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E. dichronium Suriatnm, Bchh. f. — A very beautiful variety 

 of E. dichrom.um, in which both sepals and petals are white, 

 and all the veins marked out by radiating deep purple lines. 

 — Bahia. 



E. eburneuni, Echb. f. — A handsome and vei-y commend- 

 able species, the flowers of which have something the aspect of 

 those of a Brassavola. It grows two feet high, its erect fascicled 

 terete stems being furnished with large spreading linear- 

 oblong obtuse amplexicaul coriaceous leaves of a deep green 

 colour, placed alternately upon the stems. The raceme is 

 terminal, consisting of four to six flowers, which have linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate sepals an inch and a half long, white 

 tinted with pale citron-green, similar but somewhat narrower 

 petals, and a large orbicular-cordate ivory white sessile lip, 

 an inch and a half in diameter, and having two small yellow 

 calli at the base. The plant is well worthy of general culti- 

 vation. — Panama : near Colon, in swamps. 

 'FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6643. 



E. ellipticum, Graham. — Though not so ornamental as 

 many of its congeners, this is a very pretty and lively-looking 

 species on account of its free-flowering habit. It has tall 

 erect leafy stems, attaining a height of two or three feet or 

 more, furnished below with distichous elliptic blunt coriaceous 

 sheathing dark green leaves, the upper part running out in a 

 long jointed bracteate peduncle, terminated by a corymbiform 

 raceme of rose-coloured flowers, which are produced in pro- 

 fusion in March, April, May, and June, the plant continuing 

 to bloom for three or four months. The sepals and petals are 

 obovate-lanceolate, and the lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 roundish-cuneate, and the middle one larger and obcordate, all 

 of a pleasing rose colour. — Brazil. 



-piG—Bot. Mag., t. 3543 ; Hoolc. Ex. Fl, t. 207 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., 1. 1276. 

 SrN. — £. crassijblium. 



E. erubescens, Lindley. — A magnificent species of very dis- 

 tinct habit, making long woody rhizomes, which root from 

 the under side and bear the fusiform two-leaved pseudobulbs 

 at intervals of about six inches. The leaves are oblong 

 acute, and the flowers grow in ample flexuose panicles ; the 

 oblong obtuse sepals and similarly formed unguiculate petals 

 are broad, and of a beautiful delicate mauve, while the three- 

 lobed lip, which has the middle lobe subrotund, and marked 



