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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
they receive it when in their natural state. The quantity must 
be regulated by the heat employed, reducing the one with the 
other, as when the plants are resting they scarcely require any. 
T will now give a description of a number of them.—the treat¬ 
ment and the temperature they require. 
1. JErides odoratum. So named from the delightful fragrance 
of its flowers. This genus does best in a basket, in a mixture 
of rotten wood and moss, and suspended in a temperature of 75° ; 
the leaves are bright green, and the sepals and petals are white, 
stained at the apex with purplish pink; the labellum is three- 
lobed, the two side lobes are white and the middle lobe narrow, 
of a pinkish colour; the spur of the labellum is pale pink.— 
Native of India. 
2. JErides odoratum major. This is similar to the first spe¬ 
cies, but of stronger growth, and also larger flowers ; it is called 
by some persons, JE . cornutum.—Native of India . 
3. JErides odoratum album. This is a variety of the first 
species, the flowers are white and fragrant; succeeds well on a 
log.— Native of India. 
4. JErides affine. (Derived from allied, or kindred.) The 
habit of this plant is different to the others, being more erect; 
the leaves are crisp, long, narrow, and of a bright green; the 
flowers are of a dull reddish brown.— Native of India. 
5. JErides Brookii. Now 7 changed to JE. crispum , from the 
stiffness of its leaves ; they are from six to nine inches long, and 
from one to two inches broad, dark green. It is a strong-growing 
plant, and handsome in its flowers, which are produced on the 
two year old stems, as with all this genus, and proceed from a 
spike or raceme, bearing from twenty to thirty flowers at a time. 
The ground colour is white, speckled and stained with purplish 
lilac.— Native of Brazil (I believe). 
6. JErides quinquevulnerum . So named from the branching 
of the roots. It is one of the finest of the genus ; its leaves are 
long and narrow, of a bright green ; the sepals and petals are 
pale green, almost white, aud slightly speckled or stained near 
the apex with purple; labellum three-lobed, the two side lobes 
are pinkish, spotted with purple ; the middle one is crimson, and 
the spur of the labellum is rather darker than the sepals.— 
Native of Manilla. 
John Henshall, K—y. 
( To be continued.) 
