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and the middle one linear-acuminate, entire. It blooms 

 during the summer months, and lasts long in beauty. This 

 plant is best grown in a basket with moss. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3778 ; Bate77i. Orch. Mex. et Guat, t. 25. 

 Syn. — E. Parkinsonianum ; E. aloi folium; E. lactiflorum. 



E. rriderici Guilielmi, Warsc. et Rchb. f. — An erect-grow- 

 ing evergreen species of ornamental character, with tall 

 robust stems an inch in diameter at the base, clothed with 

 distichous cuneate ob ovate shortly acuminate leaves a foot 

 long and four inches broad. The stems grow out into a 

 purple peduncle, supporting a short broad many-flowered 

 raceme, the long pedicels being also of a purple colour. 

 The flowers are of a rich crimson ; the sepals and petals are 

 narrow lanceolate, acute, the lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 roundish semicordiform, the middle lobe tongue-shaped, 

 acuminate, with two large blunt rhomboid calli at its base, 

 the calli as well as the apex of the column being white ; 

 hence the flowers appear to have a white eye. It flowers 

 in June, and being of fleshy texture the blossoms will no 

 doubt last for a considerable time. — Northern Peru, elevation 

 6,000—8,000 feet. 



'Fm.—Xenia Orch., i. t. 51 ; Jll. Hoi't., 3 ser. t. 48 ; Puydt, Les Orch., 1. 19. 



E. HanlDlirii, Lindley. — A distinct and well-marked species, 

 which, though not so showy as some of its congeners, is worth 

 growing on account of its pleasing colour. It has largish 

 ovate pseudobulbs, broad ensiform leathery leaves, and scapes 

 about two feet high, bearing well-filled racemes of flowers ; 

 the epathulate sepals and petals are deep purple, and the 

 three-lobed lip pale rose with radiating crimson veins. It 

 blooms during the spring months, lasting long in beauty. — 

 Mexico. 



Fig.— Gartenjlora, t. 398. 



E. ibaguense, Humb. et Kunth. — A very handsome species, 

 with tall slender stems as thick as a swan's quill, leafy in 

 the upper portion, the leaves \exy fleshy, oblong obtuse, 

 and stem-clasping, the extreme end of the stem leafless, 

 and terminating in a dense almost globose head of orange- 

 coloured flowers with a yellow obcordate lip, the lateral lobes 

 of which are cordate, rounded at the tip and fimbriate. — New 

 Grenada ; Peru. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 390. 



