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three or four branches on each spike ; it is a profuse bloomer, and has been 

 exhibited with from thirty to forty spikes. It makes one of the finest of 

 exhibition plants, flowerinj^ about June or July, and continuing in blossom for 

 three or four weeks. — India. 



Fia.— Paxt. Fl. Oard.. t. 60: Hot. Maq., t. 4049: Lem.JuvH. J??., ii. t. 200 ; U. 

 Illmt. l[nrt.. t. 88 ; Gartenfl., t. 267. 



Sy.n-.— ^. affiiif, Hook, ct Hort. 



A. ROSEUM SUPERBUM, Jl/oorc— This is a splendid variety of the preced- 

 ing, the colour being richer and the flowers much larger. The plant is more 

 compact in growth, and is of a free-flowering habit, producing a large branched 

 spike. 



Fig.— !['« ;•»(■)•, ,S,/. Oi-ch. Pl.,:i ser. t. 22. 



A. RUBRUM. — A very nice cool-house species, with dark-green foliage ; a 

 very distinct plant, not so showy as many of the preceding ones, but well 

 worth growing ; indeed, any one that can appreciate Saccolabium ampullaceum 

 would like this, the colour being similar and the spikes longer. This plant 

 should be grown in the OJontogJossiim house. — Madras Hills. 



A. SANDERIANUM, Rdib. /.—This grand novelty, which was imported by 

 Mr. F. Sander, of St. Albans, after whom it is named, proves to be an important 

 and valuable acquisition, allied to *l. Lan-reneiac. It is of vigorous growth, 

 with broad short retusely bilobed leaves, and long well-furnished racemes of 

 handsome flowers, which are very large, measuring fully one and a half inch 

 from the tip of the dorsal sepal to the tip of the curved spur. The sepals and 

 petals are creamy white, distinctly tipped with magenta, recurved at the 

 margin, the lateral sepals broader and adnate on the lower side to the back of 

 the lip; the lip is large, the spur being fully half an inch in diameter, and very 

 attractive, having the upper half of the side lobes of a clear yellow and frilled 

 at the edges, while the middle lobe, which is folded up between them and looks 

 like a purple crest, is obovate, frilled at the edges, and of a bright magenta; 

 the lower end of the spur is greenish yellow. The little white column, which 

 resembles a bird's head, is quite hidden by the upper part of the lip or spur, 

 which closes over it. — Eastern Tropical Asia. 



A. SCHRODERI. — See AiiKiDES Ji.icuLOSCii Sciikodeki. 



A. SUAVISSIMUM, Lindlcy. — A distinct and desirable species of free growth, 

 having light-green foliage ten inches long, spotted with browia, and very long 

 drooping spikes of delicionsly-fragrant flowers, of which the sepals and petals 

 are white tipped with rosy pink, the incurved spur tipped with deep rose, and 

 the lip. which has a very small bifid middle lobe, has a blotch of pale lemon- 

 yellow in the centre. The blossoms are developed in July, August, and Sep- 

 tember, and last in good condition for three weeks. We have flowered several 

 varieties of this species, some of which have proved to be much better than 

 others. — Straits of Malacca. 



Via.—Paxt. Fl. Gard., t. (ili ; Lent. Jurd. FL, t. 213 ; Lindcnin. vii. t. 307 ; 

 Vcitch's Man. Oreh. PL, vii. p. "a. 



Syn. — A . flarldvm. 



