THE CINCHONA BOTANICAL STATION 



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living and sleeping accommodations for eight or ten workers. There are 

 two laboratories, each well lighted on two or three sides, that will ac- 

 commodate the same number of workers, with tables, shelving, some 

 simple glassware and a supply of plant dryers. There are two green- 

 houses that can be used for keeping experimental material under con- 

 stant conditions, and which incidentally collect water for two large 

 cisterns that supply the laboratories and house. The clear, absolutely 

 pure water for drinking and cooking is brought on the head of a native 

 carrier from the springs of the Clyde River, 500 feet below Cinchona. 

 The finely terraced garden about the house and laboratories is main- 

 tained in excellent condition. Despite the ravages of the hurricane of 

 1903, it still contains numerous fine specimens of tropical, subtropical 

 and temperate-zone shrubs and trees. There are the native tree ferns, 

 junipers, Po do carpus, orchids, bromeliads and a great Datura with 



Two Laboratories. Stables in the background. 



corollas a foot long, that have been transplanted from the mountains 

 behind Cinchona. There are fine examples of many Himalayan and 

 Cape of Good Hope species. Large trees are here of Cryptomeria, 

 Cupressus Lawsoniana, Pinus Massonianu, and two species of Podo- 

 carpus. The genera Grevillea, Hakea, Callistemon, Gordonia, Pitto- 

 sporum and the beautiful Acacia are represented by from one to several 

 species each. There are splendid specimens or clumps of each of a dozen 

 species of Eucalyptus. Eight or ten species of subtropical palms are 

 found here, together with Agaves, Yuccas, New Zealand flax with leaves 



