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of wood without any moss, and flowered five or six years in 

 succession ; but in the seventh year it seemed to lose its 

 vigour, and never flowered afterwards, probably because the 

 block began to decay and get sour. We have seen plants do 

 well in pots and baskets with peat and good drainage. It 

 delights in an abundance of heat and moisture. — Trinidad, 

 Demerara. 



'FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3332 ; Jennings, Orch., t. 21 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., v. 

 245, with tab. ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 157. 

 Stn. — Diacrium bicornutum. 



E. Brasavolse, Bchb. f. — This fine and remarkable species 

 derives its name from the resemblance in shape which the 

 flowers bear to those of a Brassavola. It has obpyriform 

 compressed pseudobulbs a span long, producing from their 

 apex a pair of oblong acute leaves, between which appears 

 a short pointed spathe, from which the tallish scape bearing 

 many flowers emerges. The flowers are large — four inches 

 across — but the parts are narrow ; they are very attractive 

 and very durable, the sepals and petals of a rich clear tawny 

 yellow ; the rhombeo-acuminate lip, which is wedge-shaped at 

 the base, is yellowish white in the lower half, the front 

 acuminate portion being of a beautiful mauve, and the disk 

 traversed by two or three carinate lines. The flowers are 

 sweet-scented in the evening. In its general habit the plant 

 resembles a large form of E. prismatocarpum. It will succeed 

 well in the Mexican house. — Central America: Veragua; 

 Guatemala, elevation 8,000 feet. 



'Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5664. 



E. CatilluS, Rchh. f. et Warsc. — A distinct and pretty 

 species of the Amphiglottium, group, having tall leafy stems, 

 clothed below with stout distichous oblong acute leaves, chan- 

 nelled down the centre and sheathing at the base, the stems 

 nmning out into long stout scaly peduncles, terminating in 

 erect racemes of numerous highly- coloured showy blossoms, 

 having bright red ovaries and pedicels. The sepals and petals 

 are narrow, obovate-lanceolate, acute, of a deep cinnabar red, 

 the sepals being glaucous on the outer surface ; the three- 

 lobed projecting lip is vermilion, the lateral lobes semicordate 

 oblong retrorse, toothed on the outer margin, the front lobe 

 narrow triangular bifid, toothed at the ends and connate at 

 the base, with a large obovate yellowish callus, the disk cari- 

 nate. Its tall habit makes it useful for grouping, and it 



