122 
EPIDENDRUM SCHOMBURGKIL 
Messrs. Loddiges cultivate it like E. ellipticum and the other caulescent species, 
by planting it in a pot filled with rough heath-mould and potsherds. It seems to 
flourish in a warm moist house, and succeeds well 
where it can be suspended over a cistern, or a large 
body of water, from which exhalations are constantly 
going forward. In the winter, it should liave a some- 
what drier spot, and will require scarcely any water, 
if kept in a cool house. In potting it and all similar 
plants, the base of the stem, from which the roots are 
emitted, should be placed rather high in the pot, and 
above the general level of the soil. A small pot may 
be inverted in the one in which it is put, before the 
soil is introduced. 
To propagate it, it is only necessary to take away 
carefully one of the stems, and pot it separately. Or, 
sometimes the older stems will throw out lateral 
branches, which form roots at their base ; and when 
the tendency to do this is perceived, a little moss 
should be wrapped round such parts, which, by being 
kept moist, will encourage the development of roots, 
and young plants will speedily be formed, fit for 
detaching, and treating as separate specimens. The 
subjoined wood-cut shows the habit 
of the species. 
