As a genus, Trichocentrum must rank next to JEceoclailes, 

 from which it principally differs in having the labellum 

 united at the base with the column, and in the latter having 

 two ears or wings. It is also close upon AngrcBcum and 

 Mystacid'mm, with which it agrees in habit, but from which 

 it is abundantly distinct. 



To the two species now admitted into the genus Tricho- 

 centrum, must, I think, be added, as a third, the Limodorum 

 funale of Swartz, a very curious leafless Jamaica epiphyte, 

 which no modern botanist seems to have met with alive, and 

 which I only know from Swartz's description. He states it 

 to grow upon old trunks of trees on the mountains of Jamaica, 

 emitting numerous, simple, stiff, thick, pale green roots, 

 from two to three feet long, and having, in the spring, large 

 whitish flowers in pairs. This plant ought to be sought for 

 again ; if it were not found, there would be other species to 

 reward the trouble of the traveller, for I see there are not 

 fewer than twenty species of Jamaica epiphytes described by 

 Swartz, of which none have as yet reached England alive ; 

 not to mention the Cymbidium utriculatum, a terrestrial 

 species inhabiting moist woods on the island, having a tuber 

 as large as the largest potatoe, a scape about two feet high, 

 Calanthe-like leaves, and pretty large (majusculi) white 

 succulent flowers. 



