AiiRIDES. 89 



specimens five feet high and four feet in diameter, which produced fifty to 

 sixty spikes of bloom every year. It is altogether a noble and very useful 

 plant. — China, Cochin China, and India. 



FlG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1485 ; Hot. Mar/., t. 4139 ; Kmwlcs ami West, Fl. Cub., t. 75 ; 

 Jfauiid, Botanist, iv. t. 186 ; Ifort. Farad., ii. t. i ; Ilooker'x Fin-t CeiUury, t. 89. 

 Sy>'. — A. cornutum, Eoxb. 



A. ODORATUM CORNUTUM, Hori., is a handsome frcc-tiowering variety, 

 distinct in growth from, the preceding. Its floral racemes are about twelve 

 inches long, furnished with pink and white flowers, which are produced in May, 

 June, and July, and continue for upwards of three weeks in bloom. — India. 



A. ODORATUM DEMIDOFFI, Linden. — This handsome viiriety differs from 

 the type by the flowers being more strongly spotted, and by the spots on the lip 

 being of a much dai'ker purple. 



Fig. — Lliidenia, i. t. 14. 



A. ODORATUM MAJUS, Sort., is like A. odoratum in its growth, and differs 

 only in the larger and longer spikes of flowers ; it makes a line exhibition plant 

 and may be retarded very easily without the slightest injury. — India. 



FlG.—Gaiterifl., viii. t. 273. 



A. ODORATUM PURPURASCENS, Hort., is a somewhat scarce variety, and 

 one of the very best. It is robust in habit, with broad dark-green leaves, and is 

 <i free bloomer, producing long massive racemes of large flowers, which are 

 white, tipped with bright pink; it blossoms during May and June.— Jiidia. 



A. ORTGIESIANUM, Bchh. f. — A species allied to .1. qidncjuevidneruvi. The 

 sweetly-scented flowers are pale yellow, faintly spotted with rose ; petals and 

 sepals tipped with a dingy red ; the lip is pale, almost white, spur beneath the 

 lip tipped with green ; the side-lobes of the lip are, unlike those in most species 

 of AUrides, clasped together instead of being erect. A rare plant. 



Fig. — Xciiia Orchidacea, iii.t. 252, f. 1-7. 



A. PACHYPHYLLUM, Bchh. f.— A. fine plant imported along with A. crnssi- 

 folium. It has short very thick fleshy loaves, blunt and unequally bilobed at 

 the apex, and short racemes of handsome light crimson-lake flowers, of which 

 the sepals and petals are oblong-ligulate, the spur and column white, and the 

 small insignificant lobes of the lip painted with purple.— Buriraa/t. 



A. QUINQUEVULNERUM, Lindley.—A splendid free-flowering Orchid of free 

 habit, less compact-growing than many other species; the ligulate leathery 

 light-green leaves are rounded and obliquely emarginate at the apex, with a 

 small interjected apiculus. The racemes are pendent, densely flowered, longer 

 than the leaves, the flowers having the sepals and petals white, spotted with 

 rosy purple, and marked with five deep rosy purple spots at the tips ; the tip of 

 the lip is green, the sides pink, and the middle a deeji crimson; it blooms m 

 July or August, and lasts two or three weeks in bloom. There are several 

 varieties, some with much richer coloured fiowers than the others. This plant 

 was formerly extremely rare, but it has recently been imported m large 



