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flowers are over 1 3/4 inch across. The ovary, somewhat stained with vinous purple, 
is obscurely triquetrous, 3/5 inch long. The segments of the perianth are yery 
spreading-reflexed, somewhat fleshy, chiefly the sepals, yellowish-green, strongly 
stained, except the claw, with vinous-red, forming irregular bandlets blended at 
the apex. The sepals are rather concave, narrowly obovate, obtuse, somewhat 
thickened at the apex, especially the lateral ones, which bear at their lower face 
a small, somewhat mucronate, keel; they are about 11-12 lines long and 5-6 lines 
broad; the petals are ovate-trapezoidal, a little asymmetrical, distinctly ungui- 
culate, obtuse or roundish at the tip, 10 1/2-11 lines long and 7-8 lines broad. 
The lip is wholly free, or at the most connate with the base of the column within 
half a line, 1 inch long, very deeply notched right and left a little beneath the 
middle, forming two large, roundish, very entire lateral lobes; the front lobe 
is broader than long, rather deeply emarginate, somewhat wavy on the margin. 
The disk bears on the level of the lateral sinuses, two strong ribs diverging in 
their middle into a central deep and narrow cavity, and, in the upper part, five 
short very tenuous ribs; the base is yellowish white, the remainder white delicately 
stained with rose, the front lobe marked with seven radiating lines of a very 
bright purple; the lateral lobes are also marked with several minute lines of the 
same colour. The column is green, passing into yellow towards the apex of the 
flat, orange-coloured, anther-case; it is 2/5 inch long, roundish above, with a 
rather deep frontal lower depression, and at the apex, two quadrangular auricles 
spreading forward; the margin of the clinandrium is scarcely waved. 
From the above characters we may conclude that E. Capartianum belongs 
to the sub-genus Encycliwm of Linky (lip nearly free; flowers naked; stem swollen 
into a pseudobulb) and to the section Hymenochila (lip three-lobed, with the front 
lobe membranaceous, notably larger than the lateral ones), as well as to the 
third group of that section, including the species “ with the front lobe of the lip 
distinctly bilobed. ” It is rather closely allied to E. dichromum Linvu., E. Feni- 
schianum Reus. F. and E. Randi Bars. Ropr. in Vellosia, I, p. 123 (E. atropur- 
pureum var. Randi L. Linp. and Rop., Lindenia, 11, tab. 49), with respect to the 
column bearing in front two short wings or auricles at the apex. It is chiefly near 
the latter, which, however, has the segments of the perianth longer, narrower 
and acute; the disk of the lip has not the depression mentioned above, and the 
column bears at the back an obtuse keel. Respecting E. atropurpureum, the column 
of that species has two wings extending from the base to the apex, instead of 
being winged only at the apex. 
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