382 orchid-geower's manual. 



E. CORIACEUM.— See E. variegatuii cokiaceum. 



E, CRASSIFOLIUM — See E. ellipticum. 



E. CYCNOSTALIX — See E. STAMrOKDiANUM. 



E. DELLENSE,0'5to}i. — This hybrid was raised in the collection of Baron 

 Sir J. H. W. Schroder, between E. xanthinum and E. radicans. " Flowers in a 

 terminal head, from twenty to fifty each, 1 inch across ; sepals and petals equal, 

 orange-tinted vermilion, darker in the older flowers ; lip erect, yellow, toothed 

 or jagged at the tips of the nearly equal three-lobes, which bear three prominent 

 wart-like projections at the base; column slightly cvtrved" (J. O'Brien, in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1891, ix. p. 584). — Garden hybrid. 



E. DICHROMUKI, lAndl. — A beautiful and showy species, with orate fusiform 

 two-leaved pseudobulbs, 3 to 6 inches long, rigid ligulate leaves rounded at the 

 apex, and scapes 3 feet high, bearing bold panicles of flowers, 2 inches in diameter ; 

 the sepals are linear-lanceolate, and the petals obovate, both pure white, and the 

 lip lengthened out, deeply three-lobed, the lateral lobes turned up over the column, 

 rose-coloured, yellow and downy at the base, the middle lobe obcordate, ribbed 

 on the disk, with white margin. A most desirable species, '• rivalling the best 

 of the Barkerias." — Bahia. 



¥lQ. —Z'OrcMdopMle, 1887, p. SOi. 



E. DICHROMUM AMABILE, Batem.— This lovely variety differs from the pre- 

 ceding in having the sepals and petals rose-coloured faintly tinged with yellow. 

 Side lobes of lip rich purple ; mid-lobe wholly rich crimson-purple, with darker 

 streaks margined with white. — Bahia and Pemmnhuco. 



Fie. — Bot. Mag., t. 5491 ; Batem. Second Cent. Oreh. PI., t. 112 ; L'OrcJddopMlc, 

 1887, p. 304 (E. amahile) ; Orcldd Album, x. t. 452. 



Syn. — JH. amabile. 



E. DICHROMUM STRIATUM, Jec7i&./.— A very beautiful variety of E. dichro- 

 'mum, in which both sepals and petals are white, and all the veins marked out by 

 radiating deep purple lines. — Bahia. 



E. DIOTUM, Lindl. — A pretty plant, but one seldom seen. The pseudobulbs 

 are ovate, lengthened out, bearing a single, somewhat stiff and spreading leathery 

 leaf, which is about a foot long, deep green and persistent, scape as long again as 

 the leaves, bearing numerous flowers, which are upwards of 1 inch across, and 

 very sweet-scented ; sepals and petals nearly equal, obovate, acute, with waved 

 edges, cinnamon-brown in colour; lip thick and fleshy, yellow streaked with deep 

 brown. Flowers in the summer months. — Guatemala. 



E. EBURNEUM, Bchb. f. — ^A handsome and very commendable species, the 

 flowers of which have something the aspect of those of a Brassavola. It grows 

 2 feet high, its erect fascicled terete stems being furnished with large spreading 

 linear-oblong obtuse amplexical coriaceous leaves of a deep green colour, placed 

 alternately upon the stems. The raceme is terminal, consisting of four to six 

 flowers, which have linear-lanceolate acuminate sepals 1^ inch long, white tinted 



