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ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. 



E. VITELLINUM, Lindl. — A beautiful dwarf-growing plant, one of the most 

 brilliant of the family, and one which is very distinct in character. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are ovate acuminate, and bear two oblong-ligulato acute glaucous leaves, 

 and erect many-flowered racemes of teilliant vermilion-orange blossoms, of which 

 the sepals and petals are ovate-lanceolate, and the lip linear-acuminate and together 

 with the column of a bright yellow colour. It blossoms during the autumn 

 months, and lasts six weeks or more in good condition. This is best grown in the 

 Mexican house, as it delights in an abundance of light ; but it will also do well 

 with the Odontoglots in the cool house, and requires plenty of moisture at the 

 roots. — Mexico : Quatemala, on clovd-capped mountains amidst continual mists. 



Fia.—SeHum Oreh., t. 45; Sot. Reg., 1840, t. 35; Hot. Mag., t. 4107; Moore, 

 III. Oroh. PL, ISpidendruw, t. 1 ; Pasnton, 3fag. Bat., v. p. 49, with tab. ; Flore dan 

 Serri:.i, t. 1026 ; L'lU. Sort., t. 4 ; Otto 4' BelL, AUg. (JaHcn:., 1855, t. 9 ; Moak. Fint 

 Cent. Orch. PI., t. 19 ; Linde>iia,-^.t. 190 ; MeicJienbachia, i. t. 47. 



E. VITELLINUM MAJUS, Hort.— This beautiful variety is of the same colour 



:is the typical E. vitellinum, the only difference being in the size of the flowert;. 

 which are considerably larger, the sepals and petals 

 broader, and very thick and fleshy in texture. It 

 usually flowers during the summer months, and lasts 

 in bloom for an immense time. It sends up from the 

 top part of the bulbs its brilliantly-coloured blooms, 

 which issue from a sheath formed in autumn. The 

 plant requires the same treatment as the typo. 

 Mr. B. Warner, of Chelmsford, grows a large 

 quantity of this plant with his Odontoglossum,s, and 

 the effect of these when in flower and interspersed 

 with them is charming. It is, moreover, one of the 

 best Orchids for exhibition purposes on account of 

 its lasting such a long time in perfection. It is easily 



EPIDEKDEHM viTBLLiis-DM packed and bears travelling well; we have used a 

 MAJUS. specimen as many as five or six times at different 



shows. For home growth its distinct colour claims for it a place in every 



collection. — Mexico. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, i. t. 4 ; Floral Mag ., t. 2fil j Ji:nnings, OreJi .. t. ,?1 ; Piiydt. 

 Les Orch., t. 20; Warner's Sol. Ovch. PL, iii. t. 27; Vcitch's Man. Orch. PL, y\. 

 p. 125 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1892, xii. p. 159, 1 29. 



E. WALLISII, JRchh. f. — This wonderful species is comparatively new to our 

 collections. It is one of those which do not form pseudobulbs, but instead pro- 

 duces tall leafy stems, several feet in height, which are spotted with brownish- 

 purple, and clothed with distichous leaves. The pedxmcles arc both lateral and 

 terminal,-and bear elegant drooping racemes of flowers, which intermingled with 

 the foliage produce a most charming efiect. The flowers are numerous and show)', 

 about 1| inch across, and sweet-sceiited ; the ligulate-oblong sepals and petals 

 are rich golden yellow marked with small carmine-crimson spots; and the lip is 

 broad, cuneately flabellate, white, with radiating feathery minutely tuberclcd 

 lines of magenta-purple. It flowers during the months of October and November, 

 and continues from three to five months in perfection. — JSfeiv Grenada. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ii. t. 74: Lindcniu, viii. t. 341; Vcitch's Man. Orch. P! .. 

 vi. p. 126. 



