312 ORCHID- GEO WER'S MANUAIi. 



succeeds well in a cool house. — New Grenada : Western Cor- 

 dillera. 



Fia.—lll. Hort., 3 ser. t. 162. 

 Syn. — E. imperator. 



E. ciliare, Linnmis. — A very old and curious species, the 

 flowers of which are most deliciously fragrant, especially at 

 night. The stems are clavate, that is, the short fusiform 

 pseudobulbs taper downwards into the scaly stalk. The 

 leaves grow two together from the apex of the pseudobulbs, 

 and are oblong obtuse, the racemes of several flowers rising 

 from between them, each flower having a long spathaceous 

 bract at its base. The sepals and petals are linear, pointed, 

 greenish yellow, and the lip three-parted, white, the lateral 

 lobes pectinately incised, and the middle lobe setaceous, 

 much longer than the side lobes. It blooms during the winter 

 months. — West Indies ; Tropical America. 



The E. cuspidatum, from the West Indies, a very similar 

 plant, is considered a variety of this species, but the flowers 

 are larger and more yellow, and differ chiefly in the middle 

 lobe of the lip being linear-lanceolate and not appreciably 

 longer than the side lobes. 



'EiG.—Bot. Reg., t. 784 ; Id., t. 783 (cuspidatum) ; Bot. Mag., t. 463 

 (cuspidatum); Locld. Bot. Cab., t. 10 (cuspidatum); Redoute LiL, t. 82; 

 Jacquin, Amtr., t. 179, fig. 89. 



E. cinnalDarilLllin, Salzm. — A tall-growing plant, having 

 leafy stems four feet high, which are furnished with oblong 

 distichous leaves slightly recurved at the point, and bear ter- 

 minal corymbiform racemes of bright scarlet flowers ; these are 

 produced in abundance in May, June, and July, and continue 

 in succession for two or three months. The sepals and petals 

 are lanceolate, scarlet, the lip three-lobed, keeled, with a 

 pair of calli at the base, the side lobes deeply incised, the 

 front lobe contracted in the middle, than suddenly wedge- 

 shaped, with the angles prolonged into one or two fine teeth ; 

 the colour of the lip is orange-yellow spotted with red. — 

 Brazil; Venezuela. 

 Fia.—Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 25 ; Eartinger, Farad., t. 14. 



E. cnemidophorum, Lindley. — This is a rare and strikingly 

 handsome cool house Orchid, one which the late lamented 

 Mr. Skinner had so much difficulty in getting home alive. 

 It is a vigorous-growing plant, forming tufts of stout leafy 

 stems four to six feet in height. The leaves sheath the stem, 



