buk the ip is purplish, not one red. I enclose ‘flowers ae or the 
present, e if = like I will send some of the living plants, as well as 
dried mens.* From whai I saw of the interior the soil appeared to 
fortied: by the disintegration of ose this red clay and the lime- 
stone rock being of the same chara is found to such an extent in 
maica. Wherever, therefore, it is of any depth it is suitable for 
cultivation. Mangoes grow well, but they are said not to be so good 
as some of the Jamaica fruit. Oranges, both sweet and bitter, and a 
few lemons are produced, and great quantities of limes are exported 
jekled. Yams, cocoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, pine Te melons, 
sugar canes, bananas, guinea grass all grow well. I took a 
ir dert suckers with me, which they were glad to have. The sugar 
ced poor, but they said that it was due to long-eontinued 
-and that canes grow sometimes from 12 to 15 feet in height, 
ogwood, fustic mahogany, and Hard Wood timbers. K alici. would appear 
to prove that the island is something more than a mere coral reef, The 
. people are excellent shipbuilders, and use their native mahogany and 
other hard timbers in the construction of schooners up to 50 tons, but 
planking is now at least imported from the States. These hard- 
wooded. trees grow on the north side, but as it was doubtful whether I 
could go and return in one day, ad to abandon a projected visit. I 
was sed ER also, not to see the cultivation there, as I heard that the soil 
ined, tl crop was not a RUE iou 
ge robably the first ipt to grow coffee in these islands, and 
I think that the ere pos piratii? The pis and the coco plum 
oo wild, as in 
v little Cayir Abergi is mahogany, but no cedar AR Cedrela odorata) 
n Ca ayman Brac there is plenty of cedar and scarcely any mahogany, 
| Cayman there i is no logwood nor fustic ; at pef I was told so 
bita I met with none. On Cayman Brac I found 
decry re 
s limestone, Podrias into io hows dn Re 
best y dieu and ier un Wherever sufficient r 
otl ual “g ground provisions,” 
man. 
sease in the cocos-nbt palms ied ome- 
, and spread throughout the whole island, 
^s die while they are quite young, and sometimes a crop is produced 
From an examination of these flowers at Kew, it appears that the Sekondarya 
Thomsoniana, Reich. f., Gard. Chron., 3rd Ser., vol. ii., p. 38 [188 "The | 
of Professor Reichehbach's Pags - e erac Me Mari nu m 
new species of Dendrophylax, e Jamaica Dendrophylax 
) funalis, Grisebaeh. Flor. Brit. W. Datis pP. «m, but "be ‘lower i is ded 2 
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