No. 887. 
EPIDENDRUM ANCEPS. 
Class, Order, 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
We received this plant from St. Vincent 
in 1822; it has flowered, and produced seeds 
with us repeatedly, but we have seldom 
been able to detect the blossoms in an open 
state. In eyery ar it seems to 
agree with E. anceps of Jacquin, Amer. 138, 
who describes it as being parasitical on 
trees, and growing to half a foot, or a little 
more, in height, m a compressed stalk 
a lateral spadix : this arises from his spe- 
cimen being a second spadix, produced out 
of the remains of a former one, a circum- 
stance not at all uncommon in many of the 
Epidendrums. 
It may be cultivated like the other 
species in a vegetable earth, and may 
occasionally be separated for increase, con- 
stantly preserving it in the stove. 
