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in beauty for three months. It is best grown in a pot in peat, with good 

 drainage. "When the plant becomes tall it should be trained round some sticks, 

 which is the best way to make it flower. We have known the late Mr. Woolley, 

 of Cheshunt, to have the same plant in flower for twelve months at a time. — 

 Mexico: Guatemahi. 



I^IG- — PaJ-ton. Mag. Bot ., xii. p. U5, witli tab. ; Orchid Alhim, iv. 1. Ifll. 

 Syx , — E. rhlzophornm . 



E. REPLICATUM, Lliidl. — This species is frequently met with in collections, 

 but is not well known. It thrives either in a pot or upon a block of wood ; under 

 the latter system we have had it do best, and in the temperature of the intermediate 

 house. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, bearing a pair of long narrow strap-shaped 

 leaves, which are acuminate, leathery in texture, deep green, and persistent ; 

 racemes terminal, 1 foot to 18 inches long, many-flowered ; sepals and petals 

 yollowish-brown, with a marginal border of yellow ; lip three-lobed, the side-lobes 

 erect, the sides of the front lobe turned downwards, white, streaked and veined 

 with rosy-pink. Blossoms in the summer months. — Xcv: Grenada. 



E. RHJZOPHORUM.— Sec E. eadicans. 



E. SANGUINEUM — See Brougiitoni.v sa.vguinea. 



E. SCEPTRUM, Lindl. — A very old and pretty species, but very rare in 

 cultivation. It is quite distinct in growth, having compressed pear-shaped 

 pseudobulbs 1 foot long, long thin remote lorate leaves, and erect racemes 1 to 

 "2 feet long, bearing very numerous flowers, as many as three dozen sometimes 

 being collected in one raceme, the peduncle of which proceeds from the apex of 

 the pseudobulb ; the lanceolate sepals and obovate petals are brilliant golden 

 yellow spotted with dark jjurple, and the lip is white at the base, profusely 

 marked with bright pui-ple. The flowers, although small, are produced in such 

 profusion as to render this a most ornamental plant. It blossoms in September 

 and October. — Vcae::uela; yev: Grenada. 



Fig.— Mot. -Vug., t. 7109. 



E. SCHOMBURGKII, Lindl. — A. very handsome species in the way of E. cinna- 

 barinum and E. radicans, having the ujijier portion of the stems leafless but 

 furnished with sheathing bracts, and terminating in a short close or corymbiform 

 raceme of rich vermilion-scarlet flowers. The leaves are distichous, oblong 

 obtuse, fleshy, and in the wild plant bordered with crimson dots ; the sepals and 

 petals are linear-lanceolate ; the lip three-lobed, strongly keeled, and bi-callose at 

 the base, the lateral lobes broad semi-ovate, rounded and lacerate behind, the 

 front lobe oimeate gradually widening upwards, the edge denticulate, and the 

 apex with a short triangular cusp; the form of the lip offers considerable varia- 

 tion, a frequent change being that the lobes run nearly together into one circular 

 plate. — Demerara ; Bra::il ; J'cni. 



YlG.—But. Beg., 1S3S, t. .">3 : Maunil, Bot.. iv. t. ICJ : Dupcrrcy, Toy., t. 43. 



Syx. — E.fulgcn.i. 



E. SECUNDUM.— See E. elgngatuji. 



E. SKINNERII.— See Barkebia Skinn-ekii. 



