448 REPORT-—1890. 
Mr. Godman has agreed to give a first set of the zoological specimens 
obtained by his collector to the National Collection contained in the 
British Museum, and the Committee is at present endeavouring to find 
competent zoologists to work out the extensive series of insects and 
spiders that has been obtained. 
Commander Markham, R.N., contributed some specimens in zoology 
collected by him in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the West 
Indies, and Captain Hellard, R.E., local secretary to the Committee at 
St. Lucia, has recently forwarded four boxes of Lepidoptera collected by 
him in that island. 
Botany. 
A small collection of plants, numbering 143 specimens, was received 
from Mr. J. J. Walsh, R.N. This collection included plants from 
Dominica, St. Martin’s, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Grenada. 
Most of the plants consisted of common West Indian species, presumably 
such as would be met with in the more accessible spots in the various 
places visited. 
The remainder of the plants collected by Mr. Ramage at St. Lucia 
have been determined. Of 84 species sent 62 have been fully determined. 
The others include several that are apparently new. They are wholly 
woody or forest plants, and comprise Sleanea sp., Picramniasp., Zanthoxrylum 
sp., Bursera sp., Miconia sp., Cybianthus sp., Lucwma sp., Siparuna sp., 
Helosis sp., Gymnanthes sp., and Cyclanthus sp. In one or two cases 
the material is hardly sufficient for satisfactory determination. Two 
of the above undetermined species have also been collected in Dominica 
and one in Martinique by earlier collectors. 
Three collections have been received from St. Vincent through Mr. 
Godman, viz., in September 1889, and March and August 1890. The 
first collection has been determined at Kew by Mr. Rolfe as far as the 
end of the Polypetale. Of the 252 numbers (to this point) 47 were 
duplicates ; thus 205 species were represented. All but about 9 of these 
were fully determined, the great bulk consisting of widely diffused West 
Indian plants; 128, or more than half, appear to have been recorded 
from the island before. 
The undetermined specimens are Trattinickia sp., Stigmaphyllon sp., 
Trichilia sp., Meliosma sp., Lysiloma sp., Moquilea sp., a species of Hugenia 
cbtained by Hahn in Martinique, and two species probably of Pithecolobiwm, 
of which the material was somewhat inadequate. Several of these appear 
to be new, the first-named being specially interesting, because the genus 
was hitherto only known from Guiana and Brazil. In addition to this 
may be mentioned that several species of somewhat restricted distribu- 
tion in the West Indies, more especially from Martinique and St. Lucia, 
have also been found in St. Vincent. 
The second collection from St. Vincent consisted for the most part of 
ferns. Mr. J. G. Baker has fully worked out these. They include 133 
species and well-marked varieties, three of which are new. The specimens 
are in excellent state of preservation, and it is probable that we have 
amongst them nearly all the fern flora of the island, both of the mountains 
and the lowlands. 
As our knowledge of the fern flora of St. Vincent may be now re- 
garded as practically exhaustive, it seems probable that some species 
hitherto attributed to the island, on the authority of specimens collected 
