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Brazil. With the habit of E. fuscatum and bifo- 



ratum, but with much shorter leaves, and longe bracts 

 than the latter. The flower-stem is about ten inches 

 long in the Brazilian specimens. (Not in cultivation.) 



** Lip more or less lobed, but in no degree fringed. 



4. E. cornutum (Lindl. in Hooker's Journal, 3. 86.) ; foliis 



gramineis lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis, racemo elongato 

 cylindraceo cernuo, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 

 striatis, petalis filiformibus, labelli trilobi laciniis latera- 

 libus nanis rotundatis intermedia cornuta basi S-callosa. 



PerUy Columbia. Spathaceous bracts acuminate, 



imbricated, as long as the flower- stem. Flowers white, 

 very fragrant. (Not in cultivation.) 



5. E. ovalifolimn (L. no. 39) ; foliis distichis ovali-lanceolatis 



acutis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis linearibus, 

 labelli trilobi cordati lobis lateralibus rotundatis : inter- 

 medio lineari bilobo disco 3-carinato basi bituberculato, 



racemo elongato. Mexico. A Mexican species 



with green flowers like those of E. nutans, but not 

 panicled, nor proceeding from a spathe, and smelling 

 very like a sliced cucumber. Some of the old stems are 

 three feet long. 



6. E. Clowesii (Bateman in litt.) ; foliis lanceolatis racemo 



longioribus (an semper ?), bracteis minimis mucronatis, 

 sepalis oblongo-linearibus, petalis filiformibus reflexis, 

 labelli trilobi 3-carinati ecallosi lobis subundulatis rotun- 

 datis intermediobilobo. Guatemala. Nearly allied 



to E. ovalifolium, from which it differs in having three 

 distinct raised lines on the lip, but no basal calli, and a 

 very short raceme overtopped by the leaves. Flowers 

 yellowish white. 



7. E. fuscatuin (Swartz, L. no. 38. B. R. t. 67. B. M. t. 



2844. Bot. Cab. t. 887. Ep. anceps, Jacq. Amer. 224. 

 t. 138. Amphiglottis lurida, Salisb. — Var. j3, floribus 

 minoribus magis viridibus. E. virescens, Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t, I867. E. musciferum, Lindl. in Hooker's Jour- 

 nal, 1. 6. — Var. 7, floribus multo majoribus, labello 

 violaceo luteo-marginato. E. viridipuiyureum, Hooker in 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3666.) ; foliis oblongis undulatis apice 

 recurvis, sepalis oblongis, petalis linearibus, labello car- 



