A. GRISEBACH. 
(Read August 14, 1860.) 
[Tas colléotiog: of dried plants of which dit Grisebach has here eoisseioid to give the. determi- 
tions, with diagnoses of the new genera and species, was made by Mr. Charles Wright, i in the eastern part 
the. island of Cuba, partly in the years 1856 and 1857, and partly in 1859 and the beginning of 1860. 
The specimens were mainly gathered in the high country and mountains behind Santiago de Cuba and Cobre 
ly within a moderate distance of F'lanthropia, the hospitable country residence of George Bradford, 
Esq), and especially in the elevated district back of Santa Catalina de Guantanamo, where the collector's 
station was JMonte Verde, a coffee-plantation and residence of the most estimable and hospitable M. 
le; from which place as a centre Mr. Wright is still prosecuting : and. extending his herborizations. . That 
field is a rich and promising one, the great number of interesting and new species, enumerated in this and 
following papers, abundantly . show. In the distribution of these materials, the fullest set of the collection of 
j6—57 was assigned to Professor Grisebach, in order that they might be studied by him, along with the - 
rials of his Flora of the British West Indian Islands, now in course of publieation. This set, enriched by 
the collector's valuable memoranda, was-unfortunately lost on its way to Góttingen. As it could be only par- 
replaced, certain species of the first distribution have not been examined by Dr. Grisebach. Such of 
hese species as I could name, more or less confidently, I have ventured to intercalate, always enclosing such 
additions, and other brief annotations I have had occasion tó make, within brackets. "When extracts from 
Wright's memoranda are given, they are e placed. within f onceccien  Determinations of the JMono- 
», &c. "- follow. — Asa Gnax.] 
RAN UN CULACE.E. 
