PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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Jan. 250. "Мама, T 
one of these arrive, when I can hire several 
take iiir and ba to Bucaramanga, 
which 4 Perte days' journey distant. 
Left Marta. The road soon begins 
а е Ве 
of the day’s journey, it соп b one 
hilly ridge after another, emer 4 only to des- 
cend again on the other side o Сис, to n — - 
same level we were on when 
the ideo of the narro с 
track in е 
опе оЁ i Me 
a of i — we put up for the 
= and s were — ived. 
Pu med our адар this morning. 
— d not less 2,000 feet 
P 
ravines here, which seem to be pro — places for 
plants. Put up at night in a small “tunda " 
on the roadside. 
an. 30th, Our mules being missing until near 
речки a we did not arrive at Bucarama: 
etio 
me саи and I am enjoying his hospi itality while 
writing this. 
Jan. 31st, Enquiring to-day учаны the Rhatany 
plant was to be found, Mr. L. in me that in 
ow- 
ever, a quantity of the Toe а — house, packed 
bags rea read MM sen 
a 
dis in getting 
ould be rcd to go 
out buying animals, as no ния to 
I went ae accompanied by Mr. L., 
people w mules, but not one 
snide Ро who po Mr. L. says that if I 
could take a whole troop of twenty-five or thirty 
animals, I might, by paying a o rate of hire, 
— авч опе to let me have his animals, but 
pe me ve therefore determi ned. to do w| 
h 
work for a few days ч and then to start wi 
my collections for the 
Thro ugh the strong inte rost of Mr. 1. I have 
exe a saddle-mule for the time I stay here; he 
having in a man ner become ива Be for the 
safe return of m anima 
eb. Ist. Started this morning for the ee 
eagues wen he village of that 
to be common, much 
export. The road 
lay up the m of the К r отео leg -— 
urse of the stream the whole w: 
бењ the village the plant haga. be frequent 
and a league further о 
covered with it. The soil it grows ры is id, ray 
and gravelly in the e , во much so in 
taking up the root the instrument is a 
iron crowbar, e the lower end ; 
into oo being rather 
brittle when fresh. e general height of the 
is about four From but in some places it 
s to gro nger than he I 
рир on patches of the shrub quite six feet in 
height. 
ms 
d many specimens of the plant in 
of the range of mountains to the 
wn. These mountains are and 
they to a height in some parts of u; о 
2,000 feet above the which is said to be 2,500 
feet cuam the sea-level. The ts of - 
аг as plants worthy of cul- 
анон п, as follows:—lst. A very fine species 
of Lisisnthus (No. 95). 
dges 
he flowers are large, in colour on 
rent p m a rosy purple to a е5 rose ; the 
throat of the ug vie is rg гар with dark purple 
and white. The are produced in great 
abundance and are жен» bri The ripe — 
exude an aromatic balsam, and are used by 
ple he 
to to soent ther Моше. I collected 
thi: nd. A number 
m Е 
бы in pairs (general ——X of the н imd 
and are very beautiful, ia ng like those 
ofa Du in we The sepals and petals are 
; the lip a delicate rose. um 
ucaramanga 
4th. Р P 
epiphytal orchid from valley of 
epip i Plants of No. 100, epiphytal orchid 
