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or which, in the form of rain or dew, trickles down 
among their matted masses from above. 
At the same time there is an unaccountable pre- 
ference of certain localities to others. Thus of the 
vicinity of Bluefields in Westmoreland, and of Con- 
tent in St. Elizabeth’s, including both lowland and 
mountain, the former district is rich in species and 
individuals ; while the latter, embosomed in tall humid 
woods (the pristine forest extending from the level 
of the sea to the summit of the first range of the 
Luana Mountains), possesses, as far as I have seen, 
scarcely a single specimen of any species. Again, the 
low level land around Savanna le Mar seems equally 
destitute of these parasites; but this is less to be 
wondered at, since so large a portion of the district is 
overrun with logwood (as is indeed a large part of the 
once-cleared land in St. Elizabeth’s), a tree on which 
I do not remember to have found an Orchideous 
plant, (though Tillandsics are common enough on it), 
with the exception of Oncidium Carthaginense y which 
occasionally grows on the hedges that are made of 
this thorn-like tree, 
DEPARTURE AND RETURN. 
At length the day arrived for my departure from 
Bluefields. On the 19th of June, 1846, I embarked 
on board a little drogger, or coasting sloop, for King- 
ston, and cast a farewell glance, not without regretful 
yearnings, on the sunny slopes, and wooded glades, 
and mountain-peaks, where I had spent so many 
pleasant months. Seven dreary days were swallowed 
