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^ Hotels in Paramaribo cannot be said to be very good, though they 



are not expensive; the average price per day is fl. 5 ($2). In the 

 interior there do not exist hotels or boarding-houses; whoever cannot 

 be the guest of a planter or other European living in the interior will 

 have to carry with him a hammock, tinned food, and other necessities. 

 If we estimate for traveling and other smaller expenses $200, for 

 clothing $ioo-$i5o, a four-months stay would cost about 5540-5600 

 plus the steamship fares. There are several direct lines from the 

 United States to Barbados, whence every fortnight a steamer of the 

 Royal Mail Steampacket Company sails for Demerara and Paramaribo 

 in about four or five days. The Dutch mail steamers of the Koninklijke 

 West-Indische Maildienst (Royal Dutch West-Indian Mail Service) 

 sail twice a month from New York via Port-au-Prince, Aux Cayes, 

 Jacmel, Curasao, Puerto Cabello, La Guayra, Guanta, Cumana, Caru- 

 pano, Trinidad, and Demerara to Paramaribo, whence they proceed to 

 Amsterdam. A first-class ticket from New York to Paramaribo costs 

 5ioo; a return ticket, available for a year, $170. But the company is 

 willing to give a reduction of 15 per cent, on this tariff to every 

 J naturalist who goes to Surinam with the aim of studying in the labo- 



I ratory in Paramaribo. In order to get this reduction one has to make 



an application (with documents to prove this intention) to the agents 

 of the company at New York (Kunhardt & Co.). 



The average temperature at Paramaribo is 27° C. (max. 30-33 , 

 min. 20-22° C). The big rainy season lasts from the middle of April 

 to the end of February; the dry seasons very often are not so very dry; 

 the total amount of the rainfall is about 2,500"'" yearly. The flowering 

 times are about August, September, October, and from January till 

 April. Whoever intends to make a stay in the new laboratory will 

 J^ave to apply to the agricultural inspector in Paramaribo, whose 

 appointment will be made shortly and will be announced in the botan- 

 ical journals; moreover, I am willing to give any further information. 

 F. A, F. C. Went, University of Utrecht, Holland. 



NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN WOODY PLANTS. 



Crataegus hystricina, n. sp.— A small irregular shrub 9-15 ^"^ high, 

 with several stems from the same root. Bark on the slender stems 

 ^ough, dark gray, that on the branches smooth and lighter. ^ J^^'^g^ 

 stout, red-brown, glabrous, armed with brown-purple thorns 4-6 '"^ long. 

 Leaves ovate or suborbicular, abruptly acute at apex, rounded or acute 



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