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base, purple upwards, and the roundish three-lobed lip pale 

 yellow, the broad blunt crispy middle lobe elegantly striped 

 and spotted with rosy purple on the elevated veins. They 

 continue five or six weeks in beauty. There are several 

 varieties of E. alatum, but that known as the variety majus, 

 distinguished by its larger size, is the only one worth the 

 attention of amateurs. The E. alatum of the Bot. Reg. is E. 

 amhigimm. — Mexico. 



'FiG.—Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 18 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3898 ; Paxt. Fl. 

 Card., i. t. 30; Lem. Jard. tl., t. 81. 



Syn. — E. longipetalum ; E. calochilum ; E.formosum. 



E. amabile.— See Epidendrum dichromum. 



E. aradmoglossum, Rchb. f. — A free-flowering and very 

 showy plant, in which the stems are erect, simple, terete, 

 clothed below with distichous oblong-lanceolate obtuse fleshy 

 leaves, above which they run out into elongate rigid erect 

 vaginate scapes, bearing at the end a short corymbiform 

 raceme of violet-crimson flowers. The flowers are small, 

 with oblong acute deep violet-crimson sepals and petals, and 

 a lip of the same colour, three-lobed, the lateral lobes roundish 

 and deeply pectinately-laciniate, the middle lobe cuneiform, 

 deeply bilobed, the lobes similarly lacerate, having on the 

 disk a callus of five tubercles, of which the four upper are 

 golden orange-coloured, and the larger denticulate one pale 

 yellow. We saw this plant well-flowered with W. Lee, Esq., 

 Downside, Leatherhead. It is an almost continuous succes- 

 sional bloomer. — jS!eiv Grenada : Popayan, elevation 6,200 

 feet. 



FiG.—Eev. Eori., 1882, 554, with tab. 



E. atropurpureum, Willd. — A very beautiful evergreen 

 species, of free-flowering habit, with ovate or obpyriform 

 rugose pseudobulbs, bearing two ligulate-oblong leaves, and 

 terminal erect peduncles, with well-furnished racemes of 

 handsome flowers. The cuneate-oblong sepals and petals, 

 incurved at the tips, are green at the base, brown above ; 

 the three-lobed lip large, pure white, with a feathered crimson 

 blotch at the base of the roundish flabelliform deeply notched 

 front portion. It blooms in April and May, and lasts five weeks 

 in good condition if the flowers are kept free from damp. — 

 Guatemala, New Grenada, Venezuela, (?) Antilles. 



'FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3534 ; Annates de Gnnd, 1846, t. 86 ; Orchid Album, 

 iv. t. 149. 



Stn, — E. macrochilum. 



