New Series.] APRIL, MAY, JUNE, 1897. Vol- IV - 



Parts 4, 5, 6. 



BULLETIN 



BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, JAMAICA. 



EDITED BY 



WILLIAM FAWCETT, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



Director of Public Gardens and Plantations. 



CONTENTS: 



Satin Wood - Page 73 



Pea nut or Pindar-nut - 75 



Oil Tree - 77 



Coneys and Nutmeg tree - - 79 



Notes on recent additions - - 80 



Ren sons for cultivating the soil - 81 



Commercial Fertilizers - - 88 



Coccidse, or Scale insects. — X. - 107 



Note on Lecmium tessellatum - 109 



Ramie - - 110 



Ferns — Synoptical List. XLVI - 112 



Contributions to the Department - 142 



PRIC E-Sixpence. 



A Copy will be supplied free to any Resident %n Jamaica, who will send Name and 

 Address to the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations, Gordon Town P.O. 



KINGSTON, JAMAICA: 

 Government Printing Office, 79 Duke Street* 



1897 



