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On March 13, Dr. Howe, Mrs. Britton, and I drove from Bowden 
to Port Antonio, and took the steamer “ Aviles” for Santiago, 
Cuba, thus closing this episode in the botanical exploration of 
Jamaica. The scientific results were noteworthy and the collec- 
tions of the Garden were materially increased. I now plan to com- 
plete the manuscript of the Jamaica flora 
Our purposes in visiting eastern Cuba were the increase of the 
Garden’s collections of Cuban species; to further determine the 
Fic. 17. Acrocomia, near San Juan Hill, Cuba. 
relations between the Cuban flora and that of the Bahamas, 
Florida, and Jamaica; to obtain additional plants and specimens 
or study in connection with the preparation of the annotated list 
of Cuban plants by Mr. Percy Wilson, my administrative assistant ; 
and to obtain more information about the cactuses of Cuba for 
use in the studies of Cactaceae which I am prosecuting in codpera- 
tion with Dr. J. N. Rose, of the United States National Museum. 
