102 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
going to decay, once the capitol of the peninsula and religious 
center in the days of the padrez, and with a fine old cathedral 
seashore, a few hundred yards of alkaline soil, growing dates which 
thrive best under auch conditions. It seems to have plenty of 
No figs nor Sugarcane. It is calm and still at sunset. Children 
stare at me just as they do at the north. Quite a number of 
ct. 16. It is bright, clear and still. Old cathedral a pic- 
cure of desolation in the midst of a beautiful orchard, all caused 
and got some stuff, very dry er hot, 
ot ett at 2 p.m, ate some petaiyas, Got a Celastracess shrub, 
wii green flowers, the fruit suggests Maytenus, havin d co- 
