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with three elevated veins, is of a darker shade of the same 

 colour, and yellow at the base. The flowers last in beauty 

 for six or eight weeks, so that the species is a very desirable 

 one for the cultivator ; it is, however, somewhat difficult to 

 grow. We have found it thrive well on long blocks of wood 

 in the cool house with Odontoglossums, where it was always 

 kept damp at the roots. — Mexico. 



'Em.—Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat, t. 32. 



E. eyectuin, Hook fil. — A very well-marked and beautiful 

 evergreen species, which may be said to be a perpetual 

 bloomer. It is one of the group having tall leafy stems, 

 the upper part of which runs out into a leafless peduncle 

 furnished with bracts, and terminating in the inflorescence. 

 The stems are fascicled, bulbiform at the base, three to five 

 feet high, branching and rooting, bearing leaves towards 

 the upper end. The leaves are distichous, four to six 

 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, emarginate, leathery, and 

 somewhat clasping the stem at their base. The peduncles 

 run out from the top of the stem, and are bracteate with the 

 lower bracts sheathing, the apex bearing a short subcylindrical 

 many-flowered raceme. The flowers have long pale red 

 pedicels, and are of a deep magenta-purple, the sepals and 

 petals being narrowly obovate, and the lip three-lobed, the 

 lateral lobes cuneate, the middle one deeply parted into two 

 subquadrate divaricate segments, all the lobes being deeply 

 lacerated at the outer margin. It is the finest of the section 

 to which it belongs, and its beautiful high-coloured flowers 

 last a long time in perfection. It has been grown at Kew 

 for many years, flourishing at the cool end of an intermediate 

 house. — Siqjposed to he from New Grenada. 

 YiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5902. 



E. falcatum, Lindley. — A rather handsome species when well 

 grown. The plant is pendulous in habit and very distinct 

 from any of the other Epidendrums, having branching stems, 

 which are sparsely leafy, the leaves oblong-lanceolate, thick, 

 a foot long, and having a curiously tapered narrow point. 

 The flowers, which are large, proceed from the top of the 

 bulb, one or two together ; the sepals and petals are linear- 

 lanceolate, two to two and a half inches long, of a pale 

 yellowish green, tinted with olive-brown, and the lip is orange- 

 yellow, three-lobed, the lateral lobes large, semicordate, erose, 



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