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the former being the troadost, in front pale yello-w, 

 streaked and mottled with rich brown ; lip deeply 

 cut; creamy-white, tinged with rosy-pink. Spring 

 months. Guatemala, 7,000 to 8,000 feet elevation. 



C. Cooperianum. — This is a very 

 distinct and tare species. Stems 

 erect, one to two feet or more 

 high, clothed with stiff lanceolate 

 leaves, arranged in a distichous fr 



manner; raceme many-flowered, 

 flowers thick 

 and fleshy ; 



,tals yellow- 

 ish-brown; 

 lip large and 

 broad ; deep 

 bright rose. 

 Spring and 

 early sum- 

 mer. Brazil. 



H. dichro- 

 mum. — The 

 pseudo-bulbs 

 smooth, and 

 slightly ta- 

 pering at 

 both ends, 

 bearing on 

 the summit 

 two to three 

 ligulate co- 

 riaceous leaves, -nliich arc lilrnit- 

 pointed, and nine to twelve, inches 

 long; scape erect, fi-om one to 

 two feet or more high, sometimes 

 branched, with numerous flowers 

 jiearly two inches in diameter : se- 

 pals and petals pure white, the lat- 

 ter much the hroader, whilst the 

 three-lobed lip is deep rose, stained 

 with yellow at the base, and bor- 

 dered with white on the margin. 



The variety amahile differs in 

 colour only; in this form the 

 fiepals and petals are bright rose, 

 and the lip intense crimson, with 

 & paler margin. Summer and 

 autumn. Brazil, about Bahia. 



E. eburneum. — A beautiful species, with erect 

 lender stems and alternate, sheathing, coriaceous, 

 Jark green leaves ; racemes terminal, bearing three 

 to six flowers, which measure about four inches in 

 diameter ; Sepals and petals pale yellow ; lip large, 

 cordate in front, ivory-white. Panama. 



JE. ellipticum. — Stems tender, erect, with short 



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coriaceous sheathing leaves, arranged in a two- 

 ranked manner. It varies considerably in height, for 

 we' are told that " it is frequently found growing 

 upon rooks, quite exposed ; in such situations it is a 

 dwarf plant, but when it grows 

 m moist thickets it attains to up- 

 wards of four feet in height. 

 .\lthough very nearly allied to 

 the next species it differs in its 

 elliptical, blunt, succulent leaves ; 

 its flowers 

 are paler; 

 and especi- 

 ally in the 

 form of the 

 tubercle of 

 the lip, which 

 is deeply 

 f urr we d 

 or plaited, 

 shouldering 

 ofE to the 

 lateral lobes, 

 and is not 

 furnished 

 there with a 

 free tubercle, 

 as in K elon- 

 ffatum." The 

 flowers are 

 light rose, 

 and the ra- 

 mi IS termm\l and erect. 

 Lirgan Slountaius, Brazil. 



i'. ihjiiijatiiiii. — The habit is 

 very similar to the preceding. 

 The leaves are longer and thin- 

 ner, more o^■atc and acute, the 

 raceme is more dense, and the 

 peduncles longer, and the flowers 

 are deep bright rose. It is widely 

 distributed throughout the islands 

 of ilartiniqne, Dominica, Trini- 

 dad, and Antigua. It is- also 

 found in Caracas. 



£. eriilieseeih'. — This is a ramb- 

 ling plant, with long woody 

 stems, and forming its fusiform 

 pseudo - bulbs some six inches 

 apart. It roots freely on the under side, and in 

 this way it runs over the Oak-trees, and produces 

 its large panicles of rosy mauve-coloured flowers in 

 great profusion. Mexico, about Aaxaca, at from 

 6»000 to 8,500 feet elevation. 



£. evecium. — A species with the habit of £. elon- 

 ffatum; its stems are branching, and it bears in 



