Islands, and eight others 

 lach {Die Geogr. Verbr. di 

 that 2,000 species, or nearly half I 



Southern Florida. Grisebach {Die Geogr. Verbr. der PH. 



~ of the 

 Indian -prries he had < 



the island*; but, although he estimated the : 

 species at 849, and i ' ' 

 species for the whole 



than half. For the eastern chain of islands it 

 t of about 850 of the St. Vincent plants are also 

 and most of them widely dispersed there, but they 

 in the Old World or Polynesia. Further, 29 species are 

 to Africa, and 133 are more or less generally spread in the 

 Returning to the rarest species of those not restricted to St. 

 it is interesting to note that they include species at present 

 only known to inhabit St. Vincent and Trinidad, for example : Broicnea 

 tpu-iosa, Combretum eriopetalnm, Coiiroupita antillana, Aspidosperma 

 v,vv/////V/\ ',/,', Snhhuai h/r.'mn and Pilea ovalis ; to St. Vincent and 

 Jamaica: Yoijr'ut tcm-lla, S,,la,, inn /v.-' n>J'r<tc//nn, and 77/7, 

 pressa ; to St. Vincent and Cuba: Triumfetta grossui: 

 Erithalis august i 'folia, and Eupatorium ossceanum ; St. Vincent and 

 St. Lucia : Henriettella trifiora ; St. Vincent and Dominica : Begonia 

 dominicalis&iid Stelis scabrida ; St. Vincent and Martinique : Begonia 

 martinicensis and Pleurothallis floribunda, and St. Vincent and Hayti : 

 h'rbifrs rircinalis. Many apparently similar peculiarities in distribution 

 might be given ; but they do not possess mucl 

 thorough investigation might invalidate them, 

 we can accept them as facts, they a 



The predominating genera i 

 Cassia 

 Psychotria 



SoUinum - 

 Piper 

 Peperomia 

 Epidendrum 

 Paspalum - 



Nevertheless, so 

 in relation 



Asplenium 

 Nephrodium 

 Poli/podium 

 Acrostichum 

 The twelve predominating r 



