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brunneo-nigrum lucidissimum _ enantio 1:6-1:7 
longum 1:4-1:5 mm. latum.—Yucata stra Celestun, vee 
12th, 1868, A. Schott, 360 (type in Brit. 
Amaranthus lepturus. Monoicus rae ramosus ad 1 m. al- 
ta. Caulis tenui salbidus glaber subangulatus. Folia media rhom 
boideo-ovalia Spe: obtusa vel retusa cuspidulata basi wi cuneata 
su ned Se (1) 2:2-4:1 dm. longs 6-17 mm. crasse. orum 
masculorum bractesw 2 subulato-lanceolate falcate: patentes sub- 
atiatates glabre insequales virides scarioso-marginate longior 
scariosa gente mene extimum ceteris paullo longius 2 mm 
longum ; stamina 5. Florum femineorum bracteew 2 lanceo lato- 
subulates sutierlotatas fetentos s vel recurvate virides scari i0so- 
interdum (sed extimum sont? r) subacuta mucronulata glabra vel 
infra pilis brevibus perpaucis medio viridia scarioso-marginata 
extimum paullo longius 2-5 mm. longum; styli3 vel interdum 2. 
Utriculus calyce multo brevior levis. Semen subcomplanato-sub- 
globosum brunneo-nigrum lucidum 1:2 mm. longum.—Lower 
ogee aes hills, Magdalena Bay, 1839, Barclay, n. 3094 (type in 
Mus.). 
THREE BARLY JAMAICAN BOTANISTS. 
By A. B. Renpuz, F.R.S. 
In the course of our work on the ‘Flora of Jamaica,’ Mr. 
Fawcett and I have had the opportunity of examining a collection 
of plants made in the island by Dr. Arthur Broughton, a native of 
Bristol and an M.D. of Edinburgh, who went to Jamaica in 1783, 
and died there in 1796. His interest in botany found expression 
in the Enchiridion Step ica a descriptive list of the genera and 
species of British plants (1782), and the nhs Hastensis, a 
Catalogue of the plants cultivated in Mr. East’s Botanic Garden 
in the mountains of Liguanea, in Jamaica (1792; ed. 2, 1794). 
The collection of plants referred to is in four folio volumes, and 
bears the date 1786-90. It was formerly in the City Library at 
Bristol, but is now preserved in the Bristol Museum, and through 
the kindness of the Curator, Mr. H. Pade we have been able to 
examine it. The plants are mounted in the book-form usual in 
those aay but are in no systematic ae they are carefully 
named, and information as to locality is often add 
Dr. Broughton’s bequest included some bound volumes of 
