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It blooms during the spring months, lasting long in beauty. 

 Native of Mexico. 



E. macrochilum. — A. beaatiful species from Guatemala. The 

 sepals and petals are brown ; the lip large, pure white, with a 

 purple blotch at the base. It blooms in April and May, and 

 lasts five weeks in good condition if the flowers are kept free 

 from damp. It is more accurately called E. atropurpureum. 



E. macrochilum roseum: — A beautiful variety of the former. 

 The lip is large and wholly dark rose colour; it blooms at 

 the same time, lasts long in beauty, and is a most desirable 

 plant. 



E. myrianthum. — A charming plant from Guatemala, very 

 rare in cultivation, of taE but graceful habit, with dense 

 spikes of rich magenta flowers. It will not bloom if subjected 

 to much heat : the cool-house, therefore, will suit it best. 



E. nemorale majus.- — A compact evergreen species, with 

 pseudobulbs four inches high, bearing on the top two leaves a 

 foot long, of a light green colour, and producing panicles of 

 flowers which are sometimes three feet long, and, when ex- 

 panded, have a remarkably handsome appearance. It makes 

 a fine exhibition plant, on account of its being well adapted 

 for travelling, and from its distinct and pleasing colour, which 

 in the sepals and petals is dehcate rosy mauve, the hp being 

 white in the centre, with three short red lines, and bordered 

 with deep rose. It is found growing on rocks and trees, and 

 will do well in the Cattleya house. Native of Mexico. 



E. paniculatum. — This is a tall-growing plant, with thin 

 stem-like pseudobulbs, which attain a height of some three or 

 four feet, and are clothed with narrow dark green leaves. 

 The flowers are produced in a drooping branched panicle 

 upwards of a foot long, bearing a profusion of elegant pale 

 rose-coloured blooms. It will succeed in a cool-house. Native 

 of Peru, &c. 



