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subject before his departure to South Africa. 
: I am, &e. 
W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., (Signed) Ferb, vos Mv£rrzn. 
C.M.G., F.R.S., &c. 
CXXXIL—BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF CUBA. - 
The well-known botanist, Baron Eggers, formerly Commandant in 
the Danish Colony.of St. Thomas, has for some time devoted himself to 
the botanical exploration of the West Indian islands. He has made 
important collections in San Domingo and the Bahamas, the flora of 
which is still most imperfectly investigated. The following letter gives 
some interesting particulars of his work in Cuba. 
The Bulletin for December 1887 contained an aceount (with a 
figure) of the tree producing Sabicu wood (Lysiloma Sabicu), formerly 
believed to be peculiar to Cuba, but now known to be identical with the 
Horse-flesh Mahogany of the Bahamas. 
Baron H. Eacers to Roya, Garpens, Kew. | 
Frederiksborg, Denmark, 
DEAR Sir, July 8, 1889. 
AVING now returned from my voyage to Eastern Cuba, I am 
at present engaged in arranging my collections for distribution; among 
others the most complete set for the Kew Herbarium aecording to your 
wis 
The mountains here are only of moderate height, between 1,500- 
2,500 feet, some few up to 3,000 feet, formed chiefly of limestone, and 
ten years’ insurrection, which terminated in 1878, so that the country 
in all those places has rela again into a wilderness. «There are a 
number of small streams but no large rivers and no lakes or swamps. 
Of interesting plants that I have collected, I may name a grea 
number of ferns, among which there are many I had not met with yet, 
neither in San Doniingo nor the other islands. 
recognised in the forest, The wood is utilised for timber and also 
RUE, The name of the tree in Eastern Cuba is not Sabicu but 
