In the fame fuperb colle&ion, we had the pleafure of feeing in 

 flower, at the fame time, the En den dru nfragrans of Swart z, 

 fo called from the very fine odour it diffufes far around, a plant 

 formerly figured in the Botanical Magazine, and there called by 

 miftake Epidendrum cochleatum. Who can avoid occafional 

 error, efpecially where the fpecies are fo numerous ? Frofeffor 

 Martyn, in his edition of Miller's Dictionary, enumerates 

 one hundred and twenty-four kinds, of which but thirty were 

 known to Linn it us, and only four appear in the Kew Cata- 

 logue. 



Being a native of the Weft Indies, and naturally a parafitical 

 plant, its culture is difficult, and it is of neceffity a conftant 

 inhabitant of the bark ftove in our climate. 



Mr. Woodford's head gardener, Mr. Watson, who is a 

 very fuccefsful cultivator and pays great attention to the na- 

 tural propenfities of plants, recommends in the management 

 of Epidendrum to protect the roots by knobs of old tan, 

 and obferves that, in general, they love (hade and a hot damp 

 air, but do not bear much water to the roots. 



