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callus at the base. The effect of the scarlet lip against the green sepals and 

 petals is charming, and is a combination of colours seldom met with. It was 

 introduced by M. Warscewicz, and flowers in January and February. — Central 

 America : Ohiriqui, elevation 4,000 feet. 



Fig.— Boi. Mag.,t. 5929; Xenia Orelb.,i.t. 53; Veitcli's Man.Orch.Pl.,\i. p. 113. 



Syn. — Pseudepidendrum speetabile. 



E. PUNCTATUM. — See Cyetopodium punctatum. 



E. PUNCTULATUM, Rchh. /.— " This is very near E. amabih. It is distinct 

 in the presence of a sessile ovate acute mid-lacinia, and in the side-laciniae of the 

 lip being square ; there is a slender panicle with stellate flowers ; sepals and 

 petals lanceolate acute, brown-green outside ; lip tri-fid, sulphur-coloured, with 

 minute brown point-like spots. Plant nearly as in E. vitellinum " (Reichenbach 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle, N.S., 1885, xxiv. p. 70). — Memco. 



E, PURUM, Lindl. — This is one of the pretty small-growing species with 

 slender stems, but it does not appear to have found that favour with the Orchid 



growers of this country which 

 the delightful odour of its 

 flowers should warrant it in 

 obtaining. Pot culture in the 

 cool end of the intermediate 

 house suits this plant admir- 

 ably. Stems erect, about 2 feet 

 long, stout for their length, 

 clothed with narrow obtuse 

 leaves, which are about 6 inches 

 long, less than ^ inch wide, 

 light green, persistent ; scape 

 terminal, bearing a slender, 

 nodding raceme of pure white 

 flowers, which yield a delight- 

 ful fragrance resembling helio- 

 trope. Flowers in spring and 

 summer months. — Caraccas. 



E. RADICANS, Favon.—A 

 pretty but shy-flowering ever- 

 green scandent Orchid, the tall 

 erect leafy stems often reach- 

 ing 10 feet in height; the 

 distichous leaves are ovate 

 oblong sub-cordate and par- 

 tially sheathing ; the bright 

 orange-scarlet flowers are pro- 

 duced in corymbiform racemes 

 on the leafless scaly terminal 

 growths, the sepals and petals 

 being acutely lanceolate, and the lip three-lobed, with the side lobes toothed, 

 and the cuneate bi-parted front lobe deeply laciniate ; the same spike will keep 



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