Vol. 34 : No. 3 
BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
MARCH, 1907 
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Costa Rican orchids — | 
GEORGE VALENTINE NASH 
(WITH PLATES 7 AND 8) 
In the months of April and May, 1906, Mr. William R. 
Maxon, of the U. S. National Museum, during a furlough from 
that institution, made, in the interests of the New York Botanical 
Garden, an exploration of portions of Costa Rica. Much atten- 
tion was given to the collection of living plants, especially in the 
families Cactaceae, Orchidaceae, and Bromeliaceae, which furnished 
many specimens of great interest. The material was carefully 
collected and excellently packed, so that little harm came to it 
during the long journey, and it arrived in fine condition. 
The orchids were especially well represented. Of many of 
these no herbarium material was secured, as at the time of col- 
lection they were not in flower. A number of these have now 
come into flower and others will undoubtedly do so, and it is the 
object of this and succeeding articles to report upon them. 
Mr. Maxon gave, in the form of a report to the Director-in- 
chief of the Garden, an account of his explorations and many of 
‘the places visited by him, in the Journal of the New York Botan- 
ical Garden for August, 1906. As this may be inaccessible to 
‘many, the locations of some of the places referred to, which do 
ot appear in the atlases ordinarily at hand, are given here, extracted 
in the main from Mr. Maxon’s published account. : 
- The country was entered at Port Limon, the eastern terminus: 
of the Northern Railway of Costa Rica, which runs in a general 
westerly direction through the low lands of Siquirres, and then 
~The BULLETIN for February 1907 (34: 57-112, pl. §,6) was issued 9 AP 1907-] 
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