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III 



Of special interest also were Jamaican specimens collected in the 

 i8th century by Houstoun, William Wright, Dancer, Roger Shake- 

 speare, Masson, and Wiles, and well preserved material gathered in 



Fig. 96. — Pond, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



the last century by numerous collectors, chiefly Bancroft, Heward, 

 Macfadyen, Hartweg, Purdie, Gosse, Wilson, Alexander, and March, 

 besides the more recent collections by Nock, Jenman, Sherring, Faw- 

 cett, Morris, Hart, and Harris. Here too is found the herbarium of 



