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the Kepals and petals ; the lip is white with three linear acute depressed mauve 

 keels, the semi-ovate basilar calli being white ; there is a single purple-spot on 

 each side of the laoinia of the androclinium " (H. G. Seichenbaoh, in Oardeners' 

 Chronicle, N.S., 1885, xxiii. p. 566). — Native country not stated. 



E. FLOS AERIS. — See Eenanthera moschipeiia. 

 E. FORMOSUM.— Sec E. alattjm. 



E. FRAGRANS, Swart::. — This plant, although not a showy kind, really 

 deserves a place in the stove, on account of the perfume it yields. , It should be 

 grown in the intermediate house. Pseudobulbs fusiform, compressed, bearing a 

 single lanceolate leaf, which is recurved at the point, deep green and persistent ; 

 scape stort and few-flowered ; flowers very fragrant, creamy-white ; lip upper- 

 most, cuspidate, creamy- white, streaked with crimson. Blossoms in the summer 

 and autumn months. — West Indies; Tropical America. 



Fig.— .Bof. Mag., t. 1669. 



E. FRAGRANS MEGALANTHUM, Lindl.— It appears to be a gigantic form, 

 being very much stronger in its growth. The flowers are large and very fragrant, 

 and the lip is broadly streaked with deep crimson. It was introduced by 

 Mr. Skinner, but we have not seen it for a long time. If it does not exist any 

 more in our collections, it is a very desirable plant to re-introduce. Blooms in 

 summer and autumn months. — Quatemala. 



E. FREDERICI GUILIELMI, Warsc. et Rchh. f. — An erect-growing evergreen 

 species of ornamental character, with tall robust stems 1 inch in diameter at the 

 base, clothed with distichous cuneate obovate shortly acuminate leaves 1 foot 

 long and 4 inches broad ; the stems grow out into a purple peduncle, supporting 

 a short broad many-flowered raceme, the long pedicels being also of a purple 

 colour ; the flowers are of a rich crimson ; the sepals and petals are narrow 

 lanceolate, acute, the lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes roundish semi-oordiform, 

 the middle lobe tongue-shaped, acuminate, with two large blunt rhomboid calli 

 at its base, the calli as well as the apex of the column being white, hence the flowers 

 appear to have a white eye. It flowers in June, and being of fleshy texture the 

 blossoms last for a considerable time. — Northern Peru, elevation 6,000 — 8,000 feet. 



Fig. — Xenia Orcli., i. t. 51 ; V211. Hurt., 3rd ser., t. 48 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 19. 



E. FULGENS — See E. Schombuegkii. 



E. GODSEFFIANUM, Bolfe. — This new species was imported by' MessrS. F. 

 Sander & Co., from the same district as Oattleya labiata. " It bears some re- 

 semblance to this species in shape, but is very different in colour, in which respect 

 it is more like E. hifidwm, whose shape, however, is very different. The bi-lobed 

 lip unmistakably places it in this group, though in general appearance it more 

 nearly resembles some other species, whose lip has not this character, which 

 suggests the query whether the species could not be more naturally arranged by 

 some other character. This point, however, may be left for the present. 

 E. Godseffiamm, has the general habit of other species of the group, and the 

 flowers measure over 1\ inch across ; their colour is light green, somewhat nerved 

 with light brown, except the lip.which is white, the front lobe being lined with bright 

 rose-purple" (R. A.Eolfe, in Oardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1892, xi. p.l36). — Brazil. 



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