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however has been of great use to me owing to the kind assistance 

 of Prof. Urban in looking after doubtful determinations and un- 

 determinated plants and in describing some new species. He has 

 enabled me by his great knowledge to bring out the names of 

 some plants that were collected without flowers or fruits. 

 I feel inclined to express my thanks to Mr. 0. E. Schulz and Dr. 

 F. Niedenzu for the determination of some plants and to Dr. H. 

 Hallier, Dr. A. A. Pulle and Dr. S. H. Koorders for their advices. 

 My best thanks also to Mr. S. Perrin who has helped me in 

 looking after the English text of this Flora. 



This Flora is divided in Three Parts; whereas the different Parts, 

 Sections and Chapters need no further explanation a short account 

 of the methods I followed in nomenclature, synonymy and distri- 

 hution of plants is given here. 



The enumeration of Families and Genera is very nearly given 

 after the order of De Dalle Torre et Harms: Genera siphonoga- 

 marum ad systema Englerianura Conscripta (1908). 

 In a few cases I thougt it better to follow : 

 Urb.in: Symbolae Antillanae vol. I, H, HI, IV (fasc. 1 and 2), ''Z', 

 VI (fasc. 1) and Urban: Additamenta ad Cognitionem Florae 

 Indiae Occidentalis 1892-97. 



The names of the species used are mostly drawn from the two 

 latter papers, Engler und Prantl. : Die natiirlichen Pflanzeufamilie 

 up to 1909, Engler: Regnum Vegetabile up to 1909, or from other 

 monographs. 



Whenever I could not find any name in the above mentioned 

 publications I took the name I thought best after the Internatio- 

 nal rules for Botanical Nomenclature chiefly of Vascular Plants. 

 Wien 1905. (Verb. Int. Bot. Congr. 1805 Wien.). 

 Besides the names thus given I also mention the synonyms that 

 are used in : Grisebach : Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 

 Duss: Flore phanerogamique des Antilles franqaises, Millspaugh : 

 Flora of the Island of St. Croix, and Jackson: Index Kewensis 

 up to 1909 and in a very few cases still another one. 

 I tried to get aim at the greatest completeness possible in giving 

 the data about the names thus used, and I also mentioned the 

 pages where the plants are given up in: Grisebach: Flora of the 



