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it resembles Cattleya Skinneri. Flowers from the apex of the 

 bulbs, five to ten in a cluster on a short spike, and of the 

 brightest orange scarlet colour, very showy. It flowers in. 

 April and May, lasting a month or six weeks in beauty. There 

 are two distinct varieties of it in cultivation. 



E. Frederici Gulielmi. This is a rare and very beautiful 

 Peruvian species introduced by the energetic M. Linden. 

 Stems erect, leafy. Leaves six to eight inches long, one to 

 two inches broad, dark green ; panicle terminal, sepals and 

 petals about an inch long, lanceolate, of a deep crimson colour. 

 Lips trilobed, crimson in colour, the apex of the column and 

 the disc being pure white. It is a free blooming species and 

 very effective when well grown. 



E. myriantJmm. This is a free-flowering Orchid, very dis- 

 tinct in habit, a native of Guatemala, where it is found in 

 elevated localities. Stems three to four feet high, as thick as 

 a pipe stem. Foliage distichous, linear-oblong or lanceolate ; 

 flowers, small, of the brightest rosy lilac in dense panicles at 

 the extremity of the slender flower-stems. There was a fine 

 specimen of this at Manley Hall, near Manchester, which 

 flowered in October and November, 1872. 



*E. nemorale. This is a beautiful, though rare Orchid, which 

 has often been figured and erroneously called E. verrucosum. 

 It was introduced from Mexico in 1840. Pseudo-bulbs from 

 three to five inches high, two-leaved ; flowers freely produced 

 on large, drooping panicles ; individual flowers three inches 

 across ; sepals and petals lanceolate, of a delicate mauve or 

 rosy lilac colour ; the lip striped with violet ; flowers about 

 July, lasting a month. 



*E. prismatocarpum (Central America). Pseudo-bulbs in 

 shape somewhat resembling those of the old E. cochleatum, 

 of a bright, shining green colour, two -leaved ; spikes ter- 



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