ovary so as to form a cimiculus. Column straight Anther hid 
within the clinandrium^ foiir-ceiled. Pollen-masses four, with as 
many reflexed caudicles or tails. Ovary club-shaped. Seeds nu¬ 
merous, like particles of dust. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. This plant is properly 
the Epidendrum diffbrme of Jacquin, who first described it from speci¬ 
mens brought from Martinique. It has a much wider range than 
Epidendrum nutans, as it is met with not only in several of the M est 
Indian Islands, such as Jamaica, St. Vincent, but probably also in 
Mexico. Jacquin states than in Martinique, it clothes generally the 
large trees. It were well, however, to ascertain what kind of trees it 
chiefly dwells upon, for though orchideous plants are not parasites, 
and therefore derive no nourishment from the juices of the tree to 
which they are attached, they yet have their preferences regarding the 
tribe, genus, and even species of tree on which they are found. Thus 
BI. Descourtilz, in his account of the Orchidaceee of Brazil, states 
‘"Amidst this forest of ropes of sylvan rigging, grow innumerable 
Ferns, which hang down in plumes, or festoons, or the gayest lace- 
work, vast quantities of Araceous plants, and especially Tillandsias, 
forming broad patches of verdure upon a sombre ground. In the 
midst of airy garlands of Aristolochias, Bignonias, Convolvuluses, 
and Passion-flowers, live the Orchidacese, each particular species of 
which seems to haunt its own peculiar plants Thus the Epidendrum 
of the Cinchona refuses to live in the branches of the Lecythis and 
Coutarea ; notwithstanding that the seeds of these epiphytes are scat¬ 
tered indiscriminately by the wind. Other tribes, again, are always 
free from Orchidaceie, as the high trunks of Malvaceous trees, Ixoras. 
Carolineas, Plantains, and Palms.” Bot. Register, 1839. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. Brought from Ja^ 
maica, in 1793, by Vice-Admiral Bligh. Our plant grew in the stove 
of Messrs. Loddiges, at Hackney, It requires the usual treatment of 
such plants, and flowers in June and July. The flowers have some 
scent, but it is scarcely agreeable. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Ejpidendrfm, from iTTi, upon; and a tree. UMBELLATCMjfroUi rUHhellS. 
the corymbose inflorescence resembling Rn umbel. 
Synonymes. 
Epidendrum FMBEiLATUM. Swartz: Prodromus, 121- Botanical Magazinei 
2030. Lindley: Genera and Species, p. 102. 
l&piDENDRUM DiFFORME. Jacquiii: American, 223, t. 130. 
Epibenprum gorymbosum. Flora Peruv. System, 240?. 
