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the former being th.e broadest, in front pale yellow, 

 streaked and mottled with rich brown ; lip deeply 

 cut; creamy-white, tinged with rosy-pink. Spring 

 months. Guatemala, 7,000 to 8,000 feet elevation. 



C. Cooperiamtm. — This is a very 

 distinct and rare species. Stems 

 erect, one to two feet or more 

 liigh, clothed with stift lanceolate 

 leaves, arranged in a distichous 

 manner; raceme many-flowered, 

 flowers thick 

 and fleshy ; 

 sepals and pe- 

 tals yellow- 

 ish-brown; 

 lip large and 

 broad ; deep 

 bright rose. 

 Spring and 

 early sum- 

 mer. Brazil. 



E. dichro- 

 mum. — The 

 pseudo- bulbs 

 smooth, and 

 slightly ta- 

 pering at 

 both ends, 

 bearing on 

 the summit 

 two to three 

 ligulate co- 

 riaceous leaves, which are blunt- 

 jjointed, and nine to twelve inches 

 long; scape erect, from one to 

 two feet or more high, sometimes 

 branched, with numerous flowers 

 nearly two inches in diameter ; se- 

 pals and petals pure white, the lat- 

 ter much the broader, whilst the 

 three-lobed lip is deep rose, stained 

 with yellow at the base, and bor- 

 dered with white on the margin. 



The variety amahile differs in 

 colour only; in this form the 

 sepals and petals are bright rose, 

 and the li]D intense crimson, with 

 a paler margin. Summer and 

 autumn. Brazil, about Bahia. 



E. eburneum. — A beautiful species, with erect 

 slender stems and alternate, sheathing, coriaceous, 

 dark green leaves ; racemes terminal, bearing three 

 to six flowers, which measure about four inches in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals pale yellow ; lip large, 

 cordate in front, ivory-white. Panama. 



ellipticKm. — Stems tender, erect, \\'ith short 



coriaceous sheathing leaves, arranged in a two- 

 ranked manner. It varies considerably in height, for 

 we are told that "it is frequently found growing 

 upon rocks, quite exposed ; in such situations it is a 

 dwarf plant, but when it grows 

 in moist thickets it attains to up- 



• '.r l- r.f 

 Ahhough 

 the next , 

 elhptii .il, 



Epidendruji bicoekutjji 



four feet in height, 

 very nearly allied to 

 pecies it differs in its 

 )lunt, succulent leaves ; 



its flowers 

 are paler; 

 and especi- 

 ally in the 

 form of the 

 tubercle of 

 the lip, which 

 is deeply 

 furrowed 

 or plaited, 

 shouldering 

 olf to the 

 lateral lobes, 

 and is not 

 furnished 

 there with a 

 free tubercle, 

 as in E. elon- 

 gatum.''^ The 

 flowers are 

 light rose, 

 and the ra- 

 terminal and erect. 

 Organ INIountains, Brazil. 



E. elongatum. — The habit is 

 very similar to the preceding. 

 The leaves are longer and thin- 

 ner, more ovate and acute, the 

 raceme is more dense, and the 

 peduncles longer, and the flowers 

 are deep bright rose. It is widely 

 distributed throughout the islands 

 of Martinique, Dominica, Trini- 

 dad, and Antigua. It is also 

 found in Caracas. 



E. crubescens. — This is a ramb- 

 ling plant, with long woody 

 stems, and forming its fusiform 

 pseudo - bulbs some six inches 

 apart. It roots freely on the under side, and in 

 this waj'- it runs over the Oak-trees, and produces 

 its large panicles of rosy mauve-coloured flowers in 

 great profusion. Mexico, about Aaxaca, at from 

 0,000 to 8,500 feet elevation. 



E. evectum. — A species with the habit of E. elon- 

 gatum ; its stems are branching, and it bears in 



