No. 660. 
GOMESA RECURVA. 
Class. Order, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
An elegant plant, a native of Brazil: it 
flowers here in the month of April, being 
about nine inches high, and the pendulous 
flower-stem six inches. It probably grows, 
like the Epidendrum family in general, on 
trees, and may be kept very well in this 
country in a pot, in which part of a mode- 
rately thick branch of a tree is introduced, 
and the interstices filled up with soil com- 
posed of moss, saw-dust, and sand: it 
rarely admits of being increased by separat- 
ing the roots, and must be constantly pre- 
served in the stove. 
