JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



RECENT EXPLORATIONS IN JAMAICA. 

 To the Scientific Directors, 



Gentlemen : — By permission of Mr. D. O. Mills, President of 

 the Board of Managers of the Garden, I devoted the period be- 

 tween August 25 and October 1 to botanical exploration in 

 the island of Jamaica, taking advantage of the kind invitation of 

 the Hon. William Fawcett, Director of the Public Gardens and 

 Plantations, to visit the island. I was accompanied by Mrs. 

 Britton, by Professor L. M. Underwood, Chairman of the Scien- 

 tific Directors of the Garden, and by Miss Delia W. Marble. 

 Professor Alexander W. Evans of Yale University and his assist- 

 ant, Mr. Nichols, were with us part of the time. 



Although much is known of the flora of Jamaica, considerable 

 areas of the island have been only imperfectly explored, and some 

 of the regions accessible only with difficulty and by the expen- 

 diture of much time, have not yet been visited by botanists. 

 One object of the expedition was to determine upon the most 

 practicable plans for reaching these unexplored regions, the most 

 noteworthy of which are the so-called Cockpit Country, in the 

 west central part of the island, and the John Crow mountains at 

 the extreme eastern end. 



We spent a week in the eastern edge of the Cockpit Country, 

 centering at Troy and at Balaclava, under the guidance of Mr. 

 William Harris, Superintendent of Public Gardens and Planta- 

 tions of Jamaica, who had previously made several trips to this 



