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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 {Bur sera), 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 CartJiaginense 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 down 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 of 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 
{Persed) ; and is confined, I believe, to the mountains ; 
I have found it most common on such trees in open 
