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			9 July 1798.
	
		Rec d.  the following plants from Dr.  Andersoni of St. Vincent by the hands of Dr. Wm. Youngii. it appears by the Drs. that were intended 2 boxes & some Vine Slips for His Majesty one box only & the slips of vines have found their way to Kew of which the following plants are alive	Vizt.

No. 34	Gnaphalium alatum			Trinidad
	alpinia altissima
	Xiphidium distichum iii		in good order
     29	Dracontium palmifolium	good order
	Dalberg[ar]ia spinosa	   good order		.2 if [illeg] plants
	Epidendrum ophioglossoides
     37  Lycopodium nudum		alive
     36	Alpinia globiferaiv
     22	a plant like Hymenaea courbarilv	but marked
	Hyrcea Hiraea scandensvi	 this is doubted. 	& the
	following plant is supposed to be true Hiraea scandens
	altho' without a Number.
No. 35 [?]   Hiraea scandens
      32  Bombax carolinoides ? alive but doubted
					Carolinea minor Mss
	Polypodium spinosum	dead
	Dracontium palmifolium	alive
31.   Pitcairnia ramosa	  alive
26    Asplenium sabiliferumvii. from Isle de France	alive	
24    Bauhinia 	spanish main   has not flowered
        Mimosa	palustris
23    Arum hastatum eviii Guianea


i.   Alexander Anderson (1748-1811), Scottish surgeon and botanist, in 1785 he became a    superintendent of the St Vincent botanic Garden and discovered many previously unknown plants.
ii  Possibly William West Young (1776-1847), not a doctor and a man of many pursuits including botany.
iii  No such species is found.
iv  Possibly Alpinia globosa
v   A misspelling of courbarii
vi  The species is not found.
vii The name of the species has no sense. It might possibly be a mistake for salicifolium