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John Fairburn; Lycaste Barringtoniz, Cecelia Baueriana, and Epidendrum 
fuscatum, by Lord Gardner; and Epidendrum ciliare, by Edward Elcock. 
The last-named gentleman added four additional genera during 1791, these 
also being West Indian, as follows :—Oncidium carthaginense, Pleuro- 
thallis ruscifolia, Stelis ophioglossoides, and Isochilus linearis. The 
European Orchis globosa was cultivated by W. Pitcairn, M.D., before 1792. 
Nine additional West Indian species appeared in 1793, including four addi- 
tional genera. Ponera prolifera was sent by Edward Elcock; Broughtonia 
sanguinea by Walter Ewer; and the remainder by Rear-Admiral William 
Bligh, as follows:—Brassavola cucullata, Octomeria graminifolia, Epi- 
dendrum elongatum (secundum), E. umbellatum, E. nutans, Oncidium 
altissimum and O. triquetrum. Cymbidium sinense was also introduced 
about the year 1793, by George Seaton. In 1795 Elleanthus capitatus 
was introduced from the West Indies by Sir Joseph Banks; in 1796 
Spiranthes cernua was sent from North America by William Hamilton, 
while Habenaria ciliaris, from the same country, is said to have been 
cultivated by R. A. Salisbury before 1796. Lastly, Pterygodium volucris 
was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope in 1797, by Sir Joseph Banks. 
We may now note a few of the species figured before the close of the 
eighteenth century, noting the conditions under which they were grown. 
Miller, in 1768, wrote of the genus Epidendrum, “ There are nearly thirty 
species of this genus, which grow naturally upon trees in America and both 
Indies, 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 plants be brought to thrive by culture, many of them produce very 
fine flowers of very uncommon form. I had three species of them sent me 
from America; 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 
afterwards perished.’ Some slight progress was made before the close of 
the century. 
Calopogon pulchellus, which dates from 1771, was again accidentally 
introduced in 1788, and is interesting as the first Orchid figured in the 
Botanical Magazine. The third volume bears date 1790, and at t. 116 
this plant is figured under the name of Limodorum tuberosum. Its 
history is recorded by Curtis, as follows :—‘‘ For this rare plant I am 
indebted to the very laudable exertions of a late gardener of mine, James 
Smith, who, in the spring of 1788, examining attentively the bog-earth 
which had been brought over with some plants of the Dionza muscipula, 
found several small tooth-like knobby roots, which, being placed in pots 
of the same earth, and plunged into a tan-pit having a gentle heat, 
produced plants the ensuing summer, two of which flowered, and from 
the strongest of these our figure was taken.” 
The next plant figured in the Botanical Magazine was Epidendrum 
