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and are about an inch wide, six to ten inches long, tapering 

 to a point. The flowers grow in terminal nodding racemes, 

 rarely compound, emerging from a spathe of several blunt 

 sheathing equitant pale green bracts, and are fleshy, about an 

 inch and a half across, on long pedicels, numerous, creamy 

 yellow outside, the inner surface nearly covered with blotches 

 of rich crimson-brown ; the sepals are oblong obtuse, the petals 

 linear, and the lip three-lobed, the side lobes larger, rounded 

 and entire, and the middle lobe wedge-shaped, cleft into two 

 blunt segments, creamy white tinted with rose, as also is the 

 prominent club-shaped column. Being of strong-growing 

 habit, and throwing out large fleshy roots, it requires abundant 

 pot-room and good drainage. It was flowered first by the 

 late Sir P. Egerton, Bart., at Oulton. — Guatemala, elevation 

 7,000 feet. 



YiG.—Bot. 3Iag., t. 5656. 



E. Cooperianuni, Batem. — A beautiful species, with stout 

 erect rigid stems, growing from two to three feet high, neat 

 and compact in habit, and thickly clothed in the upper part 

 with stifi" distichous lanceolate sharp-pointed leaves. The 

 flowers, which are of a leathery texture, grow in drooping 

 dense many-flowered racemes, and are of a pale olive green 

 or yellowish brown, with the large three-lobed lip of a bright 

 rose colour ; the lateral lobes are large and roundish, and the 

 smaller central one kidney-shaped and emarginate. A most 

 desirable species, and of easy culture in the Cattleya house. — 

 Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5654. 



E. diclironilllll, Lmdley. — A beautiful and showy species, 

 with ovate fusiform two-leaved pseudobulbs, three to six inches 

 long, rigid ligulate leaves rounded at the apex, and scapes 

 three feet high, bearing bold panicles of flowers, two inches 

 in diameter ; the sepals are linear-lanceolate, and the petals 

 obovate, both of a fine rose colour, and the hp lengthened 

 out, deeply three-lobed, the lateral lobes turned up over the 

 column, white, purple at the spreading ends, the middle lobe 

 obcordate, ribbed on the disk, of a rich deep crimson-purple 

 with white margin. The flowers vary in colour, the sepals 

 and petals being sometimes nearly white. A most desirable 

 species, " rivalling the best of the Barkerias." — Bahia. 



FJG.—Bot. Mn(j., t. 5491 J Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 112. 



Stn.— £. amabile. 



