the latter part of our trip, but official duties prevented the reali- 

 zation of this part of the program. We also discussed the trop- 

 ical research laboratory at Cinchona, held by the garden under a 

 lease from the Jamaican government, and it is most satisfactory to 

 know that all damages to the buildings there, caused by the 

 earthquake of last January, have been repaired by the government. 

 King's House, the gubernatorial residence, was wrecked by 

 the earthquake to such an extent as to make it uninhabitable. I 

 had learned that Sir Sydney and Lady Olivier had expressed 

 some desire to occupy Cinchona for a time, the delightful and 

 salubrious climate and the surpassingly beautiful mountain 

 scenery of that part of Jamaica making it most attractive, and in- 

 asmuch as we have no students there at present I took great 

 pleasure in requesting them on the part of the garden to use it 



The days August 29 and 30 were thus mainly occupied, 

 though opportunity was taken to observe many interesting plants 

 at Hope Gardens and in the gardens at King's House, and some 

 botanical collecting was done on the hills near Constant Spring. 

 I also found opportunity to read the proofs of my account of 

 " The Sedges of Jamaica," written for the Bulletin of the De- 

 partment of Public Gardens and Plantations and published as a 

 supplement to volume 5 of that journal. This document will 

 also be issued as No. 97 of " Contributions from the New York 

 Botanical Garden." 



The first region selected for exploration was the Santa Cruz 

 Mountains, a range of limestone situated near the southern coast 

 in the parish of St. Elizabeth, running northwest from the coast 

 and reaching altitudes up to 2,580 feet, and the Pedro plains, lying 

 between the mountains and the coast. Malvern, located on top 

 of the range, was made the base of operations. We proceeded 

 there by way of Mandeville, located on the Manchester Moun- 

 tains, taking three days travelling by railway to Williamsfield and 



about Mandeville and on the way to Malvern, which was reached 

 on the afternoon of September 2, and where we were joined in 

 the evening by Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Harris, who had travelled 



