The very copious collections made by the party during the years 1889 

 and 1890, at Mr. Godman's C03t, were presented by him to the Royal 

 Gardens. There is every reason to suppose that as far as it is practicable 

 under such circumstances they exhaust the actual flora so far as flowering 

 plants and ferns are concerned. But there will be doubtless, as even in 

 our own country, always some additional harvest of species to be 

 obtained by residents in the island who can give their time to a closer 

 investigation of its area. 



Mr. H. Powell, the Curator of the revived Botanic Garden, has done 

 good service by sending additional collections since 1890. 



The flora of the Grenadines previously to the present investigation 

 was practically unknown. 



The following enumeration is a catalogue prepared by the Kew staff 

 of all specimens in the Kew Herbarium professing to be derived 

 from St. Vincent, whether indigenous or naturalised. 



Each island is indicated throughout the list by its initial letter. 



U. Union. 



V. St. Vincent. 



As the duplicate specimens have with Mr. Godman's sanction been 

 .listrii'iited to various herbaria, the numbers attached to the several 

 specimens of each species are cited throughout for convenience of 

 future reference. 



The largest proj>ortion of the plants enumerated were collected by 

 the Smiths. For these no collector's name is given. In the case of 

 other collectors it is added. Synoi 

 the names employed in Grisebach's 

 not now adopted. 



The statistics of the flora and such points of scientific interest as it 

 presents are discussed in a concluding summary. 



As regards the arboreal vegetation of St. Vincent aud the most pro- 

 minent and valuable ti ml » tnoel recenl particulars 

 are given in a Report upon the Forests of St. Vincent by E. D. M. 

 Hooper, of the Indian Forest Department, published by the Colonial 

 Office in 1886. 



A report upon the fruits of the Colony will be found in the Kew 

 Bulletin for 1888 (pp. 187-8). 



The position of the once flourishing but now somewhat decaying 

 Arrow-root industrv i- diseased in the Km- fhilh-tin for 1893 (pp. 

 191-204). 



