100. 











; host of spea GA Innumerable Cacti and | Euphorbiæ covered with fruits | or 
owers, diffe: of their ribs, 
and the ignated of their spicule, give variety to the scene. At every 

By the side of every rivulet rise large clusters 
mbusa arundinacea), without a doubt the most 
Dur spy of our ni plagis. Nothing can exceed the beauty of this 
| t grass, which s to the height of 60 or 80 feet, waving 
its light d graceful foliage at aed breath of the winds. The Cycas 
(€. revoluta a), and several lred plants, so valuable for its nu- 
tritious fecula, are scattered Souk attaining their greatest height in 
spo ots where nothing i is M toi impede their free development.* 
“St. Vincent’s, December 14, 1824. 

e botanic garden establishment at St. Vincent was removed to 
ia ‘Trinidad 1 in ‘May 1823. 
_ After this time the fortunes of the garden vare declined. Tt was 
found, however, that dades could prevent from flourishing the 
du Tow bau ; 3 


or Administrator appointed and e id own gardener, who was 
«sal only a labouring man. Thus knowledge of the value cx 
rari the trees was lost and intervals of neglect were frequent. - 
d a the: discontinuance of the vote for the upkeep of 1 
n of about 2,0007. was voted to build a or ty ake 
Govern, by € to em cottage formerly c occupied uperi: 
tendent. reside: was completed, and is. ae fatter, being 
“pebailt 3 in 1886] oc caper by the chief executive officer of the nape 
.. The establishment of the botanical station was begun, as already men- 
eT in May 1890. The progress made up to December of reign year | 
A he station was visited, in the course of his mission in the West ae 


Mss by the Assistant Director of Kew, is given in the Kew Bulletin, 
May and dum 1891, pp. 140-145. Since that time the suggestions 
red to overnment for laying out the garden and for devoting 


it “tothe dis ischarge of the special functions assigned to it in developing ge 
* the reso eres of the. island ” have. been steadily and intelligently os 

The botani [ cal station is nüder the he personal direction of the ‘Adminie- r 
OT, omn dera i M.G., who takes the deepest interest in its - 
are. — Success. whieh has Erud characterised. th 








Y [DCUM to this account is an mne ae ET of plants in His 
M a in the island of St. Vincent, ‘September. 24, ies P oor list 
ineludes about 1,380 plants, many of them indigenous to the island. f the intro. 
Fiama oo no still exist either at St St. Vincent or in e BRUM Ex 





