486 WESTMORELAND. 



Brasavola nodosa has perhaps an equal range as to 

 elevation, and is found on the same trees as those just 

 mentioned, frequently in company with Broughtonia. 

 It also affects the Yokewood (a species of Bigno- 

 nid), the Birch {Bursera), and many other trees ; 

 being one of the commonest of the lowland Orchids. 

 The leafless Angrcecum funale, as I have before inti- 

 mated, clings by its tortuous roots to the trunk of 

 the Calabash, at the height of a yard or two from 

 the earth ; the great mass of its roots depending, in 

 a tangled plexus, in the air. 



Oncidium Carthaginense also prefers the Calabash ; 

 but it is found likewise on the Fiddlewood (^Cytha- 

 raxylon) and other trees, always on the branches, or 

 in the forks, at an elevation of from fifteen to thirty 

 feet. The flat bulbs of a Maxillaria (as I believe) 

 cling in abundance to the trees growing in the morass 

 that borders the shore at Cave ; and I have found 

 what I suppose the same genus, with a little Epiden- 

 drum, on a Star-apple tree {Chrysophyllum) half way 

 up the mountain. On Bluefields Peaks, Max. Bar- 

 ■ringtonice is numerous, affecting the trunks of various 

 trees, close doivn to the ground. I have taken the 

 bulbs also from a fallen trunk near Kilmarnock, in 

 the mountains of St Elizabeth's. Epidendrum nutans 

 clings to the trunks of large trees in the mountains, 

 twenty and thirty feet from the ground; and the 

 habits oi E. umhellatum and E.fuscatum are similar, 

 the latter at a moderate elevation, the former near the 

 sea-shore. Epid. ciliare prefers the Avocado-pear 

 (Persea) ; and is confined, I believe, to the mountains ; 

 I have found it most common on such trees in open 



