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from whicli the tallish scape bearing many flowers emerges; the flowers arc 

 large, 4 inches across, but the parts are narrow ; they are very attractive and 

 very durable, the sepals and petals of a rich clear tawny yellow ; the rhombeo- 

 acuminate lip, which is wedge-shaped at the base, is yellowish- white in the lower 

 half, the front acuminate portion being of a beautiful mauve, and the disk 

 traversed by two or three carinate lines. The flowers are sweet-scented in the 

 evening. In its general habit the plant resembles a large form of E. prismaio- 

 carpum. It will succeed well in the Mexican house. — Central America : Veragua ; 

 Guatemala, elevation 8,000 feet. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 5664 ; Veltch's Man. Oreli. PI., vi. p. 90. 



E. CALOCHILUM.— See E. alatust. 



E. CAPARTIANUM, Linden. — Pseudobulbs pear-shaped, 3 to 4 inches long, 

 generally two-leaved, peduncle terminal-branched ; sepals and petals about equal 

 in size, olive-brown with yellowish margin ; lip three-lobed, cream colour at the 

 base, the remainder white, flushed with rose ; the middle lobe marked with seven 

 branched lines of rosy-purple. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Lindenia, vii. t. 333. 



E. CATILLUS, Rchh. f. et Warsc. — A distinct and pretty species of the 

 Amphiglotiium group, having tall leafy stems, clothed below with stout distichous 

 oblong acute leaves, channelled down the centre and sheathing at the base, the 

 stems running out into long stout scaly peduncles, terminating in erect racemes 

 of numerous highly-coloured showy blossoms, having bright red ovaries and 

 pedicels ; the sepals and petals are narrow, obovate-lanoeolate, acute, of a deep 

 cinnabar-red, the sepals being glaucous on the outer surface ; the three-lobed 

 projecting lip is vermilion, the lateral lobes semi-cordate oblong retrorse, 

 toothed on the outer margin, the front lobe narrow triangular bi-fid, toothed at 

 the ends and connate at the base, with a large obovate yellowish callus, the disk 

 carinate. Its tall habit makes it useful for grouping, and it succeeds well in a 

 cool house. — New Grenada : Western Cordillera. 



Fia.—L'lU. Sort., 3rd ser., t. 162. 



Syn. — U. imimrator. 



E. CILIARE, Linn. — A very old and curious species, the flowers of which 

 are most deliciously fragrant, especially at night ; the stems are clavate, that is, 

 the short fusiform pseudobulbs taper downwards into the scaly stalk ; the leaves 

 grow two together from the apex of the pseudobulbs, and are oblong obtuse, the 

 racemes of several flgwers rising from between them, each flower having a long 

 spathaceous bract at its base ; the sepals and petals are linear, pointed, greenish- 

 yellow, and the lip three-parted, white, the lateral lobes pectinately incised, and 

 the middle lobe setaceous, much longer than the side lobes. It blooms during the 

 winter months. — West Indies ; Tropical America. 



The E. cuspidatum, from the West Indies, a very similar plant, is considered 

 a variety of this species, but the flowers are larger and more yellow, and differ 

 chiefly in the middle lobe of the lip being linear-lanceolate and not appreciably 

 longer than the side lobes. 



¥lQ.—Bot. Llnj., t. 784 ; Id., t. 783 {cu.ipid atitm) ; Bot. Mag., t. 463 (cn,ip!datvvi) ; 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 10 {cu.tpidatu'ni') ; Redouti Lil., t. 82 ; Juvguin Aiiio/:, t. 179, f . 89. 



