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No. 713. 
EPIDENDRUM NOCTURN M. 
Class. á ; 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. — 
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This grows with an Et. . 
from one to two feet in height : the flowers 
are produced at the top; they are usually 
two or three in number, coming out at long 
intervals after each other; they open in the 
evening and close towards morning. 
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5 ok isa e of in van in 
“Islands. ais has given a good 
of it. It has lately been introduced into 
this country, and flowered with us in the 
autumn. It is requisite to preserve it con- 
stantly in the stove, and we have found it 
succeed pretty well in pots, planted in vege- 
table earth with pieces of wood introduced 
for the roots to cling to, which in some 
measure imitates the native situations in 
which it is found growing upon old and 
decaying trees. 
