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EPIDENDRUM. 
THIS is a very extensive genus, comprising about 400 
species, natives of South America and the West Indies, and 
varying much in habit and size. Among them are many 
which are not deserving a place in the amateur’s collection. 
All the species are epiphytes. Dr. Lindley says that the 
essential character of the genus consists in the lip being 
more or less united by a fleshy base to the edge of a 
column, which is hornless, and considerably elongated, 
but not petaloid and winged; in the pollen-masses being 
four, equal and compressed; and in the presence of a 
passage more or less deep at the base of the lip. The 
name Epidendrum was at one time applied to nearly all 
the Orchids which were known to grow on trees; but 
it has since been limited to the plants possessing the above 
characters. 
As this genus includes several plants hitherto known 
under other names, and as a considerable number of 
handsome-flowered kinds have recently been introduced, 
the list of useful garden Epidendrums is a fairly long 
one. Even those kinds which are wanting in ordinary 
attractions, have characters which are of sufficient interest 
to recommend them to some amateurs. Some of them 
are deliciously fragrant, as, for instance, E. fragrans, 
