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exploring trip through the Bahamas. Eleuthera, Cat Island, 
Watling’s Island, Crooked and Fortune islands, and Inagua were 
visited as were also the islands of Jamaica and Grand Cayman. 
The report of the plants collected was published in 1893 by Pro- 
fessor Hitchcock in the Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
The total number of plants there noted from the Bahamas was 380, 
and of these two were described as new. 
ANALYSIS OF THE COLLECTION 
The collection enumerated in the following pages consists of 
542 species (461 exclusive of the cryptogams) to which are to be 
added six varieties and twenty-one cultivated plants. Two of е · 
collection proved indeterminable on acccunt of insufficient material, 
while fifteen could only be determined generically for the same 
reason. The total number of families of flowering plants represented 
is 93, the number of genera, 304. The families most largely repre- 
sented are Leguminosae, with 45 species; Compositae with 34; 
Rubiaceae with 24, and Euphorbiaceae with 21, while Orchidaceae, 
Convolvulaceae and Verbenaceae come next. The genus most 
largely represented is /pomoea, of which we collected thirteen 
species ; eight species of Cassia were found, and six species each of 
Euphorbia, Coccolobis, and Tillandsia, while Passiffora and Eupatorium 
each have five species. Ав will be noticed there is a very large 
proportion of genera to the number of species, in the majority of 
cases a genus being represented by but a single species. 
Of the plants collected a new Chara was described and pub- 
lished by Dr. Т. Е. Allen, ап Anastraphia by Mr. J. M. Green- 
man, of Cambridge, а /acquinia, by Professor Ме? and new species 
of Caesalpinia, Phyllanthus, Reynosia, and Casearia by Professor 
I. Urban, of Berlin in Symbolae Antillanae. In addition new 
species of Hymenocallis, Aletris, Vanilla, Phoradendron, Pithecolo- 
bium, Cassia, Linum, Erythroxylon, Crossopetalum, Rhamnidium 
Helicteres, Xylosma, Terminalia, Heliotropium, Tecoma Се, 
Myrstiphyllum, Anguria, Metastelma, and Eupatorium Же савын 
in this paper, as well as two new genera of palms, Paurotis and 
€ yelospathe. The type specimens are in the Жана of Columbia 
University. Sets are also at Kew, the Royal Botanical Garden at 
Berlin, the Gray herbarium, and Geneva. As far as I can discover 
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