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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 
Engelmannia—continued. 
American plants). Syn. Angelandra. Orv. Composite. 
A monotypic genus. ‘The species is an erect, hardy, peren- 
nial, pubescent herb. It thrives in ordinary garden soil, 
and may be increased by seeds or by divisions. 
E. pinnatifida (pinnatifid). /l.-heads golden-yellow, lin. to 2in. 
in diameter, corymbosely paniculate ; involucral bracts in several 
series; ray florets eight to ten, female; disk hermaphrodite, but 
sterile. July. J. petiolate, 2in. to 5in. long, oblong, sinuate- 
pinnatitid to below the middle ; lobes toothed, entire, or lobulate. 
h. 1ft. to 2ft. Prairies of North America, 1881, (B. M. 6577.) 
EOMECON (from eoos, Eastern, and Mekon, a Poppy: 
so called on account of its systematic position close to the 
Poppies, and its native country in Hastern Asia). Orb. 
Papaveracee. A monotypic genus. The species is a 
beautiful, hardy, perennial herb, intermediate between 
Stylophorum and Sanguinaria, differing from both in the 
scapose habit, racemose flowers, and sepals confluent in a 
boat-shaped spathe; and further from Stylophorwm in the 
colour of the flowers and form of the leaves, and from 
Sanguinaria in the four petals, elongated style, and 
stigmatic lobes alternating with the placentas. It 
thrives in any fairly good soil, and may be increased 
by divisions. 
E. chionantha (snowy-flowered). 1. white, with yellow stamens, 
Poppy-like, lin. to 2in. in expanse; pedicels slender; flower- 
stem loosely branched. Summer and autumn, J. all radical, 
long-stalked, with a roundish-cordate, sinuate or coarsely crenate 
blade, 3in. to 4in. long and nearly as broad, China, 1885, 
(B. M. 6871.) 
EPACRIS. To the species and varieties described on 
pp. 511-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added: 
E. purpurascens. Two very attractive, double varieties are : 
alba, With blush-white, and nivalis, with pure white, flowers. 
1883. 
EPIDENDRUM. Tropical America is the head- 
quarters of this genus. To the species and varieties 
described on pp. 512-4, Vol. I., the following should now 
be added. Unless otherwise specified, stove treatment 
is required. 
E. amabile (lovely). A synonym of EF, dichromwin, 
E. arachnoglossum (cobweb-lipped). /. reddish-purple (car- 
mine-violet), in a short, corymbiform or roundish raceme ; sepals 
and petals acute, recurved; lateral lobes of lip roundish, pecti- 
nate, the middle one cuneate, deeply bilobed; column violet, 
club-shaped. J. distichous, alternate, glabrous, sessile, oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse, fleshy. Stems tufted, erect, naked above. 
New Grenada, 1883. (R. H. 1882, p. 554.) 
E. a. candidum (white). /. wholly white, with the exception 
of the orange lateral calli of the lip. 1886. 
E, atropurpureum album (white). A white-lipped variety. 
E, a. Randi (Rand's). _/l., sepals and petals greenish-brown, with 
paler margins; lip white, large, marked with contiguous, red 
veins at the base. Amazons, 1886. Syn. E. Randianum (L. 49). 
E. Barkeriola (Barkeriola). /., sepals and the light rose- 
coloured petals nearly equal; lip white, with a deep purple 
blotch and some short purple lines on the disk, where there are 
two raised lines, pandurate or obovate; raceme one-sided. 
1. lanceolate, acute, wavy, reddish beneath and on the margins. 
1884. Syn. Barkeria Barkeriola. 
E, Christyanum (Christy's). 1. greenish and brown, in an erect 
raceme; sepals oblong, apiculate; petals spathulate; lateral 
seements of lip sub-quadrate, extrorse, the middle one triangular, 
apiculate ; column trifid. 7. ligulate, acute. Pseudo-bulbs long- 
pyriform, two-leaved. Bolivia, 1884, 
E. ciliare (ciliated). 1. fragrant, several in a raceme, each with a 
long bract at base; sepals and petals greenish-yellow, linear, 
acute; lip white, three-parted, the lateral lobes pectinately 
incised, the middle one setaceous, much longer. Winter. J. in 
pairs. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, obtuse. Tropical America. (B. R. 
84.) E. cuspidatum (B. M. 463; B. R. 783; L. B. C. 10) is 
considered a variety of this species, but the flowers are yellower 
and larger, and the middle lobe of the lip is linear-lanceolate, 
and not appreciably longer than the side ones. 1844. 
E. cuspidatum (cusp-pointed). A variety of F. ciliare. 
E. densiflorum (dense-flowered). A variety of E. polyanthum. 
E. Endresii (Endres’). jl. as large as those of EF. ellipticwm ; 
sepals white, tipped green, the upper one cuneate-oblong, acute, 
the lateral ones triangular; petals white, spathulate; lip 
blotched mauve, curiously eut, with two triangular edges at the 
base, the anterior lacinia cuneate-obreniform. /. about a dozen, 
like those of Box. Costa Rica, 1883, (G. C. n.s., xxiii, p. 504.) 
Epidendrum—continued. 
E. Flos-aéris (air-flower). A synonym of Arachnanthe mos- 
chifera, 
E. fraudulentum (fraudulent). /. light rose-coloured, small, 
the column and lower part of the ovary purple, the keel and calli 
yellow. 1886. 
E. fulgens (brilliant) A synonym of E. Schomburgkii. 
E. ibaguense (Ibague). fl. in a dense, almost globose head ; 
sepals and petals orange; lip yellow, obcordate, the lateral lobes 
cordate, rounded at the tip and fringed. /. very fleshy, amplexi- 
caul, oblong, obtuse. Stems tall, slender, the upper portion 
leafy, the extreme end leafless. New Grenada, Peru. (F. M. 390.) 
E, ionocentrum (violet-spurred). _/l., sepals and petals lemon- 
coloured, spotted with greenish-brown, lanceolate, acuminate ; 
lip white, violet or purple in the centre; raceme twenty to 
twenty-four flowered. Pseudo-bulb broad. Otherwise like 
E. Brassavole, 
E. Kienastii (Kienast-Zélly’s). (/., sepals and petals very light 
rose, with darker purple veins, the sepals lanceolate, the petals 
very cuneate at base; lip white, with fine purple, callose lines 
on the wavy mid-partition, the side partitions cuneate-ligulate, 
two-toothed outside; raceme several-flowered. J. usually two, 
aoe long, 4in. to lin. broad, cuneate-oblong, acute. Mexico, 
E. Mathewsii (Mathews’). #., sepals and petals stained 
purplish outside, small, nearly transparent, the lateral sepals 
connate half-way up; lip deep, dull blood-purple, shining, or- 
bicular, bifid at apex, convex above, concave beneath, completely 
concealing the lateral sepals. /. distichous, rigid, fleshy. Stems 
short, procumbent, 1886. 
E, O’Brienianum (O’Brien’s). A hybrid between E. evectum and 
E. radicans, and in habit very much resembling the latter. In 
colour the flowers are a brilliant carmine, faintly shaded orange, 
except the crests on the lip, which are bright yellow, as in 
E. radicans ; the segments are longer than in E. evectum, but have 
the same general shape, and the lobes of the lip are much like 
those of the last-mentioned species. The plant, like its parents, 
grows rather tall. 
E. oncidioides (Oncidium like). 1. yellow, blotched brown, very 
fragrant; sepals and petals obovate, unguiculate; lip three- 
lobed, the lateral lobes narrow, obtuse, flat, much shorter than 
the roundish, cuspidate middle one, the disk three-keeled ; 
panicle long, racemose, J. two or three, 2ft. long, lsin. wide. 
Stem 3ft. to 4ft. high. Surinam. (B. R. 1623; I. H. ser. v. 28.) 
E. paytense (Payta). jl. of a brilliant scarlet-vermilion, with 
some orange on the lip, which is also marked with some darker 
spots. J. short, very strong, oblong, acute, tinted purplish- 
brown. Shoots stiff, with purplish-brown sheaths. Columbia 
and Peru, 1885. 
E, polyanthum (many-flowered). jl. orange or salmon-colour, 
with a strong scent of cowslips; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
striated ; petals linear, reflexed ; lip three-lobed, three-ribbed, 
the lateral lobes sub-cuneate, retuse, the middle one retuse ; 
panicle strict, simple. J. distichous, ovate-lanceolate, acute. 
Mexico, 1841. 
E. p. asperum (rough). A variety having the ovaries and rachis 
densely covered with small warts. 1885. 
E. p. densiflorum (dense-flowered). (fl. greenish, with a little 
pink on tbe edges and in the middle of the lip. 1836, Syn. 
E. densijlorum (B. M. 3791). 
E. pristes (saw-like). ., sepals and petals light cinnabar, 
lanceolate, the petals serrated in the upper half; lip yellow, 
spotted cinnabar, trifid, serrated, the mid-lobe small, bilobed, 
with a flexuose keel at the base of the disk. J. very minutely 
serrulated. Stems slender. 1886. A handsome plant. 
E. pseudepidendrum auratum (golden). /1., disk of the lip 
crimson, the borders deep orange. 1885. A fine variety. 
E. punctulatum (slightly dotted). . stellate, in a slender 
panicle; sepals and petals brown inside, green outside, lanceo- 
late, acute ; lip sulphur, with minute dots, trifid, the side laciniz 
square, the middle one sessile, ovate, acute, the mid-nerves 
thickened ; column brown and green; border of the anther-bed 
white, spotted brown, Mexico, 1885. Greenhouse. 
E. Randianum (Rand's). 
Randi. 
E. Sceptrum (sceptre). /. small, sometimes three dozen in a 
raceme; sepals and petals golden-yellow, spotted dark purple, 
the sepals lanceolate, the petals obovate; lip white at base, 
profusely marked bright purple; racemes lft. to 2ft. long. 
September and October. /. long, thin, remote, lorate. Pseudo- 
bulbs pear-shaped, compressed, lft. long. Venezuela. New 
Grenada. 
E. Schomburgkii (Schomburgk’s). 7. rich vermilion-scarlet ; 
sepals and petals linear-lanceolate; lip three-lobed, strongly 
keeled, bicallose at base, the lateral lobes broadly semi-ovate, 
rounded and lacerated behind, the front lobe cuneate, gradually 
widening upwards, the edge denticulate, the apex shortly 
cuspidate; raceme short, close or corymbiform. 7. distichous, 
oblong, obtuse, fleshy. Demerara, &c. A handsome species 
(B. iv. 165; B. R. 1838, 53.) Syn. E. fulgens. 
A synonym of E. atropurpureum 
