VIII Preface. 



British West Indian Islands, Duss: Flore phanerogamique des An- 

 tilles francjaises, Millspaugh : Flore of the Island of St. Croix and 

 in a few cases sLill some other work. 



To every plant is added the name of the Dutch West Indian 

 Leeward Island where it is found in this order: St. Eustatius, 

 Saba, St. Martin ; whenever I saw or collected it also on Anguilla 

 this Island too is mentioned ') and when the plant is also known 

 from St. Croix this Island is named after Anguilla. 

 I have mentioned as much as I could find about the distribution 

 of the plants in all parts of the world, and these data are taken 

 from the following publications in this order: 

 Urban : Symbolae Antillanae Vol. I, II, III, IV (fasc. 1 and 2), V, 

 VI (fasc. 1) and Additamenta ad Cognitionem Florae Indiae Occi- 

 dentalis (1892—97), Engler: Regnuni vegetabile up to April 1909, 

 Engler und Prantl: Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien up to 1909, 

 newer Monographs and Jackson: Index Kewensis up to 1909. 

 For the abbreviated names see under Literature. 

 Prof. Urban was so kind as to allow me the use of the not yet 

 published data from the Herbar Krug et Urban Berlin (Steglitz- 

 Dahlem). A few data are from „'s Rijksherbarium" at Leiden. 

 Whenever I could not find that a plant was known in other 

 parts of the world besides the Antilles, then the names of all 

 the Islands where it is found are enumerated. 



The Systematic Part consists of the plants belonging to the col- 

 lections of Suringar, van Grol-Meyers, Lionarons and Boldingh. 

 The numbers with B. added are from the collection Boldingh, 

 marked G. are from the collection van Grol-Meyers when they 

 belong to the collection in the Herbarium at Utrecht, marked H 

 when they belong to the collection in the Koloniaal Museum at 

 Haarlem; the numbers marked L. are from the collection Liona- 

 rons and the numbers where no initials are added are from the 

 collection Suringar. 



The numbers of the collections Suringar were not given by Suringar 

 when he collected the plants (as Suringar dit not put any num- 

 ber on the labels) but they are only the last ciphers of the long 

 number that is fixed to the paper on which the plants are moun- 

 ted in ,,'sRijks Herbarium" at Leiden. 

 As I am sure that when giving the name under which the plant 



1) See Literature : Boldingh. 



