ESMERALDA. 



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numerous handsome flowers ; the sepals and petals are spreading oblong obtuse, 

 dull orange-yellow with reddish-purple margins-, the lip is about the same 

 length, three-lobed, the 

 disk Striated and lamel- 

 late, with a dull crest, 

 the broad lateral lobes 

 involute, and the front 

 lobe much smaller, orbi- 

 cular, and obsourely 

 omarginate, white with 

 dark purple spots, the 

 other parts dull orange- 

 red dotted with dark 

 purple: The individual 

 flowers are nearly 2 

 inches across. — Netv 

 Grenada : Antioqitia, 

 on palm stems fully 

 e.eposed to the sun, 

 elevation 4,000 to 6,000 

 feet. 



Fig. — ^ot. Man., 

 t. 4437 ; Pescatorea, t. 20 ; 

 Antiales ie Gmid, 1849, 

 t. 253; Orchid AVbnm, 



viii. t. 377. EBIOPSIS KTJTIDOBULBON. 



E. SCHOMBURGKII.— See Emopsis biloba. 



Esmeralda, ndii.f. 



(Tribe Vandeae, sultribe Sarcanthideae.) 

 A genus of epiphytal plants, with the habit of Vanda, having 

 distichous coriaceous leaves, and stout aerial roots, indeed they have 

 been grovs^n for years as Vandas, but the flowers differ in not having a 

 saccate formation to the lip, in being destitute of a spur, and in its being 

 jointed to the column, which induced Eeichenbach to separate them, but 

 Bentham arranged them under the genus Arachnanthe of Blwme. We, 

 however, prefer the views of the great specialist of the family, and thus 

 retain Hsmeralda. 



Culture. — The treatment and temperature for these plants should be 

 the same as recommended for Vandas, saving for one species, and that 

 is E. Clarkei, which grows naturally in Sikkim at some 5,000 feet 

 elevation, where the temperature seldom reaches to 80° during the 

 hottest part of the year, and in the dull season the thermometer would 



