BARKERIA ELEGANS. Native of Mexico. 
A small growing but charming species with slender pseudobulbs surmounted with 
a few lanceolate leaves. The racemes are erect and stout and carry a few flowers 
each about 2 inches across. The sepals and petals are broad, spreading and slightly 
twisted. They are rosy-lilac in colour. The lip is large and spoon-shaped, and 
is white dotted with crimson and with a large blotch of maroon-crimson in the 
front. The column is broad and winged, yellowish in colour with crimson spots. 
Blooms in the Spring. Flowers last about 4 weeks. Ordinary bushhouse treat- 
ment in the warmer parts and glasshouse culture in cool regions. 
Syn. Epidendrum elegans. 
DIACRIUM BICORNUTUM. Native of British Guiana and Trinidad. 
One of the finest of the Cattleya type. The stems are about a foot in height—are 
fusiform in shape and furrowed and hollow in the centre. The leaves are 
oblong, pointed, leathery, and dark green. The flower stems grow from the sum- 
mits of the matured stems and carry up to about 12 large pure white flowers, the 
centre of the lip being sparsely spotted with crimson. It has two hollow horns 
between the lateral lobes—the middle lobe being lanceolate. Flowers in early 
Summer, the blooms lasting about a fortnight. Requires warm, moist conditions. 
(Syn. Epidendrum bicornutum). 
ENCYCLIA ALATA. Native of Mexico. 
A fragrant and very variable species with small ovate pseudobulbs with two 
sword-shaped leaves. Flower spikes spring from the top of the pseudobulb and 
carry a cluster of good-sized flowers with narrow sepals and petals, which are 
green in the lower part and reddish-purple thence to the apex. The lip is broad 
and blunt, the middle lobe waved. It is straw-coloured, striped and spotted 
with carmine. Flowers in Summer and lasts for about 6 weeks. 
(Syn. Epidendrum alatum.) 
ENCYCLIA DICHROMA. Native of Brazil. 
An outstanding species with clustered ovate pseudobulbs up to 6 inches in height, 
on which grow two or three dark green, rigid, leathery leaves from 6 inches to a 
foot or more in length and rounded at the apex. The flower scape grows from 
between the leaves at the apex of the pseudobulb, and reaches a length of from 
14 feet to 2 feet and carries a considerable number of flowers from 2 inches to 
3 inches across. In the type species the narrow sepals and broad petals are pure 
white; the trilobed lip is a bright rose pink with a white margin tinged with 
yellow at the base, the middle lobe being rounded in front, while the laterals 
curl over the column. In the variety known as amabile the sepals and petals are 
rosy pink, while the lip is purple. 
Variety striatum has white sepals and petals veined with deep purple. Flowers 
at various times of the year. It requires warm, moist treatment. 
(Syn. Epidendrum dichromum.) 
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