HISTORICAL 



CHAPTER I 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



The following persons have given informations about the 

 Flora of the Dutch West Indian Islands. Liter. Urban Symbolae An- 

 tillanae Vol. I and Vol. III. 



St. Eustatius. 



J. B. Labat, betioeen 1694 and 1705. 



J. B. Ldbat in his : Nouveau voy;i.ge aux isles de I'Amerique .... 

 Editio 1724. La Haye, does not give any compendium of the 

 vegetation of the Dutch Antilles. 



N. J. Jacquin between 1755 and 1757. 



N. J. Jacquin in his: Selectarum stirpium americanum historia, in 



qua ad Linnaeanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistuntur 



plantae illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo aliisque 



et in vicinae Continente parte observavit rariores; adjectis iconi- 



bus in solo natali delineastis. Vindobonae 1763, mentions only 6 



plants found in St. Eustatius, of which I point out only those 



quoted by Grisebach in his : Systematische Untersuchungen liber 



die Vegetation der Karaiben, insbesondere der Insel Guadeloupe: 



Jiasticia sessilis. 



Justitia eustachyana. (Beloperone eustachiana Benth.). 



Heliotropium gnaphaloides. (Tournefortia gnaphalodes R. Br.). 



Coccoloba nivea. 



Cactus triangularis. (Cereus triangularis Haw.). 



(Hel-b. Banks. Brit. Mus. London; Herb. Willd. Berlin). 



F. Masson 1780. 



I only saw Masson mentioned by 0. Smarts in his: Flora Indiae 



occidentalis, concerning Microtea debilis. 



(Brit. Mus. London). 



