only parasitical Orchideous ‘plant found in the United 
States. It inhabits, indeed, only the southern territories, 
sometimes growing on the trunk of the Oaks, but far more 
venerally on -that.of Macnouia grandiflora, , It was, first 
ound by Mr. Wiriiam Barrram in Florida, and among the 
very last despatches of plants sent by the late Mr. Drum- 
MOND, which were from Apalachicola in West Florida, were 
several specimens of this delicate epiphyte. Mr. Exxiorr 
observes, that its most northern limit is at the entrance of 
Port Royal Inlet, on the coast of Carolina, in lat. 32. 
Indeed it seems to be confined chiefly to the vicinity of the 
sea; yet it must be capable of enduring some degree of 
frost, for at the very time that Mr. Drummonp procured his 
living plants at the spot above-mentioned, the ice was so 
thick in one night’s time as to bear the weight of a man. 
Our flowering specimens were obligingly communicated by 
Messrs. Suepuerps, from the rich collection of Epiphytes at 
the Liverpool Botanic Garden, to which it was sent from 
North Carolina, by Mr. Gorpon, attached to branches of 
Macnouia grandiflora. 6) CEhS 
Deser. “Whole plant not more than four to five inches 
high, slender, graceful. Roots thick, fleshy, vermicular. 
Stems. short, scarcely an inch long, and not thicker.than a 
sparrow’s quill. Leaves two, oblongo-laneeolate, acute, 
springing from the extremity of the short stems, and from 
the middle of them arises a peduncle, bearing five to six 
pale yellowish-green flowers. Sepals cuneato-spathulate, 
spreading: petals similar, but narrower. Lip three-lobed, 
lobes broad, middle one emarginate ; at the base above are 
two glands. Column elongated, the margin reddish. An- 
ther-case hemisperical, 
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Fig. 1... Front view of the Lip and Column magnified. ; 
The 
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