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long, bearing many flowers, the sepals and petals of which are more or less 
yellow, covered with purple blotches, and the lip rose-coloured. In some 
varieties these blotches are intensely bright and cheerful, which, of course, 
assists in making the good variety. It should now be in bloom, and large, 
well-grown plants are always admired, and formerly were much used as 
specimen plants for exhibition. It is best grown in pots, well drained, and 
in the usual compost of peat and moss in equal parts, and prefers rather 
a warm temperature, such as the Cattleya house. They may also be well 
grown in an ordinary stove. 
Epidendrum vitellinum is a beautiful species, well known to all 
Orchidists, and is largely imported and cultivated. It usually admits of 
easy growth if placed with the Odontoglossums in the coolest department, 
with plenty of water during summer and but little during winter. The 
flower spikes are now pushing up apace, and will open next month and 
brighten up this department when the glut of Odontoglossum crispum, 
Masdevallias, &c., is past. Re-potting is not often necessary, as it resents 
root disturbance, though it should be kept nicely top-dressed, and always 
secured firmly if at all unstable. It then gives but little trouble, and will 
eventually produce fine, fat pseudobulbs, pleasing to look upon. 
Epidendrum atropurpureum (macrochilum) is another very striking 
species when well grown and flowered. The spikes are about twelve to 
eighteen inches long, erect, carrying from six to twelve rather large, 
substantial flowers, the sepals and petals being brown and the lip purple or 
white with a large, purple blotch round the base—forming altogether a very 
attractive flower. It is a species which requires a good deal of heat during 
the summer months to grow it well, and is best grown in a basket 
suspended near the glass in the warmest department. 
Epidendrum nemorale is another belonging to the same section as the 
last-named, and is a neat and pretty species, requiring a good amount of 
_ warmth and moisture when growing, but during the winter a good, dry rest 
in the Cattleya house, such as is given to Catasetums, Mormodes, Lzelias, 
Dendrobiums, &c. Epidendrums Wallisii, xanthinum, Cooperianum, 
radicans, evectum, tovarense, syringothyrsus, and X O’Brienianum are 
other very desirable kinds, belonging to the slender, reed-like growing 
section, for all of which Intermediate treatment is admirably suited. They 
revel in copious supplies of water during summer, and during winter they 
must never be dried too much, or they may suffer, their manner of growth 
not being adapted to long droughts. 
Epidendrum (Nanodes) Meduse is an extremely curious and striking 
species, and has short, leafy stems, though, instead of growing erect as 
others do, the weight of its thick, fleshy leaves soon causes them to take a 
pendulous direction. The flowers, which are produced singly or in pairs 
