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magnified. Fig. 8, Drupe, with part of the fleshy coat 
removed. Fig. 9, Section of the nut, to show the albumen. 
Fig. 10, Transverse section of the albumen. Fig. 11, Em- 
bryo. Fig. 12, Portion of the testa, with its prickles 
within:—all more or less magnified, except figs. 1, 5, — 
and 6. 
[To be continued.) 
SKETCH OF A SHORT BOTANICAL EXCURSION 
IN JAMAICA. 
By James Macrapyen, M. D. 
Tuere are few works on Natural History that have done | 
more to render the science attractive and have been more. 
generally read, than the Natural History of Selbourne. 
Calculated to excite a similar interest, are the short accounts - 
which have been given of excursions, made with a view of 
gratifying a taste for this départment of science. "The nar- 
rator is, in this manner, enabled to present us with a series 
of simple facts; blending with the common-place matter 
of his journal, notices of what appear to him novel or remark- 
able in the productions of the district through which he 
has passed. In reading such, we, in a manner, become his 
companions,—mark every striking object that meets him in - 
his path, and sympathize in the pleasure of contemplating 
each beautiful feature, or unusual phenomenon. Under im- 
pressions such as these, I have been led to draw up the follow- 
ing account of a little excursion, made in the neighbourhood 
of Spanish-Town. I shall, by this means, be enabled to 
point out the localities of several of the rarer plants, to 
notice the influence of soil and climate, and to convey 8n 
idea of the vegetation of the district, in a clearer manner 
than could otherwise be effected. : 
In the morning of Monday, the 22d December, 1829, I 
left Spanish-Town, My road lay towards St, John’s, the 
hills of which, marking the boundary of the two parishes, ros 
