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beautifully mottled, -with clear bright rose colour, and have a rich rose-coloured 

 lip ; they are produced during May, June, and July, and continue for three or 

 four weeks. This makes a fine exhibition plant, and Prof. Morren well 

 observes, " I'inflorescence rameuse est toujours somptueuse." — India: Sikhini, 

 Assam, &c. 



Fig. — Jennings, Orehi.d.t,t. 20; Belqique HoH., 1876, tt. 18,19; OrcJiid Album, 

 viii. t. 309 ; Lindinia, iii. t. 97 ; Journ. l/ort., xiv. 1887, p. Ii9, f. 24. 



A. FLAVIDUM.' — See AisaiDES suavissimum. 



A. GODEFROYANUM, BcJib. /.—The flowers of this species have some 

 resemblance to those of A. maculosum. Petals and sepals pale rose with streaks 

 and spots of amethyst ; lip almost white, provided with a very small angular 

 spur. — GocJiin China. 



Fig. — VOfoliidopli'de, 1887, p. 241, with plate. 



A. HOULLETIANUM, Jlc/i6./. — This most distinct and beautiful species was 

 exhibited by Sir T. Lawrence, Bart., in 1876, when it was certificated by 

 the Eoyal Horticultural Society ; previous to this it had been flowered by Mr. 

 Liiddemann, of Paris. The growth, including roots, foliage, and habit, resembles 

 that of A. rirens, the leaves being short, lorate, and bluntly two-lobed at the 

 apex. The flowers, which are large and borne on dense many-flowered racemes, 

 resemble in form those oi A. falcatum,h-at the sepals and petals are buff -coloured 

 tipped with a single spot of magenta, and the lip is creamy-white with a 

 wedge-shaped blotch of magenta on the anterior part of the subrhomboid 

 fimbriated middle lobe, and bearing lines of the same colour on the semifaloatc 

 side lobes. It flowers in May and June. — Goohin China. 



Fig. — Xenia OrcMdacea, ili. t. 204 ; III. Sort., xxix. t. 455 ; Lindenia, iii. t. 103 ; 

 L' Orchidophile, 1890, p. 17 ; Warner Sel. Orch., PL iii. t. 39; Reme Hortieolr, 189K 

 p. 324 (plate) (var. majus). 



A. HUTTONI. — See Aerides Thibautianum. 



A. ILLUSTRE, Bchb. f. — This is, according to Prof. Eeichenbach, a grand 

 plant, imported with A. crispum, and supposed to be a natural hybrid. It has 

 very short broad leaves marked with a few dark spots, and unbranched racemes 

 of flowers in the way of A. maculosum, but larger, the sepals and petals being 

 broader, with a lilac hue over the white and with very few blotches, and these 

 mostly on the inner side of the petals ; the lip is very fine, rich amethyst, 

 purple, with the longitudinal basal markings characteristic of A. maculosum.— 

 India. 



A. JAPONICUM, Linden et Bchh. /.—This, though quite a diminutive plant, 

 nevertheless bears comparatively large flowers, and is a pretty and interesting 

 miniature epiphyte. The leaves are short, linear-oblong, leathery, and, as usual, 

 obliquely bilobed at the apex. It produces a drooping raceme of about eight 

 flowers, which are developed in June and July, and are of a greenish- white, the 

 lateral sepals having some concentric purplish bars near the base, and the 

 obovate spathulate crenated lip a raised dark violet-purple median ridge and a 

 few paler purple spots ; it is a cool-house species.— 7apan. 



Fig.— JBot. Mag., t. 5798 ; III. Sort., xxix. t. 461. 



A. LARPENTAE.— See AiJRinES falcatum. 



