FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 127 



of the Bahama Islands, by Gardiner, Brace, and Dolley, which was 

 published by Dr. Dolley in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia in 1889. This list, however, is not always 

 clear as to which are native and which cultivated species, and in the 

 majority of cases the place of collection is not given. A small collection 

 of plants made by a Mr. Cooper were presumably sent to Dr. Torrey 

 at Columbia University, as they form a part of the Torrey herbarium. 

 With very few exceptions all the above collections were made on the 

 island of New Providence. 



In 1887 a grant was made by the British Association, for the inves- 

 tigation of the Bahaman flora, and the Danish botanist, Baron Eggers, 

 undertook the work. He spent from November, 1887, to April, 1888, 

 in the islands and brought back 314 species. A few were collected on 

 Fortune Island and Long Island, but the great majority were from New 

 Providence. Professor T. H. Herrick, of Johns Hopkins, visited Abaco 

 in 1886 and collected a small number of plants noted in the Johns 

 Hopkins Univ. Circ. 6, 46. During the winter of 1 890-1 891 Professor 

 Albert S. Hitchcock, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, accompanied 

 a party of naturalists, headed by Dr. J. T. Rothrock, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, on an exploring trip through the Bahamas. Eleu- 

 thera. Cat Island, Watling's Island, Crooked and Fortune islands, and 

 Inagua were visited, as were also the islands of Jamaica and Grand 

 Cayman. The report of the plants collected was published in 1893 by 

 Professor Hitchcock in the Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 

 The total number of plants there noted from the Bahamas was 380, 

 and of these two were described as new. 



Analysis of the Collection, 



The collection enumerated in the following pages consists of 542 

 species (461 exclusive of the cryptogams) to which are to be added six 

 varieties and twenty-one cultivated plants. Two of the collection 

 proved indeterminable on account of insufiicient material, while fifteen 

 could only be determined generically for the same reason. The total 

 number of families of flowering plants represented is 93, the number of 

 genera 304. The families most largely represented are Leguminosae, 

 with 45 species ; Compositae, with 34; Rubiaceae, with 24, and Euphor- 

 biacege, with 21; while Orchidaceae, Convolvulace^, and Verbenaceae 



