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flowers of the Alligator Pear. Mistaking this species for the 

 Cydimon boisduvalii (Guer.) of western Cuba, he did not take 

 many specimens, a fact which he always lamented in after 

 years. He visited, at "San Andres," the last of the pure- 

 blooded aborigines of Cuba, the Rojas family, a race now ex- 

 tinct. Exploring Monte Toro and Monte Libano, two zoologi- 

 cally famous ranges, he found in the latter that extraordinary 

 Urocoptid, Brachypodella brooksiana (Gundl.), which he 

 named in honor of his first host in Guantanamo. Continuing 

 across toward the north coast of Oriente Province as far as 

 "Santa Catalina," and returning through Guantanamo and 

 Caimanera to Santiago de Cuba early in 1859, he started for 

 Baracoa, the home of that most beautiful of land shells, the 

 Helix (Polymita*) picta (Born.) of which nearly 1000 color 

 variations are known, each vying with its neighbor in beauty. 

 Arriving at Baracoa in May of this year, he visited Mata, on 

 the east, there taking the largest of the Cuban land snails, 

 Helix (Polydontes) imperator (Montf.), then very rare in 

 collections, and not now easy to find alive. He climbed that 

 curiously formed height El Yunque, a landmark of all marin- 

 ers who pass along this portion of the Cuban coast, and on the 

 top took the interesting Helix (Polydontes) apollo (Pfr.). 

 While at Baracoa he captured the type of Chlosyne perezi 

 (Gundl.) and visited a curious palm, from the trunk of which 

 protruded ten branches, each with its fronds at the top. In 

 August he began to work his way back toward Havana, along 

 the northern border of the Island passing through Gibara, 

 Nuevitas and Puerto Principe (now Camagiiey), arriving at 

 Havana on the i5th of August, 1859, after an absence of a 

 little over three years, well repaid in genera and species for 

 his hardships. 



The next four years (1860-1864) he spent in determining 

 and putting in order the material collected, sending specimens 

 to the different specialists of Europe and America. About this 

 time it became fashionable among the wealthy of Havana to 

 adorn their drawing-rooms with Natural History specimens. 

 Gundlach was kept busy furnishing these, and thus became 



