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with pale citron-green, similar but somewhat narrower petals, and a large 

 orbicular-cordate ivory-wbito sessile lip, 1^ inch in diameter, and having two 

 small yellow calli at the base. The plant is well worthy of general cultivation. — 

 Panama : near Golon, in siva-mps. 

 Fia.— But. Mag., t. 5643. 



E. ELEGANS — See BAEKERi-i elegans. 



E. ELLIPTICUM, Graham. — Though not so ornamental as many of its con- 

 geners, this is a very pretty and lively-looking species on account of its free- 

 flowering habit. It has tall erect leafy stems, attaining a height of 2 or 3 feet or 

 more, furnished below with distichous elliptic blunt coriaceous sheathing dark 

 green leaves, the upperpart i-unning out into a long jointed bracteate peduncle, 

 terminated by a corymbiform raceme of rose-coloured flowers, which are produced 

 in profusion in March, April, May, and June, the plant continuing to bloom for 

 three or four months. The sepals and petals are obovate-lanceolate, and the lip 

 three-lobed, the lateral lobes roundish-cuneate, and the middle one larger and 

 obcordate, all of a pleasing rose colour. — Brazil. 



Via.— Bat. Mag., t. 3543 ; Hooh. Ex. Fl., t. 207 ; LoM. Bot. Cab., t. 1276. 

 Stn. — E. croissifolium. 



E. ELONGATUM, Jacg. — Inhabitof growth it resembles jE.eZJipiictim; the stems 

 are slender, erect, and leafy, but they are longer and thinner ; the leaves are ovate 

 and acute, and the flowers are briglit rich rose-colour. Flowers in spring and 

 early summer. — West Indies, &c. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 611. 



Syn. — B. secundum. 



E. ENDRESIt, Rchh.f. — ^A dwarf growing species with stems about a span high, 

 bearing small ovate-cordate leaves, about 1 inch long, hard and stiff like those of 

 Box. Eaceme terminal, erect. " The flowers are of the purest white, wax-like in 

 texture, the only colour being some prettily-arranged violet spots on the centre of 

 the lip, and its wings enclosing the column, and two raised orange-coloured marks 

 in the middle of the lip, and immediately beneath the cap of the column" 

 (J. O'Brien, in Gardeners' Chronicle). — Gosta Rica. 



Fig. — Gard. Citron., U.S., 1885, xxiii. p. 504, f. 91. 



E. ENDRESIO-WALLISII, Rnlfe.— This hybrid, between E. Wallisii and 

 JE. Endresii, was raised by Mr. Seden, and exhibited by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons 

 before the Eoyal Horticultural Society, January 12, 1892, when it was awarded 

 a first class certificate. The flowers are intermediate between those of the two 

 parents, and measure 1 inch in diameter ; the colours of the flowers seem to vary 

 considerably, some being described as having "the sepals and petals dotted with 

 maroon, and the four-lobed lip light yellowish-white irregularly blotched and 

 veined with dull purple ; in others the sepals and petals are darker except at the 

 base which is pallid, and the lip almost suffused with light purple and veined 

 with darker purple on the disk ; again, in others the sepals and petals are light 

 yellow at the base, and purple above " ; lastly, " the lower half of the sepals and 

 petals is described as yellowish-white, and the upper part suffused and spotted 

 with light purple; the lip is also suffused with this colour, but scarcely at all 

 veined" {Orchid Review, i. p. 104). — Garden hybrid. 



