A Jamaica Drift-Fruit

Abstract

IN 1884, I made a collection of drift-seeds and seedvessels washed ashore on the spit of land inclosing Kingston Harbour, Jamaica, called the Palisadoes. The collection was sent to Kew, and it was utilized by Mr. Hemsley in the appendix to the “Botany of the Challenger Expedition,”vol. i. pp. 277-304, when discussing the oceanic dispersal of plants. In the collection there was a fruit I had not seen before, and which was equally new to Mr. Hemsley and the other officers at Kew. There were several specimens of this fruit obtained, and these were afterwards placed in the Kew Museums amongst other drift-fruit, to wait until sufficient material was forthcoming to lead to their identification.