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bananas and other food-plants and the necessary clearing of its 
sides for this purpose in places quite down to the roadway. It 
is really a great deprivation, at least to visitors, that this marring 
of the beauty of the gully should have been permitted ; the only 
apparent way to correct the evil is to make a park of the valley, 
clear out the extraneous bananas and other unnatural features and 
permit the wild ferns and other interesting plants to resume their 
former attractiveness and beauty. 
Leaving Moneague on the morning of April 9, we proceeded 
to Kingston. The next day was given to packing the collections 
and to a visit to Ferry River, about six miles east, especially for 
specimens of the rare shrub Bumelia rotundifolia, of the Sapo- 
dilla Family, growing on the hillsides there, and for some water 
plants which inhabit that river and its banks. We boarded the 
steamer “‘ Orinoco ”’ in the evening and sailed for New York early 
next morning, arriving on April 16. 
Altogether, on the expedition, 1,407 field numbers of speci- 
mens and plants were secured, the total number of — 
aggregating nearly 4,000, and to these are to be added some 400 
collection numbers of Mr. Harris, of which we will receive the 
duplicates. The work has added materially to our knowledge 
of the West Indian flora and to its representation at the Garden. 
My original plan for the expedition was to cross over to east- 
ern Cuba for about ten days, after having spent most of March 
in Jamaica, and upon the request of Judge Addison Brown, Chair- 
man of the Executive Committee of the Board of Managers of the 
Garden, the Commandant of the United States Naval Station at 
Guantanamo, Cuba, had been requested by the Honorable Sec- 
retary of the Navy to permit me to land there for the purpose of 
collecting plants and specimens and to facilitate this work. 
found, however, that more time than I anticipated was necessary 
to accomplish what I wished to do in Jamaica, and also concluded 
that ten days in eastern Cuba would be insufficient to obtain what 
we desire from that region, so I decided to defer hee Cuban work, 
and have so informed the Commandant at Gua amo. 
aie saecae apes 
. L. BritTon, 
ee in- Chief. 
