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There is in the Jamaica Portrait Gallery of the Institute of 

 Jamaica a pencil drawing of Robinson's head made from life by 

 Edward Long. It was formerly in Eobinson's collection of drawings. 



Feaijk Cundall. 



Robinson's drawings vary much in style. They are sometimes 

 quite rough, just sufficient to indicate important points of structure, 

 and are often accompanied by memoranda for his further use. Most 

 of the drawings are so accurate that it is possible to name them. 

 The manuscript descriptions are good. Robinson's object seems to 

 have been to supplement and, if necessary, to correct Sloan e and 

 Browne. For instance, he states his opinion that the genus Ellisia 

 of Browne must be the same as Duranta of Linnaeus ; later he receives 

 the new edition (2nd) of Linnseus's Sjjecies Plantarum, and finds 

 that Browne's plant is described as a new sjDecies of Duranta^ namely, 

 D. Ellisia. He described and named new genera, but never published 

 his descriptions. For instance, he gave a generic description with 

 complete drawings of the tree known in Jamaica as the Boar Wood 

 Tree, Hog Doctor Tree, or Hog Gum Tree {SympJwnia glohulifera 

 L. f.) with a generic name {Sigsonia), and a specific diagnosis. 

 Sloane (Hist. ii. 90), followed by Browne (Hist. Jam. 177, t. 13. f. 3) 

 and De Candolle (Prodr. ii. 67) had assigned the comm.on names to 

 Bhus Metopium L. Dr. E. N. Bancroft, of Jamaica, read a ^Daper 

 there in 1829 (published in 1841 in Hooker's Journ. Bot. iv. 13G), 

 in which he describes the history of the discovery of the true soui'ce 

 of the " hog gum." Bertero was in Jamaica in 1821 and met Higson, 

 a Kingston merchant, and later Island Botanist and Curator of the 

 Bath Garden. Higson showed Bertero the tree growing in the 

 mountains, and Bertero wrote a botanical description of the flowers, 

 and gave a copy to Higson. Bancroft wrote a detailed description of 

 the tree from specimens of flowers and fruit supplied by Higson, with 

 Bertero's notes before him. It is interesting to note that the name 

 Higsonia inscribed on Robinson's drawings is there attributed to 

 Bertero. W. Fawcett. 



^ON THE GENERIC NAME WIKSTRCEMIA. 



In 1918 I proposed (Contr. Gray Herb. n. ser. liii. pp. 36-41) to 

 replace the name Lccplacea H.B.K., under which a good-sized genus 

 of the Ternstroemiacece has been generally known for many years, by 

 the earlier Wikstroemia Schrad. At the same time I suggested that 

 the name Wicksfrosmia Endl., published some years after Schrader's 

 genus, and placed on the list of " nomina conservanda " by the 

 International Congress in 1905, should be replaced by Caimra 

 L. Rehder (Journ. Arn. Arb. ii. p. 158 ; 1921) and Sj^rague (Kew 

 Bull. 1921, pp. 175-176; 1921), have shown independently that this 

 course was incorrect, inasmuch as under the International Rules the 

 name Wicl'stroemia Endl. must be retained in all cases, and there- 

 fore Wikstroemia Schrad., although the first use of this name, is 



