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Phytogeographical. 



I have enumerated in the Systematic Part 806 species; 132 of 

 these are cultivated, and as will be seen from the list before 

 given there are 674 wild plants, 166 of these are West Indian 

 plants, of which 114 only are known on the Antilles. Another 

 34 are distributed in the Antilles and the other Atlantic Islands, 

 whereas 18 are to be found both in the Antilles, the other 

 Atlantic Islands and Southern Florida. From the 608 plants 

 that are not restricted to the West Indies, there are 301 that 

 occur on the Continent of America, whereas another 207 are 

 to be found as well in the Continent of America as in the 

 Old world. 



From the plants enumerated in the Systematic Part there are 

 550 named in Grisebach: Flora of British "West Indian Islands. 

 I could make out by what I found in ffnse&ac/i : Die geographische 

 Verbreitung der Pflanzen West Indiens, that from these 550 

 plants there are about 180 indigenous in the Antilles and the 

 Bahamas. 



When the results given by Grisebach in 1865 had not been 

 changed by more recent investigations on the Flora of the 

 West Indian Islands than the number of indigenous plants I 



