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dially received by Hon. H. H. Cousins, Director of Agriculture, 
who facilitated our work in many ways; we had a pleasant in- 
terview with his Excellency, Sir Sydney Olivier, and are grateful 
to him for his interest in our investigations. 
Our principal object in visiting Jamaica at this time was the 
exploration of the difficult John Crow Mountain Range, near the 
eastern end of - island, which we had failed to accomplish last 
autumn, owing to heavy rains. We proceeded by carriage from 
Kingston on See ary 28, accompanied by Mr. Harris, driving 
forty miles east along the south coast to Bowden, on the beautiful 
harbor of Port Morant, where the Peak View Hotel of the United 
Fruit Company was made the collecting base for two weeks. A 
number of interesting plants were found in thickets and wood- 
lands along the road, among them a fine climbing vine of the 
genus Paullinia, of the Soapberry Family, covered with showy 
fruit, museum specimens of which were obtained. 
The next day was taken up with making arrangements for 
guides and bearers and in visiting Stokes Hall, the residence of 
A. C. Bancroft, Esq., where we were hospitably received by Mrs, 
Bancroft, and were shown the interesting stone mansion, which 
was built in the time of Cromwell, and the pond in which the 
Asiatic lotus (Ve/umbée) has been established for many years. 
Our first penetration of the John Crow Mountains was accom- 
plished on March 2, 3, and 4, leaving Mrs. Britton at Bowden to 
care for the collections. Mr, Harris and I drove to Bachelor's 
Hall, the scene of our failure last autumn, and with five men 
climbed into the southeastern foothills of the range, traversing 
cleared and cultivated slopes up to about goo feet altitude, suc- 
ceeded by the wonderfully attractive virgin forest, composed of 
many kinds of tall trees, among them magnificent specimens of 
the mammee apple (Mammea americana), widely distributed in 
the West Indies, but here reaching splendid development, and 
the local and little-known Lunania polydactyla, of the Flacourtia 
Family, of which excellent specimens were collected ; the under- 
growth of the forest is composed of many kinds of small trees 
and shrubs, several of them seen here by us for the first time, 
together with many ferns, and a fine growth of the long-thatch 
