On the Vascular Cryptogamia of the Island 
of St. Vincent. 
BY 
J. G. BAKER ; F.R.S. 
Keeper of the Herbarium , Royal Gardens , Ketv. 
With Plates X, XI. 
H ROUGH the liberality of Mr. F. Ducane Godman, 
JL F.R.S., a very complete collection of the plants of St. 
Vincent has lately been made by Messrs. H. H. & G. W. 
Smith, working in connection with the general committee for 
the biological exploration of the West Indies, appointed by 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Four 
collections have been sent to Kew during 1889 and 1890, of 
which the Vascular Cryptogamia have fallen to my lot to 
work out. The following is a complete enumeration of the 
species, with a description of the novelties. 
The island is situated in about 13 degrees north latitude 
and 61 degrees west longitude. It is eighteen miles long by 
eleven miles broad, with an area of 140 square miles. The 
extinct volcano called the Souffriere rises to a height of 3,700 
feet, and another peak overtops it by 300 feet. The whole 
flora of the island is strictly tropical, and the general vegeta- 
tion is luxuriant and perhaps more diversified than in any of 
the chain of islands from Tobago to Antigua, unless it be in 
Dominica. 
t Annals of Botany, Vol. V. No. XVIII. April, 1891. ] 
