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TWO NEW ORCHIDS FROM JAMAICA. 

 By William Fawcett, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



Epidendrum tridentatum, sp. n. Stem equal at base, leafy 

 to inflorescence. Leaves alternate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 clasping. Injlorescence a raceme or panicle, terminal, nodding ; 

 sterile bract none or one, floral bracts awl-shaped. Flowers greenish- 

 yellow. Sepals spathulate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, acute. 

 Petals shorter than sepals, spathulate-linear. Labellum adnate to 

 column, 3-6-lobcd, 2-callous at base ; lateral lobes trapezoid- 

 roundisli, middle smaller, of 3 triangular lobules. 



Habitat. Blue Mountains, Jamaica. Coll. W. Harris, April, 

 1893. 



Plant U-2 ft. high. Leaf 5-7 in. long, 10-12 lines broad. 

 Sterile bract G lines long. Floral bracts 3-5 lines long. Sepals 

 8-9 lines long. 



Pleurothallis uncinata, sp. n. Stcin biangular, about as long 

 as the leaf, with appressed flaccid sheaths at the nodes. Leaf 

 lanceolate, 5 or 6 times as long as the peduncles (8-9 in. long, 

 nearly 2 in. broad). Peduncles 1-flowered, solitary or fascicled 

 (2 or 3). Sepals oblong-lanceolate, lateral shortly connate at base, 

 sometimes cohering above, externally scabrous, purplish, 7 lines 

 long. Petals linear-lanceolate, half as long as sepals, orange- 

 coloured at base, purplish above. Labellum as long as petals, 

 indistinctly 3-lobed ; lateral lobes almost obsolete, but furnished 

 each with a hook-like process embracing the column ; middle lobe 

 oblong, blunt, minutely fimbriate-serrate, purplish. 



Habitat. Near Newcastle, Jamaica. Coll. W. Harris, June, 1893. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

 VIII. — Jane Golden and the Floea of New York. 



While looking up matter for the sketch of William Young 

 (Jonni. Hut. 1894, 332), I came across two or three references to 

 Miss Colden, another early American botanist whose MS. work is 

 preserved in the British Museum ; and I have thought that some 

 account of her may be interesting. The history of her father, 

 Cadwallader Colden, is given at length by Asa Gray in Silliman's 

 Journal for 1843,* but his daughter is only referred to by Gray in 

 a footnote, in which he states that she "died unmarried." Gray 

 had access to the "voluminous correspondence" of Colden, and 

 had, it must be supposed, some ground for this assertion, which, 

 however, conflicts with all other accounts. Among Colden's letters 

 is one to Gronovius, dated Oct. 1st, 1755, in which he gives the 

 following account of his daughter's botanical work : — 



' Selections from the Scientific Correspondence of Cadwallader Colden with 

 Gronovius, Linnaaus, CoUinson, and other Naturalists,' Amer. Journ. Science (& 

 ArU% xliv. 85-133, 



