LIST OF ORCHIDE/E. 
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The colour of the flowers is pale purple, resembling in shape 
and size the common periwinkle, but possessing more substance. 
It was brought from Nepal in 1826. 
We have heard of two or three other species — caudata, 
angulata, and capensis; but not having grown them, we refrain 
from describing on other authority. 
In conclusion, we may mention the genus is named in honour 
of C. P. Thunberg, F.R.S., a celebrated botanist and traveller, 
author of Flor. Japonica, &c., and in the Linnean system is 
included in the class Didynamia, order Angiospermia ; and in 
the Natural or Jussieuean arrangement its place is in Acan- 
thaceae.— Editor. 
LIST OF ORCHIDEB. 
( Continued from page 223.) 
118. Epidendrum patens. (Derived from spreading.) A plant 
with bulbous stems, from two to three feet long. Leaves alter¬ 
nately up the stem ; flowering in a drooping raceme, produced 
from the summit of the stem, eight inches long; flowers verticil- 
late, and of a pale-greenish white. This species is worthy a 
place in every collection, and should be grown in a pot in a 
mixture of turfy peat and sphagnum, with a good drainage, and 
liberally supplied with water while it is making its growth, with 
a temperature of 65° to 70°. — Native of West Indies. 
119. Epidendrum oncidioides. (In regard of its flowers bear¬ 
ing the character of that genus.) A beautiful showy species, 
with pseudo bulbs from three to four inches long; the leaves are 
long and narrow, flower-stem branching from two to three feet 
long ; flowers yellow, tinged with brown. This species also re¬ 
quires pot culture, but not so liberally supplied with water as in 
some cases. The temperature for it should be 65°. — -Native oj 
South America . 
120. Epidendrum fragrans. This species I only recommend 
on account of the delightful fragrance it produces when in 
bloom, but of no peculiar beauty ; plant pseudo-bulbous, and 
producing its flowers from a short stem on the summit of the 
bulbs ; sepals and petals green ; column rather darker, with its 
labellum striped with red. This requires the same treatment as 
