grasses and dry-loving ferns. The characteristic fern of such localities. 



In the lowlands, in valleys, and on easy slopes, the original vegeta- 

 tion has been for the most part cleared for the cultivation of sugar- 

 cane, arrowroot, and other plants. On rocky cliffs are found numerous 

 liushcs and tre,s of Munted growth, some of' them overhanging th_ sea. 

 With these are an A^are and Bromeliacece. 



•lis? 



ricrs in the ti 



/opics The 



Mangrove tree' 



; are 01 



iiy sparii 



nviv dis- 



::;:. 



: S£Iu 



MaCchineel 



tree 'iir.p^ma, 



u Mi, 



;i : t 



im'uhu-lv 















pere i by 





N.E. trade w 





nine months of 





ear. Du 











and October, th 



















;t. Hurr 









re. St. Vim 







. 



siauusoi 



the 



West Indies. 



Tile slope o 

























1 



!l l<90the A* 





;or of the Koyal 







St. Vin- 





f durincr a ten 







lie W. 



-t Indie-. 



made at 



Hie 



instance of , 



he Seeretary 



of State' His 



report 





- 



Botanic Garden (founded 17<S"> !, certainly in the West Indies, and 

 perhaps in any tropical pari of the world. An account e 

 is given in the Kt/r Ihtlltli,. for 1^-92. pp. 92-100. It lingered on with 

 a precarious existence till the end of the first quarter of the present 



The scient 



of the flora of St. Vincent was limited to the 



IJritHi West India Idand- 



enumerated in Grisebaeh's " Plora of the 



" (18(54). He relied upon a collection made 



by the Rev. Landsdown € 



Udlding preserved in the Kew Herbarium. 















by Alexander Anderson, th 



e second Superintendent of the old Botanic 



Garden, of whom some pa 





1892 (pp. 94-5). also by 



George Caley, one of Anderson's successors 



(K. B: I. c. p. 97). 





These data supplied at ti 



rst a very imperfect idea of the total flora. 





lesirable to take advantage of any opportunity 



for completing t. 



determined to send a zoological collector to St. Vincent. Mr. H. H. 

 Smith, a native of the United States, and an expert of known skill and 

 experience, was engaged. lie was accompanied by his wife, and Mr. 



:u after a vint to Kew to undertake the task. ( hi arriving 

 at St. Vine. . as assistant in botai 



Mr. G. W. Smith (now Curator of the Botanical Garden, Grenada), a 

 native of the Windward Islands. 



