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 Epidendrum Cochleatum. Purple- 

 Flowered Epidendrum. 



Oafs and Order, 

 Gynandria Diandria. 



Generic Charatler. 

 Velarium turbinatum, obliquum, reflexum. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



•EPIDENDRUM cochleatum; foliis oblongis geminis glabris 

 ftriatis bulbo innatis, fcapo multifloro, nec- 

 tario cordato. Spec. PL 1351. Hort. Kew. 

 3. 303. Swartz. Obf. 329. Jacq. Ic. rar.§, 

 t. 605. Catcjb. Car. 2. t. 88. And. Bot. Rep. 

 PL 13. Mart. Mill. DitJ. art. 24. 



HELLEBORINE cochleato flore. Plum.Spec. 9. Ic. 185./. 2. 



Of this very numerous genus, the Epidendrum cochleatum 

 was the firfl: that was feen to flower in this country. It is now 

 n °t very uncommon, confidering the difficulty attending the 

 culture of plants naturally parafitical, a difficulty which appeared 

 Jo great to Miller himfelf, that he thought it unneceflary to 

 enumerate the fpecies in his Dictionary, obferving, that " they 

 _ were not by any art then known to be cultivated in the 



ground." Since his time many fpecies have been brought 

 t0 flower in great perfection, five have been now figured in the 

 botanical Magazine, and we have drawings of fome others. 



The Epidendrum is of the fame natural order as Orchis 

 and Ophrys, and the flowers of the different fpecies have a 

 "milar fportive variety of form. Many of them are very 

 dutiful, and all are curious for fome lingularity or other. 



Our drawing was made from a fpecimen which flowered 

 , at Edward Woodford's, Efq. in December laft, whofe 

 nead gardener, Mr. Watson, appears to us to be more than 

 0lf imari!y fuccefsful in the management of thefe plants, which 



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