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with Oclontoglossums, and should be potted in a mixture of 

 peat and sphagnum ; a moderate supply of water all the 

 year round will be found necessary for their well-being. 

 They are increased by dividing the plants, taking care to have 

 a leading growth or eye to each piece. 



E. antennifera, Humb. Bonpl. and Kunth. — This is a 

 very elegant little plant, with short slender tufted stems, 

 which support a single ovate-lanceolate leathery dark green 

 leaf, and from amongst them other short slender stems which 

 bear the exceedingly curious and handsome flowers, in which 

 the sepals are very long, the upper one lanceolate, running 

 out into a filiform apex more than an inch long, yellowish 

 white streaked with purple, the lateral ones directed down- 

 wards and connate into a broad lanceolate bipartite con- 

 spicuous segment, which is reddish crimson profusely dotted 

 with blackish purple ; the petals are antennae-like, narrow, 

 clubbed at the ends, and similar in colour to the dorsal sepal ; 

 the lip is small and of the same colour as the lateral sepals. 

 It is well deserving a place in every collection for its extreme 

 beauty, free-flowering properties, and curious structure. It 

 blooms throughout the whole of the summer months. — 

 Colombia. 



Ym.—Illust. Hort., t. 601 ; Humh. BoujJl and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 riant, i. t. 94. 



Syn. — Ji, maculata, 



R. elegans, Karsten. — A pretty little plant, which very 

 much resembles the preceding in habit, but is dwarfer. The 

 tufted stems bear broadly elliptic leathery leaves, and from 

 their base the pretty flowers, Avhich, though not so large as 

 those of B. antennifera, are very curiously marked. The 

 dorsal sepal is lanceolate, white streaked with purple, 

 lengthed out into a yellow filiform tail, and the united 

 lateral sepals are oblong emarginate, concave, yellow thickly 

 marked with lines of small purple dots ; the petals are small 

 and resemble the dorsal sepal, and the small lip is panduri- 

 form emarginate, yellow spotted and edged with red. It 

 succeeds admirably in the cool house, with the treatment 

 recommended above. — Colombia ; Caracas. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. .5966; Flore des Serves, t. 743; Karst., Auswahl 

 nener und Gen. Ven., t. 2. 

 StN. — H. punctulata. 



