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we found a Zamia (Z. Ottonis?), the mountain palm (Gaussia) 
in fruit, and numerous orchids, hohenbergias, tillandsias, and 
other epiphytes. ‘The most conspicuous plant of this mountain 
vegetation was the rather large tree (Bombax emarginatunt), 
known locally as the ceibon, with a bright green, tapering trunk. 
All specimens of this tree growing in accessible places had been 
destroyed in the interests of the charcoal industry, but we man- 
aged to secure specimens of the bark, leaves, and tite | he 
bark has a remarkable development of bast, and is used for cords 
to tie up bales of tobacco for shipment. 
Fic. 4. Catesbaea spinosa in fruit. North shore of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 
west of Esperanza. 
From San Vicente we drove over the American-built calzada, 
or stone road, to Esperanza on the north coast. Here there was 
little that was new, though some beautiful specimens Ole wine 
shrub, Catesbaea spinosa, loaded with ripe fruit, were found and 
photographed, and herbarium and museum material collected. 
On September 17 we returned to Pinar del Rio, and on the 
