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producing inconspicuous flowers. The bulbs of E. guineensis are broadly pear- 

 sliaped, from 1 to 1^ inch in height, and from their crown proceed two leaves which 

 are elliptic-lanceolate, plicate, and stalked ; the flower scape is erect, 3 feet high, 

 produced from the base of the pseudobulb, and terminates in a raceme of from 

 seven to twelve flowers ; the indi- 

 vidual flowers are about 2| inches 

 in diameter, the sepals and petals 

 dull purplish-green, the lip large, 

 three-lobed, the middle lobo very 

 blunt, undulated, white with crim- 

 son stripes at the base, the lateral 

 lobes rolled and the spur subulate. 

 It flowers in September and Octo- 

 ber. — West Tropical Africa. 



Fig. — Loddiges, Bot. Cab., t. 81 8 ; 

 Bat. Mag., t. 2467 j Bot. Beg., t. 686. 



E. GUINEENSIS PURPURATA, 



Rchb. f. — ^A very rare and beauti- 

 ful variety of E. guineensis, having 

 flowers much richer in colour than 

 in the ordinary forms ; sepals and 

 petals deep rosy-purple, lip rich 

 bright magenta, traversed by deep 

 crimson veins; the pseudobulbs 

 are roundish ovate, and the some- 

 what plicate leaves are oblong- 

 acuminate, 6 inches long, narrowed 

 below into a petiole; the scapes, 

 which rise from the base of the 

 bulbs, are a foot or more in height, 

 and bear racemes of seven to ten 

 pedicellate spurred flowers; the 

 sepals and petals are linear-acumi- 

 nate, deep rosy-purple, all directed 

 upwards, and the broad roundish- 

 ovate pointed front lobe of the lip is of a bright magenta, traversed by crimson 

 flabellate veins, which become deep rosy-purple as they converge towards the 

 base, the extreme base being white, and the short blunt side lobes blush; the 

 slender spur is deep purple, and the column rosy-purple. It is a charmingly 

 beautiful, richly coloured plant. — West Trovical Africa. 

 Fig. — Orclhid Album, ii. t. 89. 



E. MACULATA, Bchh. f. — An interesting species from the Congo. The 

 pseudobulbs are ovate compressed, one-leaved; leaves elliptic-ovate, leathery 

 green, barred transversely with silvery maculations ; the scape is pro- 

 duced from the base of the pseudobulbs, carrying at the top a many-flowered 

 raceme ; the dorsal sepal is hood-shaped, the lateral ones acuminate, reddish- 

 brown ; petals lanceolate acute, white ; lip broadly cordate, white with two 

 triangular scarlet marks at the base. — Congo. 



Tig.— Bot. Beg., t. 618 ; GaHenflora, 188S, t. 1285. 

 Bx'S.-^Artgraeeum maculatum. 



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EULOPHIA GUINBEKSIS PUKPUKATA. 



