88 orchid-grower's manual. 



A. MoMORLANDr, Hort. — A magnificent species, compact in growth, and 

 having bright green foliage, about ten inches in length. The blossoms arc 

 produced freely in long branching racemes in June and July, and continue 

 three or four weeks in perfection ; they are white spotted with peach-colour. 

 The only plant we have known of this was in the collection of E. McMorland 

 Esq., in compliment to whom it is named. — India. 



A. MARGARITACEUM, Hort. — This pretty species has spotted leaves, and in 

 its general appearance somewhat resembles A. niaculosum ; it produces spikes 

 of pure white flowers during summ.er. — India. 



A. MENDELII, Hort. — This very handsome and distinct species has been 

 named in honour of the late S. Mendel, Esq., a great lover of plants and a 

 munificent patron of horticulture. It has a stem about the thickness of that of 

 A. virens ; the leaves, which are about seven and a half inches long, and one 

 and a half in breadth, are smooth, shining, and of a light green colour, and 

 have the habit of clasping the stem at the base, like those of A. quinquevulnerum. 

 The flowers are produced upon drooping spikes, and resemble those of A. 

 Larpentae as to size and shape, but are entirely distinct in colour, being pure 

 white tipped with rose. — India. 



A, MITRATUM, Bchb.f. — A very distinct and charming species, of small 

 stature. The stems are short, with abundant thick aerial roots, the leaves being 

 long (two feet) cylindric attenuately-acuminate or whip-like, dark green, and 

 the flowers in numerous dense erect racemes, five to ten inches long, the sepals 

 and petals pure waxy -white, and the broadly truUiform obtuse lip rosy purple, 

 A rare and elegant species. — Moulmein. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5728. 



A. MULTIFLORUM — See AisMBEs apfine. 



A. MOBILE, Warner. — A magnificent free-flowering fragrant species in the 

 way of A. suavissimum, but with the flowers larger and of a better colour ; we 

 have seen racemes of this plant from two to three feet long, and branched. The 

 habit of growth is vigorous ; the leaves are ligulate, obliquely emarginate with 

 an interjected tooth, and the racemes are pendent and profusely flowered, the 

 flowers being creamy white, spotted and shaded with rose, the lip three-lobed, 

 the lobes of nearly equal length, the middle one tongue-shaped, and bifid at the 

 apex, and the long incurved ascendant spur being yellowish ; it blooms in June, 

 July, and August, and keeps in perfection for three or four weeks. The flowers 

 as well as the rachides are clammy. — India. 



Fig.— Warner, ScL Oroh. PI., i. t. 11 ; Oartenfl., t. 641. 



A. ODORATUM, Loureiro. — A good old species, of free-growing habit, and 

 one of the most abundant-flowering of the genus. The leathery leaves are 

 ligulate, keeled, pale green, and obliquely obtuse at the apex. It blooms in 

 June or July, and remains two or three weeks in good condition ; the flowers 

 grow in pendulous many-flowered racemes longer than the leaves, and are 

 creamy white, blotched and shaded with pale magenta, and have a delightful 

 perfume ; the lip is remarkable for its largo upturned spur. We have seen 



