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folded over the column, and having three elevated lines on the disk. It blooms 

 in March, April, and May, lasting six weeks in perfection if kept in a cool house. 

 There are two varieties of this plant, both of which we have had growing in the 

 same house under the same treatment. The best variety opens its flowers freely, 

 while in the other they keep nearly closed— a peculiarity which renders the latter 

 not worth growing. — Mexico and Guatemala. 



Fia.—Batcm. Orch. Mcx. et Gnat., t. 12 ; Gartciijiora, t. 158. 

 Syn. — B. aureum, t. Rchb. 



E. AUREUM.— See E. aurantiacum. 



E. BASILARE.— See E. Stamfohdianum. 



E, BICAMERATUM, Mchb.f. — This species appears to hare been imported from 

 Mexico with a batch of E. vitelUnum. Pseudobulbs compressed, oblong, fusiform, 

 t^^-o-leaved. " It is quite like E. viiellinum in growth, but the flowers are totally 

 different, ochi-e-coloured, with a deep brown disk ; the lip white, oohre-coloured 

 at its base " (H. Gr. Reichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 1869, p. 710). 



Syn. — a. KarwinsltU. 



E. BICORNUTUM, Hool:. — A remarkably handsome Orchid, which Bentham 

 separates with three other species to constitute the genus Diacrium, distinguished 

 by its lip being spreading instead of adnate to the base of the column, and by the 

 presence of two hollow horns between its lateral lobes. It has fusiform furrowed 

 stems a foot or more in height, the younger ones leafy at the summit ; the leaves 

 distichous, ligulate-oblong, leathery, dark green ; and the peduncles terminal on 

 the mature stem.s, sometimes producing in one raceme as many as twelve beauti- 

 ful flowers, each about 2 inches across, of a pure white, with a few crimson spots in 

 the centre of the lip, which has an elongate lance-shaped middle lobe. It blooms 

 in April and May, lasting two or three weeks in beauty. This species is rather 

 difficult to cultivate. The best plant we ever saw was grown on a block of wood 

 without any moss, and flowered Ave or six years in succession ; but in the seventh 

 year it seemed to lose its vigour, and never flowered afterwards, probably because 

 the block began to decay and get sour. We have seen plants do well in pots and 

 baskets with peat and good drainage. It delights in an abundance of heat and 

 moisture. — Trinidad, Demerara. 



Fig. — Hut. Mag., t. 3332 ; Jonnings, Orch., t. 21 ; Pa.rton, Mag. But., v. 245. with 

 tab. ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 157 ; (iard. C'hmn., Svd ser., 1887, ii. p. 45, f. 11 ; Lindenia, 

 vii. t. 296 ; Veitch's Man. Orch.I'l.,\i.,Tp.7y ; The Garden, 1887, xxxii. p. 371 (woodcut). 



Syn. — Diacrium licornutum. 



E. BITUBERCULATUM, llolfe. — This new species has been recently flowered 

 b}- Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. It is allied to E. Sclwmburghii according to Mr. 

 llolfe, who says, " It is a smaller and more slender plant, with smaller rosy- 

 IJurple flowers, resembling E. elongaium in colour" {Kew Bulletin, 1892, p. 210). 

 — Native country not stated. 



E. BR ASSAVOLAE, Mclib. f. — This fine and remarkable species derives its name 

 from the resemblance in shape which the flowers bear to those of a Brassavola. 

 It has obpyriform compressed pseudobulbs a span long, producing from their 

 apex a pair of oblong acute leaves, between which appears a short pointed spathe, 



