• ' PREFACE • • * 



The present volume continues the systematic account of the 

 flowering plants of Jamaica on the same lines as Volume III. 

 There has been some delay in publication owing to conditions 

 prevailing during the last five years. The fact that printing was 

 begun in 1917 will explain the absence of reference, especially 

 in the earlier sheets, to papers which may have appeared 

 subsequently. 



We are again indebted for the loan of specimens to the 

 Government of Jamaica, and to various institutions and indi- 

 viduals previously mentioned, especially to the Directoi's of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Edinburgh, the Bristol 

 Museum, and the Naturhistoriska Riks-Museum at Stockholm. 



A. B. RENDLE. 



Department of Botany, 



British Museum (Natural History), 



Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 



February, 1920. 



