HISTORICAL 



CHAPTER I 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



The following persons have given informations about the 

 Flora of the Dutch West Indian Islands. Liter. Urban Symbolae An- 

 tillanae Vol. I an.l ^'ol. III. 



St. Eustatius. 



J. B. Labat^ between 1694 and 1705. 



■T. B. Labat in his: Nouveau voj-age aux isles de I'Aiuerique. . . . 

 Editio 1724. La Haye, does not give any compendium of the 

 vegetation of the Dutch Antilles. 



N. J. Jacquin between 1755 and 1757. 



N. J. Jacquin in his: Selectarum stirpiumamericanuni historia, in 



qua ad Linnaeanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistuntur 



plantae illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo aliisque 



et in vicinae Continente parte observavit rariores; adjectis iconi- 



bus in solo natali delineastis. Vindobonae 1768, mentions only 6 



plants found in St. Eustatius, of which I point out only those 



quoted by Grisebach in his : Systematische Untersuchungen iibor 



die Vegettition der Karaiben, insbesondere der Insel Guadeloupe: 



Justicia sessilis. 



Justitia eustachyana. (Beloperone (.'ustachiana Benth.). 



Heliotropium gnaphaloides. (Tournefortia gnaphalodes R. Br.). 



Coccoloba nivea. 



Cactus triangularis. (Cereus triangularis Haw.). 



(Herb. Banks. Brit. Mus. London; Herb. Willd. Berlin). 



F. Masson 1780. 



I only saw Masson mentioned by 0. Sivartz in his: Flora Indiae 



occidentalis, concerning Microtea debilis. 



(Brit. Mus. Loudon). 



