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Of the botanical collections received from St. Vincent the vascular 

 cryptogams have been determined by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., and an 

 account of them, with two plates, printed in the 'Annals of Botany,' 

 vol. V. (April, 1891), pp. 163-172. Amongst the ferns the most striking 

 novelty is a new species of Asplenium, named A. Godmani, Baker (pi. xi.}, 

 found in damp forests at the extreme top of Morne a Garou, Other new 

 species are Hipnenophyllum vincentiniim, Baker (pi. x.), and Acrostichxim 

 (^Elaphoglossum) Smithii, Baker. The total number of vascular cryptogams 

 found recently in St. Vincent amounts to 168 species. Most of these are 

 widely spread through tropical America and only four are endemic. In 

 addition to the above a new species of Hepaticoc, also from St. Vincent 

 (Kantia vincentina, C. H. Wright), was described in the 'Journal of 

 Botany,' vol. xxix. (April, 1891), p. 107. 



Of the phanerogams from St. Vincent and some of the Grenadines 

 the work of determining these is being carried on as expeditiously as 

 circumstances permit. The collection is a very large one, and the results 

 so far attained are contained in the following memorandam prepared by 

 Mr. R. A. Rolie :— 



The flowering plants have been determined as far as the end of 

 Ratacei3e. Those from St. Vincent number slightly over a hundred 

 species, of which about thirty, consisting for the most part of common 

 West Indian plants, were not previously recorded from the island. The 

 most interesting plant is a species of Trigijneia (apparently new), a small 

 tropical American genus of Anonaceae not hitherto detected in the West 

 Indies. A Glusia and a species of Tetrapterijs, which cannot be identified, 

 may also prove new. The remainder have been fully determined. The 

 three most interesting of these are Noravtca JusdcBi, Tr. and PI., pre- 

 viously known only from Guadaloupe and Dominica; Zantlioxylon micro- 

 carpum, Griseb., from Dominica and Trinidad ; and Z. spinosum, Sw., 

 from Dominica, Jamaica, and Cuba. The composition of the flora of 

 the Lesser Grenadines, situated between St. Vincent and Grenada, was 

 previously almost unknown. The plants hitherto determined are as 

 follows : — From the island of Bequia, 34 species ; from Mustique, 18 ; 

 from Canouan, o ; and from Union, the nearest to Grenada, 5. They are 

 without exception common West Indian plants, and are all also natives 

 of St. Vincent. From the results hitherto obtained it seems clear that 

 the flora of the Lesser Antilles is tolerably uniform throughout, although 

 the larger islands of Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, and possibly 

 St. Vincent, appear to have each a very small endemic element. 



The collections made by Mr. Sherring at Grenada consist of nearly 

 6,000 specimens of vascular cryptogams and about 1,000 specimens of 

 phanerogams. The number of species of ferns is about 140, and of these 

 two are new, viz., Alsophila Elliottii, Baker, and Acrostichum Sherringii, 

 Baker. The phanerogams have not yet been Avorked out. Sixty species 

 of ferns were previously known from Grenada from collections made by 

 Mr. G. R. Murray, F.L.S., and Mr. W. R. Elliott. Mr. Sherring has 

 increased this number to 140. The species of greatest interest, other 

 than those known to be new, are Asplenium Godmani, Baker, recently 

 found in St. Vincent ; Polypodium Hartii, Jenman, first described in 

 188G and known only in the mountains of Jamaica and Dominica ; and 



