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species all worthy of cultivation. It is found growing on rocks and trees, and 

 will do well in the Cattleya house. — Mexico. 



Fid.— Hot. Mag., t. 4606 ; Sot. Beg., 1844, t. 51 ; Lem. Jard. Fl., t. 253 ; JBatem. 

 'Second Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 135 ; L' Orchidophile, 18S8, p. 305 ; Lindenia, iv. t. 155 ; 

 Veitch's Man. Orcli. PI., vi. p. 107. 



Syn. — E . vervucosum, Hort. 



E. NEMORALE MAJUS, Warner. — This is a vastly superior variety of what is 

 in any form a most desirable plant. It is of the same style of growth and habit, 

 but bears a magnificent panicle of flowers, sometimes 3 feet long with seven 

 branches, the colours being paler and more delicate than in the type, the linear- 

 lanceolate sepals and petals being of a. very light tint of rosy-mauve, and the 

 large front lobe of the lip distinctly white in the centre with the three short red 

 lines very distinctly marked ; the smaller acute falcate side lobes are of a deeper 

 rose, and reflexed at the ends. — Mexico. 



Fig.— IFaraec, Sol. Orch. PI., i. t. 13. 



E. NIGRO-MACULATUIVI,— See E. pmsmatocaepum. 



E. O'BRIENIANUM, Rolfe. — A cross between E.evectum and B. radicans. The 

 following description is from Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons' Catalogue, as we have 

 never seen this plant, which is, we believe, the first hybrid obtained in gardens 

 in. this genus, and one which should be an ornament in the cool house. "In 

 habit it much resembles E. radicans as it bears roots along the stems like that 

 species. The floral segments are longer than in E. evectum, but have the same 

 general shape ; the column is almost as straight as in E. evectum, while in 

 E. radicans this organ is curved. The shape and cutting of the lobes of the lip 

 are also much like those of E. evectum ; finally, the coloration is very interesting ; 

 in E. evectvmi the whole flower is of a clear purple, while in E. radicans the 

 segments are orange-scarlet, the apex of the column and centre of the lip being 

 deep yellow ; in the hybrid the colour is an uniform brilliant carmine, with a 

 trace of the orange-shade, the pair of crests on the lip being bright yeUow." 

 Flowers in the spring and summer months. — Garden hyhrid. 



Via.— Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 771, i. 103. 



E. PANICULATUM, Ruiz et Parore.— This is a noble plant, with leafy stems, 

 3 or 4 feet high, in the way of those of E. myrianihum. The dark green leaves 

 are distichous oblong-lanceolate acuminate, often spotted beneath with purple; 

 the. flowers are produced from the top of the stem in a dense branched nodding 

 panicle upwards of a foot long, many-branched, and bearing a profusion of lovely 

 rosy-lilac fragrant blossoms, which are produced in April, and last a long time in 

 beauty ; the sepals are small spathulate ligulate, the petals almost filiform, and 

 the lip deeply f our-lobed. It will succeed in a cool house. — Peru ; Bolivia ; New 

 Grenada. 



FlQ.—Sot. Mag., t. 5731 ; Z'lll. Hort., 3rd ser., t. 211 ; Lindenia, i. t. 7. 



E. PARKINSONIANUM— See E. jalcaotm, 



E. PAYTENSE, Bclib. f. — A very pretty species, with roundish stems, short 

 oblong acute leaves, and racemes of flowers of a most brilliant scarlet- vermilion, 

 the lip orange, spotted with dark vermilion. Introduced by Dr. Wallace. — 



U.S. of Oolovibia. 



