XX THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
plates (119 and 120) are devoted. This plant was intro- 
duced by Sir Joseph Banks, from the Cape of Good Hope 
in 1773, and was first figured and described in the first 
edition of Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis. Passing to the fifth 
volume (1791), we note Zinnia multiflora, Tagetes patula, 
and Epidendrum fragrans (pl. 152) incorrectly named 
E. cochleatum. The last, being an epiphyte, was regarded 
as a great curiosity; and if not actually the first plant 
cultivated in England, it was one of the first two species; 
K. fragrans being the other. Aiton records both as having 
been introduced in 1786; the former by Mr. Alexander 
Anderson and the latter by Hinton Hast, Esq. Curtis 
states that instances of epiphytes flowering in England were 
very rare; indeed, so accomplished a gardener as Philip 
Miller considered it futile to attempt to grow these 
epiphytal Orchids, as appears from the following paragraph 
relating to Epidendrum, extracted from the eighth edition 
of his Dictionary, 1768 :—“ There are near thirty species of 
this genus, which grow naturally on trees in Africa and 
both Indies [as first constituted by Linnwus, Epidendrum 
comprised all the epiphytal Orchids then known], but as 
the plants cannot by any art yet known be cultivated in 
the ground, it would be to little purpose the enumerating 
of them here, though, could the plauts be brought to thrive 
by culture, many of them produce very fine flowers of 
uncommon forms. I had three species of them sent me 
from America, which were stripped from the trees on 
which they grew. These I planted with care in pots, 
which were placed in a stove, where they came so far as to 
show their flowers, but the plants soon after perished.” 
ommodore Gardner presented roots of Epidendrum 
fragrans to the Apothecaries Company in 1789, and these 
were successfully treated by Mr. Fairbairn in their garden 
at Chelsea, producing flowers in February, 1790. “ Mr. 
Fairbairn planted the roots in pots of earth composed of 
rotten wood and decayed leaves, plunging them into the 
tan bed of a pit of considerable size.” The true cochleatum 
is figured in pl. 572, where Sims corrected the error; and 
K. fragrans was again figured (pl. 1669) in 1814. Brilliant 
among shrubs hardy only in the milder parts of these 
islands is Sophora tetraptera (pl. 167), one of the very few 
Leguminosee belonging to the native flora of New Zealand, 
introduced thence by Sir Joseph Banks in 1772. It is the 
subject of the first plate of J. Miller’s Icones Plantarum, in 
folio, alluded to above, Miller states that it ripened seeds 
in the open ground at Chelsea in 1779, as well as in 
