(abgopes 
EPIDENDRUM CILIARE. FRINGED 
: EpripENDRUM. 
estes eae ab ab ease ae a ah sea a ae 
: Clafs and Order. 
GYNANDRIA DtanpRiAs 
Generic Charaier. 
Cor. 6-petala. Ne@arium .turbinatum, obliquim  reflexum. 
Cap/. infera 1-locularis, g-valvis, feneftrata. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
-EPIDENDRUM ciliare foliis oblongis aveniis, ne€tarii labic 
tripartito ciliato : intermedia lineari, cauli 
bifolio. Linn. Syft. Vegetab: ed. 14. Murr. 
p- 818. Facq. Amer. pitt. p. 110. t. 209. 
Of this parafitical tribe the number of fpecies defcribed in 
_ the third edition of the Sp. P/. Linn. 1764, amounts to thirty; 
in Gmetin’s thirteenth edition of the Sy. Nat. Linn. 1791, 
no lefs than feventy-five are enumerated, which is a vaft ac- 
 ceffion in fo fhort a period; moft of thefe are natives of hot 
climates, and on that account require a ftove heat in this — 
country ; from their nature alfo they require a fituation not — 
to be exa€tly imitated, they are therefore to be regarded as_ 
plants very difficult of culture, and we are not to be furprifed 
that three fpecies only are enumerated in the Hort. Kew— 
but, fince the publication of that work, many othershave been 
added to the royal colle€tion, and this among the reft, er 
The rare and fingular fpecies here reprefented, a native of 
_-the warmer parts of America, and the Weft-Indies, flowered 
with Mr. Wuitxtey, Nurferyman, Old-Brompton, in Feb. 
1799, and at irregular periods before that time; he informs 
me that it is not conftant as to the time of its blowing, and 
that though the plant flowers with him, it never aflumes a fine _ 
healthy green appearance, he propagates it by dividing its 
limbs or branches, which often put forth fmall roots; | the 
plant grows in a pot, in a mixture of loam and peat or bog- 
eta and is kept conftantly plunged im the tan-pit of the 
, 
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