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upper are golden orange-coloured, and the larger denticulate one pale yellow. 

 We saw this plant well-flowered with W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead. It 

 is an almost continuous successional bloomer. — ]Sfew Grenada : Popayan, elevation 

 6,200 feet. 



Fia. —Eevue Hort.. 1882, p. 554, with tab. 



E. ARACHNOGLOSSUM CANDIDUM, Bchl. /.—A beautiful white variety, 

 with " only the lateral calli orange." It was discovered by M. E. Andrd. 



E. ARONIATICUM, Baiem. — This cannot be called a pretty plant, but it 

 diffuses a most agreeable odour throughout the house ; the small branches are 

 available for room decoration. Pseudobulbs pear-shaped, bearing a pair of 

 ligulate acute leaves, which are leathery in texture, deep green and persistent ; 

 panicle somewhat sparingly branched, many-flowered, flowers powerfully but 

 agreeably scented ; sepals and petals thin in texture, the latter much the broader, 

 all light yellowish-green ; lip three-lobed, side lobes narrow, triangular ; middle 

 lobe oblong-acute, apiculate, undulated, white in front, veined with deep reddish- 

 violet. Flowers in spring and summer. — Ouatemala. 



FlG.—JBatem. OrcJi. Mea-. i-t Guat., t. 10 ; Bef. Bot., ii. t. 89. 

 Syx. — E. i!iou7niens, Lindl. 



E. ATRO-PURPUREUM, Willd. — A very beautiful evergreen species, of free- 

 flowering habit, with ovate or obpyriform rugose pseudobulbs, bearing two 

 ligulate-oblong leaves, and terminal erect peduncles, with well-furnished racemes 

 of handsome flowers ; the ouneate-oblong sepals and petals, incurved at the tips, 

 are green at the base, brown above ; the three-lobed lip large, pure white, with a 

 feathered crimson blotch at the base of the roundish flabelliform deeply notched 

 front portion. It blooms in April and May, and lasts five weeks in good condition 

 if the flowers are kept free from damp. — Guatemala, Neio Grenada, Venezuela {?), 

 Antilles. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 3534 ; Annates dc Gand, 1846, t. 86 ; Hooker, First Cent. Orcli. 

 PI., 1. 18 ; Orchid Alhivi, iv. t. 149 ; Lindcnia, ii. t. 49 (var. Band!'). ; Jowrn. of Hort .. 

 1888. xvii. p. 29, f. 4 (var. Randi') ; The Garden, 1887, xxxii. p. 370. t. 619 (var. alhnm') ; 

 Gard. Mag., 1893, p. 546 (var. Randi'). 



Stn. — IE. macrooMlum. 



E. ATRO-PURPUREUM ROSEUM, Bchh.f.—A beautiful variety of E. atro-pur- 

 pureum, in which the broad ample lip is wholly dark rose colour ; it blooms at 

 the same time as the type, and lasts long in beauty. It is equally with it a most 

 desirable plant. — O^iatemala. 



Fig. — Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat.. t. 17 ; Pnxfoii, Mag. Bot., xi. p. 243, with tab.; 

 Flore (le.s Serves, t. 306 ; Pescatorea, t. 27 ; L'lU. Hort., t. 541 ; Veitch's Man . Orch. PI., 

 vi. p. 87. 



E. AURANTIACUM, Batem. — A distinct species, similar in growth to Cattleija 

 SMnneri; indeed, the stems so nearly resemble those of that plant as to lead to 

 its being often mistaken for it. The stems are olavate, a foot high, two-leaved, 

 and producing their flowers from a sheath at the top of the stem. The leaves are 

 oblong emarginate, flat, leathery ; the flowers are in short somewhat drooping 

 dense racemes, of a bright orange, with the lip of the same colour, striped with 

 crimson ; the sepals and petals lanceolate ; and the lip oblong cucullate, the base 



