Trees of Jost Van Dyke (British Virgin Islands)

Little, Elbert

Sixty-nine tree species are recorded here as native on Jost Van Dyke, one of the British Virgin Islands, and 18 other species noted as introduced. This list, base on my field work and collections on April 11-13, 1967, provides distribution records of species previously known from adjacent islands. It is also a contribution of the U.S.D.A. Forest Service project on forest trees of the Caribbean area under the International Biological Program. No tree records from Jost Van Dyke were cited by Britton and Wilson, Eggers, or Little and Wadsworth. Collections from this island have been needed for distribution records in the forthcoming second volume of the trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A list of the dicotyledons of Tortola has been published recently by D'Arcy. Tortola, the nearest larger island and largest of the British Virgin Islands, is less than 4 miles east and southeast of Jost Van Dyke. Much general information recorded for Tortola, for example, climate, history of cultivation, and floristic affiliations, applies also to nearby Jost Van Dyke.