in several species. The cigar-plan 

 is commonly cultivated, and is int 

 resemble a cigar in shape. 



The great part of this bench is 

 Myrtaceae, which is continued a 



of the 



ral bench. The 



Hid the Orie 



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also obtained an oil used in perfumery. The leaves are usee 

 sometimes for sachet powders. The Cattleya guava, Psidiun, 

 Cattlcianum, from Brazil, may be seen in small plants. Severa 

 species of the genus Eucalyptus and of Callistcmon are in tht 



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This house is mainly devoted to orchids, the side benches and 

 the rafters above being devoted to this family, while the central 



The mistake is frequently made of considering all plants or- 

 chids which come under the general popular classifiction of " air 

 plants." This is a great mistake, for many plants which are just 

 as much epiphytic as are the orchids, have nothing whatever 

 to do with that family. Many of the aroid family and nearly all 

 of the pineapple family are epiphytes, but they are by no means 

 orchids. Odd or strange-looking flowers are often classed among 

 the orchids also, when they may be in no manner related to 

 them. It is difficult to describe in a few words what constitutes 

 an orchid, but to the botanist it is known at once by the peculiar 

 structure of the flower, this peculiarity consisting in the uniting 

 of the stamens and pistils into one organ, called the column. 



The family is a widely distributed one, occurring in all tropi- 

 cal regions, but finding its greatest development in the Old World 

 in India and the Malayan region, while in the New World it finds 

 its greatest numbers in Brazil arid other parts of northern South 



while in cold countries orchids are entirely absent. Most of the 

 tropical forms are epiphytic, that is, they grow upon trees and 



