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1094 species of flowering plants and ferns, to 

 which must be added several hundred species 

 of mosses and Hepaticae his favourite groups 

 which here for the first time formed an important 

 part of the vegetation. It must be remembered 

 that this by no means affords any near approach 

 to the whole flora of the Maynensian Andes (as he 

 termed the district of which Tarapoto formed the 

 centre), because, both by inclination and necessity, 

 he limited his collections as much as possible to 

 species which he had not met with before, and 

 especially to such as he believed to be unknown to 

 European botanists. We know from his Journals 

 that often he could not possibly collect all he saw, 

 especially among the forest trees, and that he was 

 accustomed often to leave ungathered many new 

 species in favour of others which he believed to 

 constitute new genera. These Tarapoto plants were 

 the result of about eighteen months' collecting ; for, 

 although he resided there a year and three-quarters, 

 at least three months were lost by illness and in 

 the preparations for his journey to the Ecuadorean 

 Andes.] 



