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proceeds from the apex of the pseudobulb. The lanceolate 

 sepals and obovate petals are brilliant golden yellow spotted with 

 dark purple, and the lip is white at the base, profusely marked 

 with bright purple. The flowers, although small, are produced 

 in such profusion as to render this a most ornamental plant. 

 It blossoms in September and October. — Venezuela; New 

 Grenada. 



E. SchomMrgMi, Lindley. — A very handsome species in 

 the way of i?. cinnabarinum andE. radicans, having the upper 

 portion of the stems leafless but furnished with sheathing 

 bracts, and terminating in a short close or corymbiform 

 raceme of rich vermilion-scarlet flowers. The leaves are dis- 

 tichous, oblong obtuse, fleshy, and in the wild plant bordered 

 with crimson dots. The sepals and petals are linear-lanceo- 

 late ; the lip three-lobed, strongly keeled, and bicallose at the 

 base, the lateral lobes broad semiovate, rounded and lacerate 

 behind, the front lobe cuneate gradually widening upwards, 

 the edge denticulate, and the apex with a short triangular 

 cusp. The form of the lip offers considerable variation, a 

 frequent change being that the lobes run nearly together into 

 one circular plate. — Demerara ; Brazil ; Peru. 



'FlG.—Bot. Reg., 18C8, t. JS ; Maund, Bot, iv. t. 165 ; Duperrey, Voy., t. 

 43. 



S YN. — E. fulgent, 



E. Stamfordianuill, Batem. — ^A handsome spotted-flowered 

 species of very distinct character, being one of the few species 

 which produce a radical inflorescence. It has fusiform pseudo- 

 bulbs a span long, tapering below into a slender scaly foot- 

 stalk, andterminatedby three or four oblong obtuse coriaceous 

 leaves six or seven inches long. The peduncle rises from the 

 root and bears a large many-flowered panicle of fragrant 

 blossoms which are an inch and a half across, of a bright 

 yellow tinged with green, thickly decorated with blood-red 

 spots, those of the petals being larger and fewer than those 

 on the sepals, while the lip has the lateral lobes creamy white 

 and the front lobe yellow, the latter being sparingly spotted. 

 The sepals and petals are lanceolate, the lip three-parted, 

 flat, the lateral lobes large oblong, the middle one transversely 

 oblong, emarginate, and fimbriate. The type is described 

 as having a vivid violet spot at the base of the lip, while in 

 the variety pictum there is a crimson line down the centre of 

 that organ. It blooms in April and May, lasting a considerable 



