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growing in great luxuriance. Handsome Begonics, 
are numerous, some of which are semi-parasitical, 
clinging to the trunks of the larger trees, and climbing 
with a profusion of stems and foliage to the height of 
twenty feet or more. This is not the usual habit of 
Begonics, Within the edge of the woods, which is 
always much more dense and bushy than the interior, 
a terrestrial Orchid, which I have no means of 
identifying, with large irregular tubers, and ample 
plaited leaves much like those of Bletia, grows to the 
height of three feet. The appearance of the plant is 
striking, but the blossom, which appears in June, 
has little beauty. 
A tangled path through the woods of what was 
formerly a coffee property named Bognie, now de- 
serted and allowed to fall into neglect and ruin, leads 
to a little retired plantation called Inverary, em- 
bosomed in the lofty primitive forest. Its elevation 
is but little inferior to that of Bluefields Peak, and 
the prospect from it, if not quite so extensive, is 
more rich and varied. In one direction it takes in 
Montego Bay on the north side of the island ; in 
another it looks over the capes of Negril and the 
expanse of blue sea far beyond ; to the eastward 
it extends to the parish of Vere, over four ranges of 
mountains. 
A very noble species of wild Pine {j^chmea) was 
in blossom at the time I visited the place, about the 
end of January ; a magnificent spike of densely set 
dowsers, crimson and purple, shooting out from the 
tuft of broad sheathing leaves, parasitically growing 
