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exhibited by hira on several occasions at the Manoboster Exhibitions. It 

 flowers during Juno and Jul)-. — ihulmeiii. 



Fin.— 7//. Ilort., t. 559; Ordiid Alhmii, i. t. 21; TVrfcA, Man. Oreh. PL, vii. 

 opposite p. 7."). 



A. LOBBII AINSWORTHII, Williams.— K. very flue form of tho type, pro- 

 ducing spikes about two feet long, which are well branched ; the colour is very 

 bright and more elective than in the type. It was first flowered by the late R. F. 

 Ainsworth, Esq., M.D., of Manchester, and was exhibited by his gardener, Mr. 

 Mitchell, at the Royal Horticultural Society's Show at Preston. — Muuhnein. 



A. MACULOSUM, Lindley. — A stout dwarf compact-growing Orchid of great 

 beauty, having stifE broad obliquely-obtuse dark green leaves, eight inches 

 long, spotted with purple on the outer side near tho base, and producing 

 drooping branched racemes of pale rosy flowers more or less spotted with 

 purple, and having a large bright rosy-purple ovate-obtuse wav)' anterior lobe 

 to the lip, which has besides two small acute lobes at its base.- These flowers 

 are deliciously fragrant, and very striking in colour ; they are produced about 

 June and July, and if they are kept dry they will last four weeks in perfection. 

 The species is one of slow growth, which is the reason we so seldom see fine 

 plants. — India : Bombay. 



Fl3.— fiirf. Itcj., 1S15, t. 58 ; P.irt. Jl.r/. Sot., xii. 49. 



A. MACULOSUM FORMOSUM, TAnchn.—\ fine variety, which produces 

 large and strongly-scented flowers. The petals and sepals arc white, washed 

 and spotted with crimson-purple. 



Fig. — Liinli-iiia, i. t. 11. 



A. MACULOSUM SCHRODERI, ^\^iniams.—A magnificent free-growing 

 plant, much stronger than A. maculosum, and more in the way of A. < ri'sjjini/,, 

 with dark green foliage, ten inches long. The flowers arc very delicate, and 

 deliciously scented, the sepals and petals being almost alike — white, tinged 

 with lilac and spotted with rose, and the lip or labellum of n beautiful rosy 

 magenta colour ; it flowers in June or July, lasting three weeks in perfection. 

 This was first flowered by J. H. Scliroder, Esq. It is supposed that there wa.s 

 only one plant imported, and that the stock at present in this country is from 

 that one plant, on wliich account it is still very rave— Hills near Bombay. 



Yl&.—Heiifrey. Gnrd. May. Bot., ii. 121 ; JPescatuiva, t. 33 ; Levi. Jiinl. FL, t. 54 ; 

 Gard. C/iroii., N.s. xiii. i93, fig. 87 (woodcut showing habit). 



A. MARGINATUM, Rchb. /.— -^. lovely species, allied to .1. quinquevuhierum, 

 ■which it resembles in habit. It has broadish bilobed or emarginate lorate 

 leaves, which are keeled on tho under surface, and fine drooping racemes of 

 handsome flowers densely packed on the rachis ; the sepals and petals are of a 

 very pale yellowish tint, with the anterior border purple ; the spur is conical 

 and of a light green ; the side lobes of the lip arc semi-oblong, toothed in front, 

 and of a deep orange colour, while the midlobc is oblong-ligulate toothletted, 

 yellow, changing to a deep sepia brown ; a linear transverse callus occurs at 

 the front side of the mouth of the spur, and a similar but narrower one behind. 

 The colours are unusual in this genus, .so that tlie plant has a peculiar interest 

 for Orchid growers. — Philippine Islands. 



