No. 26. 
EPIDENDRUM UMBELLATUM. 
Class. Order. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
We received this elegant plant from the 
Island of St. Vincent. It is like most of 
the genus, a kind of parasitical plant, grow- 
ing upon trees in the thick woods of the 
West Indies: introduced into the Kew 
garden in 1793. By some the flowers are 
said to have a disagreeable scent. We found 
ours, however, in the day-time, perfectly 
inodorous; while at night they exbaled a 
very pleasing am not unlike that of 
the violet. 
It should be plut in sni composed of 
rotten wood, moss, and: a little sand; in 
order to imitate, as nearly as possible, its 
natural situation: by attending to this, and 
keeping it in a good heat in the stove, we 
have found it thrive very well, producing its 
flowers in February. They possess a pro- 
perty, which seems to be common to the 
Epidendrums, of lasting a long time in 
perfection. 
