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A. ELLISII.— Sec Aekides yirens Bllisii. 



A. EMERICII, Schh.f. — This new species is, according to Prof. Eeichenbach, 

 allied to A. virens, but is more elegant in habit, and the leaves are longer and 

 narrower than in that species, being elongate-lorate, and bilobed at the apex. 

 The flowers are in drooping racemes, the sepals and petals white with a broad 

 purple-lilac stripe down the centre of each, and the lip white with the middle 

 lobe purple-lilac, and marked with numerous small spots of the same colour 

 on the interior portion of the spur ; it flowers in September and October. — 

 British India. 



A. EXPANSUM, Schh. f. — A grand plant, allied to A. falcatum, but the 

 leaves are broader, and of a light green colour. The flowers are produced in 

 elongated racemes, and have the sepals and petals creamy white marked with 

 purple, the well-expanding lip having amethyst blotches on the lateral lobes 

 and on the sides of the middle lobe, the broad anterior portion of which is 

 deep purple and the spur greenish ; it flowers in June and July. — India. 



Fia.—Gartenflora, 1889, t. 1296. 



Stn. — A. falcatum expansv/m, 



A. EXPANSUM LEONIAE, RM. /., is a fine variety of the preceding, and 

 was first fiowered by H. J. Ross, Esq., Castagnola, Lastra a Signa, Italy. The 

 flowers are not so closely set on the spike as in A. falcatum, nor is the foliage 

 so densely set. — India. 



Fie. — rOrchidophilc, 1885, p. 301 ; Orchid Album, vii. t. 32S. 



A. FALCATUM, lAndley.—A. fine free-growing plant, with a good deal of the 

 habit of A. crispimi, the leathery leaves are obtuse and obliquely mucronate at 

 the apex, attaining ten inches in length, and of a dark green colour, with a 

 bluish metallic tint on the upper surface. The flowers grow in dense 

 pendulous racemes, of a creamy white with a crimson spot at the apex of the 

 sepals and petals, and the lip, which is three-parted, with the lateral lobes 

 obtusely falcate, and the middle obovate lobe convex and ciliated, is deep rose 

 in the middle, the edges white barred with rose. It is a distinct and striking 

 species, and was flrst flowered in 1847 by Mr. Eyles, when gardner to Sir Gr. 

 Larpent, of Eoehampton, and was shown at Chiswick in June of that year, 

 when it received the first prize as a new plant; hence the name of A. Larpentae, 

 under which it is sometimes known. — India. 



FlGr.—Xenia Orchid., i. t. 92. 

 Syn. — A. Larpentae, Hort. 



A. FALCATUM EXPANSUM.— See AisEiDES Expansum. 



A. FIELDINGII, lAndley. — A magnificent free-fiowering species of bold and 

 striking character, of which there are many distinct varieties, both in regard 

 to growth and flowers. It is one of the finest Orchids in cultivation, and is 

 popularly known as the Pox-brush Aerides on account of its long dense raceme 

 of flowers. The plant grows from two to three feet high, with broad fleshy 

 obliquely two-lobed leaves, eight or ten inches long, and in some of the 

 varieties of a dark green colour, while in others they are of a lighter shade. 

 The flowers grow in drooping racemes, which sometimes attain a length of 

 three feet, and arc often branched; the flowers are unusually large, white 



