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the stem about July, and continuing to bloom for some time during summer 

 and autumn. The leaves are ensiform, pale green ; and the flowers, which grow 

 several together on a terminal spike, are large, with pale magenta rose sepals 

 and petals and a rich rose lip striped with orange lines on each side of the 

 white throat. — India: Nepaul, Burmah, &c. 



Vm.— Griffith, Not. PI. Asiat., iii. t. 314 ; Wi-gJit, Icon. PI. Ind. Or., v. t. 1661 ; 

 Qrchid Album, Hi. t. 139 ; Gard. Cliroa., 3rcl series, iv. 1888, p. 629, fig. 87. 

 Syn. — Cymlidium iamhusaefolium ; Bletia graminifolia. 



A. DENS A, Lindley. — .An attractive species, with stems three feet high, 

 clothed with lanceolate sub-equal stem-sheathing leaves, and bearing a close 

 terminal head of handsome rosy-violet flowers, with a crimson-bordered lip ; 

 these flowers are as large as those of A. bamhiisaefolia, an dsweet-scented. — 

 Singapore. 



710.— Bot. Meg., 1842, t. 38. 



Asp ASIA, Lindley. 

 QTribe Vandeae, eubtriie Oncidieae.) 

 This is a small genus of epiphytes containing plants of dwarf habit. 

 The pseudobulbs are broad and oval, and, like the leaves, dark green. 

 The flowers are in racemes on axillary peduncles ; the sepals are 

 spreading, and at the back, with the petals, adnate to the base of the 

 column, but not spurred. The few species are Tropical American. 

 Eeichenbach includes the genus in Odontoglossum. 



Gulture. — These plants require'' the same treatment as the Miltonias. 



A. LUNATA SUPERBA, Hort. — This beautiful variety of an old acquaintance 

 in our gardens bloomed some years ago with us, and proved'to be very fine. 

 The sepals and petals are long, white at the ends, and spotted with chocolate ; 

 the lip is rather large, subquadrate, white, with the centre deep violet. A 

 ■compact-growing plant, well deserving a place in any collection. — Brazil. 



Fig.— (A. lunata) Xenia Orch. i. t. 34 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., 1. 108, fig. 74. 



Syn. — (A. lunata) Aspasia odorata; Odontoglossum lunatum; Miltonia odorata 

 iSort. 



A. ODORATA. — See A. luxata stjperba. 



SAEjKEEiIA, Knowles and Westcott. 



(Tribe Epidendreae, subtribe Laelieae.) 



These plants are now often included in the genus lUpidendrum, but for 



the purposes of the cultivator it is more convenient to keep them separate. 



'They have stems somewhat thickened and fleshy, or narrow fusiform 



pseudobulbs, leafy above ; the column is connate with the base of the lip, 



