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subæqualibus, labello libero oblongo cucullato basi co- 
lumnam involvente.— — Mexico, Guatemala. Flowers 
numerous, rich orange colour. Found on exposed rocks 
on the precipitous brows of ravines, where it is subject * 
to great extremes of heat and cold. 
$ LANIUM. 
Lanium, Zindl. l. c. 
Creeping scaly stems throwing up little leafy branches 
or even pseudobulbs; loosely arranged small long-stalked 
flowers, more or less covered with down, are the principal 
characteristics of this section, which has a lip adnate to the 
column. Its panicled or racemose woolly flowers distinguish 
it at first sight. 
1. E. microphyllum (Lindl. in Hooker's Journal, 3. 85.) ; 
caule repente squamato, ramulis foliosis, foliis distichis 
oblongis carnosis canaliculatis acutis serrulatis racemo 
terminali tomentoso multo brevioribus, bracteis membra- 
naceis pedicellis filiformibus multo brevioribus, ovario 
tomentoso, sepalis apice aristatis, petalis linearibus, 
labello oblongo acuto basi bilamellato venis tribus per 
medium obsoletis.—— Demerara, Berbice.——A small 
creeping plant, with woolly dull purple flowers. Messrs. 
Loddiges flowered it from Schomburgk's Demerara col- 
lections, and I have since received it from Mr. Bateman. 
2. E. Avicula (Lindl. in Hooker's Journal, 3. 85.); caule 
repente squamato, ramulis pseudo-bulbosis diphyllis, 
foliis ovatis planis margine levibus paniculä tomentosä 
multo brevioribus, sepalis lanceolatis acutis tomentosis, 
petalis linearibus, labello acuto subrhombeo basi bical- 
loso.—-— Brazil.— — The leaves of this curious plant are 
about an inch long; the panicle between three and four 
inches. The flowers are small, and when seen from the 
back may be not unaptly compared to a little bird in full 
flight. 
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§ AULIZEUM. 
Aulizeum, Lindl. L c. 
Among the species whose lip is united to the column, are 
those which, like E. ciliare, have that organ broken up into 
April, D. E 
