KEW YC 

 BOTANICAL 



OF THE 



JAMAICA FERNS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



ffHIS LIST of the Jamaica Ferns I drew up some 



time ago as a reference for my own convenience in 

 carrying on a long, and still, delayed descriptive work on 

 the subject, and, though a bare enumeration, it may be 

 of service to others. The great majority of the plants 

 mentioned I gathered myself in their homes during the 

 years between 187 4.-9 ; the rest are included on the 

 authority of the works of Grisebach, Hooker, and 

 Baker. A careful scrutiny of the West India Ferns 

 in the Kew Herbarium would doubtless prove that the 

 List is not complete ; it is however as full as my own 

 knowledge and the specif c geographical references of 

 the reliable authors named enabled me to make it 



But it is very probable from the many previously 

 knoivn species that I gathered ivhich are not definitely 

 ascribed to Jamaica in published works, that more of the 

 number assigned in Hooker and Baker s " Sy?iopsis 

 Filicunx' to the West Indies in general, or there limited 

 to pertain of the islands, are indigenous to Jamaica. 

 Wyii regard to Cuba I may remark that, though it is 

 so much larger, its physical conformation and the 

 common character of its flora with that of Jamaica, 

 together with its contiguity, strongly favour the 

 pres\cmj)tion that a plant found in one of the countries 



