tropical down-pour of rain, which finally drove us to shelter ir 

 hut three or four miles from the summit where a fire and h 

 coffee soon made everybody cheerful, and the return to Cincho 

 was made without incident and the collections safely house 

 John Crow Peak, a much better known mountain of 6,000 fe 

 ■altitude, was also visited, and extensive collections made the 

 and at lower altitudes. 



The buildings and grounds at Cinchona, leased by the Gardi 

 from the Jamaican government in 1903, for use as a subtropic 

 station and laboratory have been repeatedly described ; I h; 

 not visited them before, however, and was naturally much infe 

 ested in examining the establishment, which is all that is nece 

 sary for the purposes ; the buildings have been kept in rep; 

 and the grounds in good order by the Jamaican governmer 

 Professor Underwood will present to you a detailed report on tl 

 work hitherto accomplished by students at Cinchona, togeth 

 with considerations relative to the future of the station. A vi 

 of about three days was made to Hollymount, near Mou 

 Diablo in the central part of the island, where collections we 

 made, and, under the guidance of Mr. Harris, I was able to stuc 

 and collect at several points in the vicinity of Kingston, in tl 

 part of the island which has the least rainfall, and where ca< 

 abound. Through his collections and my own we have now s 

 cured living specimens of all the cacti known to grow in Jamaic 

 except one small and little known species ; this is a Mamillan 

 accredited to Jamaica by Linnaeus, but not found there in mat 

 years ; it is especially interesting as the type of the genus Mar 

 illaria, mostly globose plants, so rich in species in Mexico and 

 the arid portions of Arizona and New Mexico : I greatly desin 

 to rediscover it, having found the related species Mamillar 

 nivosa on Culebra Island, Porto Rico, last spring, and hope th 

 the Jamaica botanists may yet run across it. The largest Jamai< 

 cactus is the plant known as Cerens Swartzii. 



The Jamaica palms were also made a subject of special stud 

 and I was fortunate in being able to see nearly all the kin. 

 known and to collect herbarium specimens ; seeds and youi 

 plants of several of them were also obtained ; the most remar 



