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cultivation, and three Species of the bromeliad Hohenbergia, 
to 
of Westmoreland, and Mrs. Vickers at their sugar estate, 
“ Fontabelle,”’ where Mrs. Britton had been their guest for a 
week while collecting in the vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Vickers 
gave us valuable information relative to the extreme western end 
of Jamaica, which we were next to examine botanically, and we 
gratefully appreciate their kindness and hospitality. 
The land about Savanna-la-Mar is a plain almost all under 
cultivation, and of botanical interest mainly in its crops of sugar- 
cane and logwood. We therefore sailed westward at once on 
the afternoon of March 12, exploring the thickets and wood- 
lands on the hills and near the coast, by aid of information and 
personal guidance of Mr. J. S. Brownhill, Lighthouse Superin- 
intendent at Negril Point. These yielded specimens of many 
rare species, including the “ wild sago” (Zama), the existence of 
which in Jamaica was known only from a stem seen by Professor 
Grisebach in the botanical museum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
prior to 1860, but not preserved there at the present time. This 
fine cycad inhabits rocky woodlands east of Negril and is locally 
abundant. Its stem is nearly embedded in the soil, and its leaves 
reach a height of over three feet. March is evidently not its 
flowering season, but after long search Mr. Harris found a 
ripe cone, and several plants with staminate flowers were ob- 
tained. We dug out a quantity of the plants for cultivation, and 
for Museum specimens, these stems acum much starch, like 
their Bahamian congeners. Dr. ick made a careful drawing 
spider-lily (Hymenocallis) urlknown to us. Opportunity was 
