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by rail to Balaclava. The climate at both Man 

 vern is delightful, the roads excellent and the 

 good ; both are favorite resorts, both by Jamaic; 

 ists. The Manchester Mountains and Santa Cri 

 separated by a low wide and hot valley ; the 



infolding. Several , 

 1 interest. The vege 



. of 



of the 



of the Santa Cruz Mountains was studied at points all along from 

 Lovers' Leap, a sheer cliff of 1,600 feet on the coast, to the inland 

 end of the range, carriages being freely used in moving from one 

 good collecting ground to another. Several tracts of woodland, 



specimens of many rare trees and shrubs. The special object of 

 search on these mountains was the small tree Peltostigma ptcle- 

 oides of the Rue Family. This apparently extremely local spe- 

 cies was obtained here in 1843 or 1844 by William Purdie, a 

 collector sent to Jamaica from the Royal Gardens at Kew, Eng- 

 land, and not since seen in Jamaica by botanists ; specimens of it 

 are extremely rare, and were much needed in connection with 

 the studies of Rutaceae by Mr. Percy Wilson for publication in the 

 " North America Flora." We sought this tree for six days, ex- 

 amining a large area of the mountains, and were finally rewarded 

 by finding it in considerable quantity on the southern side of a 

 single wooded hill at Potsdam, nearly or quite at the summit 

 of the mountain range. Our delight can be imagined, and the 

 luck was quite equally divided, because while Mr. Harris was 

 gloating over the prize near one end of the hill and endeavoring 



rejoic 



e the 



: the other, the two colonies being perhaps half a 

 nile apart, though we subsequently found that they were irregu- 

 arly connected. The tree was in young fruit and bore some ol 



