 



A. aurantiaca. — But few plants of this most desirable 

 Orchid have been imported, until quite recently, and this 

 probably is the reason we have up to the present time so 

 seldom seen it. It is a beautiful compact evergreen Orchid, 

 growing from eight inches to a foot high ; spike drooping ; the 

 flowers, which are of a bright orange colour, are^placed some- 

 what distantly on them ; native of New Grenada, being found 

 growing at an elevation of 8,500 feet. It is another addition 

 to our now numerous cool-house species ; blooms in autumn 

 and early spring. 



Aerides. 

 The species of Aerides are among the most beautiful of 

 Orchids, many of them uniting every good quality that a plant 

 can possess — rich, evergreen, and regularly-curved fohage, a 

 graceful habit, flowers deUciously scented, and of peculiar 

 elegance. Even when not in bloom the plants themselves are 

 interesting objects, and give a tropical character to the collec- 

 tions in which they are found. The stems of the Aerides are 



