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and four in front abreast. 



Irala. Like a camp. Soil seeraa very porous and spongy. Stataon, 

 did not get name. Wide and smooth road. Cane fields, some of tliem 

 burnt over. Low hills, wide mesas, all grassed over. Mexicans are great 

 lovers of flowers and music. Salix Bonplandiana. More cane ftelds. 

 Elms or like them, also resembles Corylus. Soil very red. 'Grass 3-4 

 feet high. Deep-red flowered bush with big flowers. Reddish wvAer. 

 Railroad equipment good but poorly handled. More grass, tall, much 

 Andropogon. Bombax. Mountains high over itt the north. Red leave-,! 

 tree. Deep barrancas. Bamboo. Solanum bush 8 feet High. Alegunun- 

 ous bush with flat pods 6 inches long. Tall grass. Nuches station. 

 Irrigation ditches. Oak-like bush, a black oak (?). More barranca 200 

 feet deep, all volcanic. Red-flowered bush again. Air getfing Tar mors 

 humid. Tall bamboo grass in flower now. The yellow-flowered t ec ha.s 

 a big ovate or oval fruit 3-4 inches long. Very rugged now, big bridge. 

 Oblong-podded Leguminous «hrub. Much Andropogon. Station, did Ti(»t 

 get name. More 



velvety-red-flowered 



barranca, Erythea, cultivated Washingtonia Sonorae, 

 tree. Good roads. More Erythea or Wa/hin^tonia. 



Cardiospermum. More palms with very slender trunk. Oak^. Kilometer 

 1,052. Much oak brush. Much palm In fl^jwer. Fern-branched Rhani- 

 naceous shrub. Some big trees, ever>'where brush. Station, did not get 

 name. Pectis-like tall herb. Big red-flowered orchid in tree. Big grass 

 or Yucca-like, soft leaves. All forest except here and there a gra?sy pa k. 

 Trees hanging with vines. Very rugged region. Pahns all along, ^ow 



along river, more otjch. Station, did not g^t name, River 20 feet wide. 



Cuscuta on tree. Kilometer 1,020. Just saw a big tree with a palm 

 growing in the center and almost dead. Down by the river, the water is 

 500 feet wide and slow. More grass and trees. Yellow-flowered roniel- 

 like tree more common. Wild oats. Tunnel. The trees that look hkc 

 dates may be coquitas. Erjthea in full flower. Kilometer, 1,013. Palnw 

 everywhere, the chief trees. Grass, few bushes. Now mght and cannot 



see vegetation. , . , t i -n -r 



Acaponeta. Stopped at Sud Pacifico hotel by depot. Low lulls ah 

 around ^nd apparently all wooded. The Pumpkm tree Cn;scent,a_ abta 

 is cultivated here. The fruit is round and green till npe, and 4 mclies 

 diameter. The leaves have winged racMs, and the flowers are near! 

 black and come out from the main trunk of the tree, ^ent ou to^it 

 hill west and got a lot of shrubs. There is a yellow-flowered Bombax tree 



"'Vridav went again to the hill and got a smaller load. X^y/^/ ^f 

 dry. The' bark of the Bombax is soft and the y:f<i J^^. ^""!^'J'^1 J 

 rmw, branches few and long and smooth, gray like the figs ^ ^e ^"^^^ 

 y.llo^v-flowered species has much the same bark but ^f?.f ^^ ^^^^^^„^ 

 more slender. Then there is a clothespin bush, fnut like a clothespin . 



Tree 20 feet' or more high and no leaves now. Then there is a ^y 



vine, leafless now. with enonnous flat and thm P^ds ^, ^^,^£,-"i,^ 



inche.. wide and i-2 mm. thick. Then there is a shr^b 10-15 feet h^h 

 whose branches become vines and twine at the tip; the flowers are bnl 



