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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



but it fortunately attacks very few plants : a very soft brush, 

 in a brisk wind, is the only remedy known to me. 



Dendrobium Barringtoni^. Smith Ic. Hict. n. 25. 

 cum Ic. 



Introduced by the Hon. Mrs. Bakrington from the 

 Island of Jamaica in 1790, and, as I am told, one of the most 

 difficult species to cultivate, requiring the constant damp 

 heat of a bark-pit, but little or no water. 



Cymbidium Fragrans. MSS. Epidendrum Sinense. 

 Sims in Bot. Mag. n. 888. cum Ic. — Kenn. in Bot. Rep. 

 n. 206. cum Ic. 



A most fragrant plant, one spike of flowers filling the 

 whole stove with perfume, like that of the Persian Iris. I 

 doubt its being indigenous in China ; for it is tender ; and I 

 never saw it healthy, except when plunged in the bark-bed, 

 where it flowers freely, sending up numerous off-sets. 



Cymbidium Aloifolium. Suartz. in Nov. Act. Jjps.v. 6. 

 p. 73. Epidendrum alooides. Curt, in Bot. Mag. n. 387- cum 

 Ic. Epidendrum aloifolium. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 1356. 



Introduced by John Devaynes, Esq. in 1792, from the 

 coast of Malabar, where it is parasitic on the trunks of 

 Strychnos Nux Vomica ; in our stoves will thrive on a shelf, 

 as well as in the bark-bed. 



Otandra Cernua. MSS. Limodorum recurvum. Roxb. 

 PL Corom. v. 1. p. 33 t.S9. 



This species flowered, in 1794, in the collection of John 

 Slater, Esq. at Laytonstone, who introduced it the same 

 year from the Rajamundry Circar, where it grows wild in 

 moist vallies ; it may be cultivated in our stoves, with little 

 trouble. 



