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of the cliff was found a climbing milkweed, Metastelma decais- 
neanum Schlechter, and on the top of a nearby hill were found 
the calabash, Crescentia cujete L., and two members of the 
madder family, the tree-like Isertia parviflora Vahl, and the 
trailing Tontanea guianensis Aublet. 
While many of the plants observed were obviously of South 
American affinity, a detailed study of the flora of the island may 
well show other relationships, as is indicated by the occurrence 
here of Tussacia pulchella (Donn) Reichenb., a species from 
Panama and Jamaica, and the fact that Hitchcock? reports very 
few of the grasses of the West Indies occuring also in British 
Guiana. Further study of Trinidad plants will furnish not only 
pleasant botanizing but profitable results as well, particularly 
from a distributional standpoint. 
CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 
* Hitchcock, A. S. Floral aspects of British Guiana. Ann. Rep. Smithsonian 
Inst. 1919: 301. 1921, 
