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the old fruits of last year, but no flowers could be had, ar 

 visit to the locality at another time of year, presumably in J 

 will be necessary to obtain them. We prepared a large nurr 

 of herbarium specimens, cut down a tree for wood specimi 

 and pulled up seedlings, which were abundant, for growing 

 Hope Gardens and at the Bronx. Our thanks are gra 

 tendered to A. E. Harrison, B. A., Head Master of the Potsdam 

 School, and Mrs. Harrison for their aid and hospitality while ex- 

 ploring this woodland, which is fortunately the property of this 

 well-known school, ensuring the preservation of the Peltostigma; 

 also to Miss C. Gertrude Pearman who aided in the collecting of 



Lovers' Leap, already mentioned as a precipice at the coastal 

 end of the Santa Cruz Mountains, is on the Yardley Chase estate, 

 the property of Mr. W. Panton Forbes. The rock cliffs support 



there and in the vicinity. One of my principal objects in explor- 

 ing the dry south side of Jamaica was to study the r 



obtain additi 

 of the large species, the Jar 



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the cliffs at 1,600 feet altitude. We had not previously observed 

 it growing at more than 200 or 300 feet altitude above the sea, 

 and I think this must be the greatest elevation known for any 

 plants of this genus in the West Indies. Pedro Bay, situated 

 across the Pedro Plains south of the Santa Cruz mountains, was 

 described to us as a cactus region and three days were devoted 

 to collecting there and in the vicinity ; this work was made con- 

 venient and comfortable by the kindness of Mr. W. Panton 

 Forbes who gave us the use of his cottage on the shore. This 



forming extensive groves, though we found no different species 

 from those growing along the coast near Kingston, though many 

 other plants were of much interest, notably the rare wand- like 

 shrub Lasiocroton macrophyllus of the Spurge Family, which grew 

 in honeycombed limestone. We thought that we might find here 

 the little yellow-flowered cactus Mamillaria simplex, of special 



