Summary. 



The foregoing enumeration includes all the plants collected by Mr. 

 Herbert H. Smith an. I his assistant, Mr. George \V. Smith, whether indi- 

 genous or naturalised. It also contains 179 flowering plants and 24 

 ferns not collected by them, though tlicre arc specimens preserved in the 

 Kew Herbarium on sheets mostly marked " St. Vincent, Guilding," in 

 the handwriting of the late Sir William Hooker. There are also a few 

 sent from the same island by Alexander Anderson and others. As to 

 iy of those sent by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding there can 

 he little doubt from what i- actual!}' known of tl 



traveller has collected 

 them in the island, that the specimens were taken from plants culti- 

 vated in the botanic gard n. or, in -omc c - - \x rhaps, codec d in the 

 ighbourinii islands. A few of them may exist locally or may have 

 ousted, -];. " were either 



overlooked by Messrs. Smith or they may have disappeared since 

 pudding's time. There is yet another category of plants inserted on 

 nie authority ot the earlier collectors, namely, such as have never been 

 found elsewhere and not again in the island. Among these are Spet&kM 

 perforata, Juss. (Malpighiaceae), and Cyathea tenera, Hook. (Filices). 

 The former is represented in the K eimens pre- 



-ented by Guilding, and .) u-ieu [.MonoLf Malpig.. p. 7o) states that 

 there was a specimen in Delessert's herbarium from St. Vincent, col- 

 lected by Caley, which probably belonged to f he same species. This tree- 

 fern is recorded by Grisebach (Fl. Brit. II'. Dal. Tsd.s., p. 704) from 

 ."out Mr. ,r. G. Baker {Annals of Botany, v., 

 ''• Gl) men cimen known is an imperfect one 



from St. Vincent, collected by Caley. 



The total number of .species of flowering plants collected in St. 

 uin-erri and the four adjacent 'slots, Boquia, Cannouan, Mustiqiie, 

 md U'nion. including naturalised plants and those inserted on the 

 he carlv collfctors. is about i, ].-,(). Gf these Mr. Smith 

 ■ode, led j)7 7. whereof at least Gil:. i-H. leaving 



*16 indigenous species, belonging to 490 genera and 109 natural orders. 

 The number of species oF t,rl in the smali islands 



was, respectively: Bequia, 37o ; Mustique, 160; Union, 49; and 

 Cannouan, 30. With regard to the of the indi- 



genous^ plants, the principal points are the wide geographical range of 

 the majority and the smallness of the endemic element, conditions that 

 obtain throughout the whole chain of islands from Tobago to the Virgin 

 group, which are in striking contrast to the proportions of the endemic ele- 

 tt and Jamaica. There is no endemic genus in St. Vincent, 

 but the following species have hitherto not been found elsewhere : — 

 v/, Griseb. 

 ■ ■■ if a. .Juss Main.alia ret rojl, rtt. Mnell. Arg. 



Mchvsiiia lit rln rtii. Rolfr. ('ohiinnca speciom, Presl. 



