TL? THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 
weight. These bananas flower and ripen fruit all the year round; but 
there is considerable difference in the time it takes. A plant flowering 
ari April,with the summer before it, will produce a bunch fit to cut in 90 
or 100 days; a plant flowering in November, with the winter before it, 
will take 150 or 160 days. 
It is almost the only fruit always procurable in Bermuda, but the 
growth is too much left to chance, little or no horticultural skill being 
applied to it. 
Strelitzia Regine, Ait. Crane’s bill. 
To be found in many gardens. 
TV .—BROMELIACEA. 
Ananassa sativa, Mill. Pineapple. 
The pineapple was extensively cultivated in Bermuda in the seven- 
teenth century, and is frequently referred to the Records. Its complete 
disappearance concurs with other indications to suggest that the climate — 
has undergonea change. The mean temperature of Bermuda is much be- 
low that of the Bahamas, where they are so largely grown. Several 
plants were set out in Mount Langton Garden in 1875, but came to 
nothing, very possibly, however, from not being fresh enough, from in- 
sufficient manuring, or for want of skill. 
Billbergia farinosa, Hort., and B. tinctoria, Mart. 
Sent from the Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, Mass., 1874. Failed to 
establish themselves. 
V.—ORCHIDE#. 
Spiranthes brevilabris, Lindt. (Q. S. apiculata?) 
The only native orchid, now tolerably abundant in Devonshire and 
Pembroke marshes, where it fiowers in May; the species is not fully 
ascertained. Dr. Rein calls it S. tortilis, but remarks that he only saw 
two specimens. . 
Several common West Indian orchids have been introduced from time 
to time, and occasionally flower, e. g. Oncidium Papilio, Lindl., at Caven- 
dish; others at Clarence Hill. The vanilla plant, Vanillu planifolia, 
was imported from Trinidad in 1872, but made little growth, and had not 
tlowered in 1877. 
VI.—IRIDEZ. 
Iris violacea, Sweet. Iris. 
I. Virginica, Linn. 
Sisyrinchium Bermudiana, Linn., loc. Bermudiana. 
Native, and universal; classed by Bentkam also among native Brit 
