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luridum. The flowers are yellow tinged with brown, and very fragrant. The 
leaves are fine, and grow very upright, giving the plant a very noble appearance. 
We grow our plants in a damp stove in pots filled with turfy peat and potsherds. E. 
bicornutum. This is another delightfully fragrant species, with white flowers. The 
flower stem grows from nine to twelve inches long, and bears three or four flowers. 
Our plants grow readily, treated as the last. E.fragrans. — This plant, although 
there is no particular beauty in the flowers, is delightful for its fragrance. The 
flower stem proceeds from the top of the pseudo-bulb, rises about six inches high, 
and produces from twelve to fourteen flowers of a pale yellowish green, and the 
labellum striped with red. It must be kept in the stove, and potted either in 
turfy peat or vegetable earth. E. patens produces a drooping flower stem, containing 
from four to six pale yellow flowers. It thrives in turfy peat, and should be kept 
constantly in a damp stove. E. cuspidatum and ciliare greatly resemble each other. 
The petals and sepals of each are yellowish green, in the former changing to a pale 
yellow, in the latter remaining pale green, and the labellum is white and fringed. 
We pot them in turfy peat, and keep them in a damp stove. E. noctumum yields 
a powerful odour in the night, but is not remarkable for beauty. Sepals and petals 
are greenish yellow, and the labellum white. Our plants are grown in pots of moss 
well drained with potsherds, and kept constantly in the stove. E. nutans bears five 
or six yellow flowers, on a flower stem about six inches high. We grow it in turfy 
peat. E. odoratissimum. — Though the flowers of this plant are far from being 
handsome, yet its astonishing fragrance renders it exceedingly valuable in any 
collection. It is easily cultivated in a mixture of turfy peat and wood well drained, 
and the pots placed in a damp stove. E. variegatum.— This plant is a native of 
Rio, whence it was introduced by Mr. Harrison. The sepals and petals are 
yellowish green, spotted with dark brown spots, and the labellum pale yellow. Our 
plants thrive in well drained pots of turfy peat, and placed in a hot damp part of 
the stove. E. Harrisonicz. — The flowers of this plant are numerous, proceeding 
from the extremity of a drooping flower stem. The sepals and petals are a delicate 
green, and the labellum white. Ours grow freely in turfy peat and rotten wood 
well drained, and placed in a hot part of the stove. E. pallidijiorum. — The flowers 
are small, and grow in a bunch or corymb. The sepals and petals are pale yellow. 
The treatment is the same as the last. 
Eria stellata. — The flower stem of this species grows from eighteen to 
twenty-four inches high, and produces many greenish yellow star-like flowers, 
disposed from the bottom to the top. It grows freely with us in pots, turfy peat, 
well drained, and kept in a damp stove. 
Gongora Atropurpurea. — This is a native of Demerara, whence it was in- 
troduced by Charles Parker, Esq. The flowers are produced in long pendent 
racemes, several of which proceed from one plant at the same time. The flowers 
are dark purple, and of a very peculiar construction. The plant grows well with 
us potted in turfy peat, and placed in a hot damp stove. 
Grobya Amhersti. — This curious species is a native of Brazil, whence it has 
been very lately introduced. The flower stem springs from the roots, and produces 
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