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cool and comfortable climate. Wooded hills afford good collect- 

 ing, and even the roadsides yield interesting species of orchids, 

 bromeliads, mistletoes, and ferns. 



But our destination was the Santa Cruz Mountains, where Purdie 

 collected in 1843-44, in order to search for several long-lost 

 species, so we secured a driver and carriage at Mandeville and 

 the following afternoon reached Malvern Hill, where we were 

 joined by Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Harris, whose kind assistance did 

 much to make our trip successful. There is a land-mark on Mal- 

 vern Hill, a palm eighty feet high, Sabal nmbraaiiifera, with 

 swallows darting around its crown of leaves and epiphytes growing 

 on its trunk. All around are pimento trees, the berries of which 

 were ripe, and the fragrance of allspice, drying on the barbecues, 

 scented the air. We spent ten days here very comfortably, 

 making trips both north and south along the ridge at elevations of 

 2,100-2,700 feet. At Potsdam there is a large school for boys 

 with a private bit of natural woodland, where was found a very 

 rare tree, Peltostigma ptelioides, and the star-shaped seedlings of 

 one of the mistletoes, probably Psittacanthus polyceps. At Stan- 

 more Hill was found another rare tree, seventy-two feet high, 

 Spathelia glabrescens, recalling the " Pride of the Valley, " 6". 

 simplex, which we had seen last year for the first time near Gordon 

 Town. The stem in both species is slender and unbranched, with 

 a crown of long pinnate leaves and a large panicle of brilliant 

 pink flowers at the summit. One trip was made to the south- 

 eastern end of the ridge at Yardley Chase, where there is a mag- 

 nificent view of the ocean from an elevation of 1,600 feet, at 

 one point known as " Lover's Leap. " The proprietor, Mr. Pan- 

 ton Forbes, offered us the use of his seaside cottage at Great 

 Pedro Bay, where Dr. Britton and Mr. Harris camped out one 

 night in a search for the long-lost cactus, Maviillm'ia simplex. 

 Plenty of the Turk's-cap and several tall branching .species of 

 Ceretis and Pilocerciis as well as Opuntia were found, making a 

 weird growth among the logwoods back of the sand dunes. 



Leaving Malvern Hill for Black River, we descended to the 

 sea-coast again and trips were made to the " honey-comb rocks " 

 at Longacre and Luana Points in search of another palm with 



