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Port-of-Spain, we begin the descent at 12.30 p.m. Stopping for a 

 moment at our temporary depot to assemble our treasures, and 

 pack things up properly for the descent, we take almost the 

 same route back, and soon find ourselves in the lower region of 

 cocoa estates and provision gardens, and at 2.45 we are once more 

 on the Las Cuevas Road. At 3 p.m., my brother and myself 

 reached our station at La Florida, and we all meet again at the 

 St. Joseph's Station in time to catch the last train for Port-of- 

 Spain, after having thoroughly enjoyed ourselves in this success- 

 ful ascent of Tucuche, and being quite ready to repeat the trip on a 

 future occasion. 



Appended is a list of some of the plants found on Tucuche 

 by Mr. W. E. Broadway and determined by Mr. J. H. Hart 

 of the Botanic Gardens. They are as follows : — 



*Margraviaumbellata, L. 



Esoibeckia castanocarpa, Gr. 



Leguminosa, sp. 



Mclastomacca, sp. 



\Panox attcnaatum, Sw Didymopanax. 



Rubiacca, several species 



Composite 



Neurolccana lobata, R. Br. 



A pterin setae ea, Nutt. 



JEchmea, sp. 



Solatium jamaicense. Sw ? 



Scleria latifolia, Sw. 



Cyperacea, sp. 



Ichnanthus pallens, Doell. 



Begonia, sp. 



Pleuroththallis, sp. 



Artkrostyliume excelsum, Gr. 



Philodendron. 



Acrostichum alienum Sw. 



Sclaginclla sp. 

 Poly gala paniculata L. 

 Alsophylla aspera R. Br. 

 Poly podium serrulatum Mett. 



Id trichoma noides Sw. 

 Gleickenia pubescens H.B.K. 

 Hemctclia grandiflora. Sprenj.'. 

 Adiantum tetraphyUum, Willd. 

 Hymenophyllum cilia turn, Sw. 

 Poly podium taxi folium, L. 

 Musci possibly Hypnum. 

 Hepatica, 



Alsophila sagettafolia, Hook 

 Poly podium decussatum, L. 

 Spiranthes data, Rich. 

 Cranichis muscosa, Sw. 

 Maranta Tcuchat, Aublt. 

 Jungermannia, sp. 

 Sphagmocca, sp. 



* This plant was collected by Crueger on the same mountain in 1847. 

 t Nearest approach to English Ivy in the Tropics. 



6th October, 1893. 



NOTE ON THE BREEDING OP THE NIC JUT JAB. 

 Xyriidromus albicolUs Gin. — Caprimulffus albicollis Leotaud. 



By the late Beaven Rake, M.D. (Lond). 



ONE afternoon early in May when Mr. Tate and I were out 

 with our butterfly nets, we put up a night jar from pome 

 recently cleared land. I remarked to Mr. Tate thai if the bird 

 followed the custom of its European relative the eggs ought to be 



