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ORCHID-GKOWER S MANUAL. 



A. COERULEA, Rchh.f. — A rare and beautiful Orchid, having strong creeping 

 stems and large pyriform monophyllous bulbs; the spike springs from the side 



of the bulb, and produces from 

 three to five flowers ; sepals 

 cuneate, oblong, acute, concave ; 

 petals cuneate, elliptic-apiculate, 

 yellowish, light blue inside and 

 outside, lip blade transverse reni- 

 f orm, undulate at margins, brown 

 or bordered with light ochre. — 

 Rio JSfegro. 



^IG.— Gardeners' Chrun., x. s. 

 XXV., 1886, p. 720 ; OrcUd Albnm, 

 viii. t. 374. 



AGANIBIA COEBULEA. 



A. CYANEA, XmdZpi/. — A very 

 fine and distinct Orchid, with 

 blue flowers, allied to Huntleya 

 and Warrea, but distinguished by 

 its long narrow hypochil, saccate 

 and five-lobbed in front, its short 

 three-horned mesochil, and its 

 concave epichil, which is ribbed 

 at the base. The pseudobulbs 

 are ovate, one-leaved, the leaves 

 are upwards of a foot long 

 and three inches broad, tapered . 

 below into a furrowed petiole ; and the flowers, which are as large as those of 

 Odontoglossum Pescatorei, grow in close erect five-flowered racemes on peduncles 

 about a foot long. The sepals and petals are subrotund, apiculate, light blue, 

 paler within, and the lip light bluish purple with pale veins, the back and 

 wings of the column streaked with red. The blue of the flower is almost 

 pure. In habit the plant most resembles a creeping Maxillaria, forming a 

 long rhizome between the pseudobulbs. It should be grown on a block. — 

 Brazil. 



Fig. — Lindenia, iii. t. 110. 

 Syif.- — Aeacallis cyanea. 



A. lONOPTERA, Rchh. fil— This plant was first found by Gustav Wallis, 

 and at first sight reminds one of a Bletia ; leaves narrow lanceolate, spike 

 seven to ten flowered, individual flowers about one inch in diameter, sepals 

 white flushed with purple, petals bluish purple, lip white lined with purple.^ 

 South America. 



'Fig,.— Lindenia, vi. t. 287 ; Bot. Mag., t. 7270. 

 Sisr. — Koellensteinla ionoptera. 



A. PULCHELLA, Lindley. — A rare and pretty dwarf Orchid, having a, 

 creeping rhizome, with very small pseudobulbs at intervals, each furnished 

 with a solitary oblong five-ribbed leaf eight inches long, and producing from 

 the base of the bulb erect racemes of flowers an inch and a half across, which 



