Species Description 
E. ALATUM, Varieties EPIDENDRUMS 
Spikes erect, branching, flowers about 2 inches across. 
Sepals and petals shaded with brown purple, lip yellow- 
ish, to white, shaded with rose purple. Fragrant. Blooms 
in the Spring. 
E. ATRO-PURPUREUM 
Flowers large, 2 to 3 inches across, 5 to 15 on a raceme. 
Sepals and petals green and brown. Lip white. Fragrant. 
Blooms Spring. 
E. CILIARE 
Scapes erect 2 to 7 flowered. Flowers spreading 3 to 4 
inches across. Sepals and petals greenish white. Lip white 
deeply fringed. Winter bloomer. 
E. COCHLEATUM 
Spikes erect, 3 to 9 flowered. Flowers 2 to 3 inches across. 
Sepals and petals narrow, inclined backward, yellowish 
green. Lip deep purplish black. In bloom almost con- 
tinually. 
E. FRAGRANS 
Flowers in short 3 to 7 flowered spikes, about 2 inches 
across. Sepals and petals creamy white, lip white streaked 
with red-purple. Fragrant. Blooms in Summer. 
E. LIONETIANUM 
Flowers large 2 to 3 inches across. On stout erect racemes, 
of 5 to 15 flowers. Sepals and petals greenish brown. Lip 
pink. Fragrant. Summer bloomer. 
E. ONCIDIOIDES é 
Scapes erect 2 to 3 feet, branching flowers yellowish 
brown, about | inch across, 10 to 50 flowers per scape. 
Blooms in Summer. 
E. SKINNERI 
Flower spikes 12 to 15 inches long, terminal bearing 10 to 
20 flowers about an inch across. Deep rose in color. Blooms 
in Winter. 
L. ANCEPS LAELIAS 
Two to 6 flowers per spike, 3 to 4 inches across. Very 
variable as to color. Typical in sepals and petals deep 
rose, lip crimson-purple. Winter bloomer. 
L. CRISPILABIA 
Sepals and petals lilac-mauve, lip deep amethyst and 
white. Dwarf habit. Blooms in Spring. 
L. GRANDIFLORA 
Flowers large to 6 inches, across. Sepals and petals rosy, 
lip whitish in center, marked and spotted mauve purple. 
Blooms in May and June. 
L. FLAVA 
Dwarf habit, flowers canary yellow, 8 to 10 flowers per 
spike. Blooms Fa!l and Winter. 
L. LOBATA (Boothiana) 
Flowers violet-purple, rich crimson veins in the lip. 
Flowers about 5 inches across. Blooms April and May. 
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