384 oechid-geower's manual. 



E. ERUBESCENS, Lindl. — A magnificent species of very distinct habit, 

 making long woody rhizomes, which root from the under side and bear the fusiform 

 two-leaved pseudobulbs at intervals of about 6 inches. The leaves are oblong 

 acute, and the flowers grow in ample flexuose panicles ; the oblong obtuse sepals 

 and similarly formed unguiculate petals are broad, and of a beautiful delicate 

 mauve, while the three-lobed lip, which has the middle lobe sub-rotund, and raarked 

 with three elevated veins, is of a darker shade of the same colour, and yellow at 

 the base. The flowers last in beauty for six or eight weeks, so that the species is 

 a very desirable one for the cultivator ; it is, however, somewhat difficult to grow. 

 We have found it thrive well on long blocks of wood in the cool house with 

 Odontoglossums, where it was always kept damp at the roots. — -Mexico. 



Fig. — Satem. Orch. Mex. et Gttat., t. 32. 



E, EVECTUM, Hoolc. fil. — A very well-marked and beautiful evergreen 

 species, which may be said to be a perpetual bloomer. It is one of the group 

 having tall leafy stems, the upper part of which runs out into a leafless peduncle 

 furnished with bracts, and terminating in the inflorescence ; the stems are 

 fascicled, bulbiform at the base, 3 to 5 feet high, branching and rooting, bearing 

 leaves towards the upper end ; the leaves are distichous, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, emarginate, leathery, and somewhat clasping the stem at their 

 base ; the peduncles run out from the top of the stem, and are bracteate with the 

 lower bracts sheathing, the apex bearing a short sub-cylindrical many-flowered 

 raceme ; the flowers have long pale red pedicels, and are of a deep magenta-purple, 

 the sepals and petals being narrowly obovate, and the lip three-lobed, the lateral 

 lobes cuneate, the middle one deeply parted into two sub-quadrate divaricate 

 segments, all the lobes being deeply lacerated at the outer margin. It is the 

 finest of the section to which it belongs, and its beautiful high-coloured flowers 

 last a long time in perfection. It has been grown at Kew for many years, flourish- 

 ing at the cool end of an intermediate house. — Supposed to lie from New Grenada. 



Via.— Bert. Mag., t. 5902 ; VeitcNs Man. Orcli. PI., vi. p. 128. 



E. FALCATUM, Lindl. — A rather handsome species when well grown. The 

 plant is pendulous in habit and very distinct from any of the other Epidendrwms, 

 having branching stems, which are sparsely leafy, the leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 thick, a foot long, and having a curiously tapered narrow point ; the flowers, 

 which are large, proceed from the top of the bulb, one or two together; the 

 sepals and petals are linear-lanceolate, 2 to 2^ inches long, of a pale yellowish- 

 green, tinted with olive-brown, and the lip is orange-yellow, three-lobed, the 

 lateral lobes large, semi-cordate, erose, and the middle one linear-acuminate, 

 entire. It blooms during the summer months, and lasts long in beauty. This 

 plant is best grown in a basket with moss. — Mexico. 



Fig. — Hot. Mag., t. 377S ; Batem. Orch. Mux. et Gnat., t. 25 ; Hook. First Cent 

 Orcli.Pl.,t. 14. 



Syn. — E. Pa/rJdnsonianuin ; E. aloifoUum ; E. laotiflorum. 



E. FALSILOQUUM, Rchh. f. — This species is allied to -B. verrucosum (Sivartz), 

 and was first flowered by Mr. W. Bull in 1885. " The anterior lacinia of the lip 

 has from its narrow base two diverging linear blunt shanks just as in 

 J?, verrucosum {Sttiartx) ; the leaves are linear acuminate, with purple lines on 

 the sheaths ; the general colour of the paniculate flowers is a whitish ochre for 



