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t20 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO, U 



Kant-orange, linear, in masses on one side of a rachis, and can be seen 

 tor miles Eark is smooth and 'gray, trunks 6 inches diameter. Did not 



T* V^'^' Ir *^ 2"/ ^-cornered Cereus, also Cereus Pringlei, and the 

 Hat OpuMia. No wild pahns here so far. Red Agave is common. Saw 

 one Lygodium fern not in fruit. There is a Ludwigia with evanescent 

 Howers, petals an inch long and yellow. Many vines here. Many thorny 

 i-lf I. , • .^° catsclaw. Manzanillo Mimosa common and with the 

 mle black ants m the enlarged stipules, whose bite stings for a long 



about 



pods 4 inches long by 1.5 inches wide and an inch thick and very heavy. 

 llZr^ ^ P^thecollobium. There is very much grass here, but not in 

 condUjon tq study or collect. Hills mostly covered by brush 20 feet high. 

 Some large cane fields. River near by on the south. I should fudge that 

 .mZT I^ ^^ ^^?"* ^^"^^^^ off to the east and 2.000-3,000; feet 

 f!ei\n?\^^^^''''^^u^'''''''^ ^^* ^™^^- Air feels quite moist but it 

 iut^^no ^*-"'^"' ^^' ^'^ '' *" "^"^^ ^^-^^^^^ o^e There are some 



autos, no carriages seeit 



fa Lner^. ''"""i ^ *^' °J^ *^™' ^Sax mill. Here they have an old 

 fashioned sugar crusher run by steam, the rollers horizontal, and below 

 them a cement tank 2 feet square into which the sap falls Then a force 



S? f'^I^Jj ^^ feet to some >il^s which are w^ffired Mow Each 



sti'mm^rc Tk * *v "o /"id tHc sap is skimmed by mosquito-netting 



roT va?; 4 f . ""^ -'^ ^^'1^'' '^^ '^' '^P ^^ ^^^ ^^td two drcular cast- 

 ;H^n,.l\l;!''f ]^^de and again boiled do^vn to sugar bubbles and 



Then when it will 



wooden 



wooden slabs with 



yi inches deep. The 



Icent mnJcf .a^-fu * ^ % ^, " ^'*/2 iiicnes aeep. me noies are 



cooled the slabs are carried to vats and 



wooden 



cones droD onr tC JV i "^'"^ "^^^^^ mallets, and the sugar 



rones .recalled ? t^' T *'^ '"^'"^^ ^"'^ "^^^ again. The sujar 

 r:L;rboutlnn^^^^^ -ates weeing 100 ,K>ufds 



;;nt^eated. ^d Is .the ^J a^^i^of cJ^erT^liLXt^q itfa ^ 



rt '»*^'^ lu uic orusn, ihe river hprp ic oV./^.,4 oaa r^-i. _'j-. i 



Hows slowly. 



about 





lau'rh at vfMi if vn,. K V »^ ^ ^^ ^" ^^^ w^^^^ cornered, and then 



offid.lf k?<,Ll7?^ fh "^^ ?r' '"^ *^* *^^^e are no honest publit 

 ofticals. He saj-s it is a great change since the revolution in that respect 



