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*3— Coccineuui ; a very beautiful form, with brilliant deep scarlet 

 flowers; very rich in coloring. 



4 — Bridgesii; dull violet, petals of a dark violet or purple; a 

 prolific bloomer with richly colored flowers. 



*5 — Cruentum; dark-purplish red flowers. 



6 — Magnificum; large white flowers, with rose margined seg- 

 ments, tips of petals bright rose. 



*7 — Albolateritium ; petals silky white, margined with brick red. 

 8— Amabile; white and faintly tinged with purple or crimson; 

 an elegant form. 



9 — Aurantiacum; reddish-orange, large aud brilliant. 



*10 — Purpureum : deep purple. 



*11— Roseum; bright rose; very handsome, with streaks of deep 

 red on the sepals. 



12 — Rubrotinctum ; white and purplish-red flowers. 



13 — Ruckerianum ; purplish-red, tinged with violet, with a rich 

 violet center. 

 *14 — Splendens; a fine form, with deep rose flowers. 



15— Spectabile ; white flowers, margined with purple. 



16 — Salmoneum; salmon-red flowers, tinged with purple. 



17 — Tricolor; flowers of a deep reddish-purple and white. 



18 — Violaceum ; silvery-white flowers, margined with light purple. 

 A large flowered form (grandiflorum) and a form with pure white 

 flowers with a deep purple edge (superbum) are highly valued. 



19 — Guedeneyi ; a remarkable form, perhaps a good species ' with 

 pure white flowers three'to four inches in diameter and exhaling a 

 most delightful odor.' 



20 — Elegans; a superb red and purple colored flower, bright 

 orange-red with a center of rich purple. 



Some of the above forms may perhaps be worthy of specific 

 rank, but as long as their origin and natural characteristics remain 

 unknown they are best treated as varieties. These plants are all 

 natives of the Organ mountains in Brazil, where they are found 

 usually at an altitude under 4000 feet elevation, growing on trees in 

 the vast forests of that region, not as parasites (as stated by some 

 authors) but as Epiphytes — that is, deriving their nourishment from 

 the moisture laden atmosphere and not from the host trees, where 

 they are merely lodgers, not boarders. 



Epiphyllum Russellianum Hooker.— This differs from the 

 preceding species in more slender branches and larger flowers of a 

 generally lighter color. The segments of the flowers are straight 

 and narrow, not reflexed as in E. truncatum. In its native forests it 

 seems to reach a higher elevation, having been found up in an alti- 



