This is a high-resolution digital download of Plate 4139 from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. The original illustration was hand-colored in the 1800s. This listing includes both the botanical image and its accompanying description tab.

Perfect for art collectors, interior decor, or historical enthusiasts. No physical item will be shipped.

髮

TAB. 4139 AÉRIDES ODORÁTUM.

Fragrant Air-plant. Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEE.-GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. AERIDES. (Vide supra TAB. 4049.) noi!toq AERIDES odoratum; foliis flaccidis apice obtusis obliquis, racemis pendulis multifloris foliis longioribus, labelli cucullati infundibularis laciniis lateralibus erectis cuneatis rotundatis, intermedia ovata acuta inflexa, calcare incurvo. Lindl. AERIDES odoratum. Lour. Fl. Cochin. p. 525. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 212. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 239. AERIDES cornutum. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 63. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1485. One of the many lovely Orchideous plants of the East Indies, no less remarkable for the elegance of its spikes of flowers, than for their fragrance. Loureiro first detected it in China and Cochinchina; upon it founded the Genus Aerides, and says of it what is now known to be a property common to almost all Epiphytes. "Mirabilis hujus plantæ proprietas est, quod ex sylvis domum delata, et in aere libero suspensa, absque ullo pabulo vegetabili terreo vel aqueo, in multos annos duret, crescat, floreat, et germinet. Vix crederem, nisi diuturna experientia comprobassem." It was introduced to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Sir Joseph Banks from China, so long ago as 1800, and has been since sent from Dacca and Sylhet in the East Indies by Drs. Roxburgh and Wallich. It flowers during the summer months.

Botanical Description Stem branched, thick, rounded, leafy, rooting;

roots thick, fleshy. Leaves subdistichous, ligulate, carinate, and sheathing below, obtuse, coriaceous. Spike or raceme axillary, drooping, many-flowered, dense, highly fragrant. Peduncle terete, three to four inches long, bracteated. Flowers very delicate, cream-colour, fleshy, spotted and blotched with purple. Sepals and petals spreading, ovato-subrotund, upper • Thuney whiskers. sepal and petals smaller than the two lateral sepals. Label- lum somewhat infundibuliform, singularly curved, the lower portion ending in a blunt, curved spur; the limb very concave, three-lobed, with the segments incurved and connivent.

Figures

Fig. 1. Lip-magnified. (0101 82T ) .27 inhas eimson aiupildo aleido osi aibbon bloubo elini al aludibmi infinus illadal evdirogol idol hol szolni stavo cibomda basley sal andi Jaid omani 802.q.10.2 A 19 all to sly noshids Olsvol z In lige at to borgola el o aldex od Bobanel di o 50 of isin mobono xt doing et boobotai awal monarca caid med afael dosol i wod lo ban sopa molta gomis ased and b bill bits daudz dibal sils 50 10 sidewald mid teada Jasipalygina bowal)- diw Dododold bad botto balo da oliivė