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(all the rooms had doors and windows on the balconies) was 

 draped in green, for an asparagus (sprengeri or near that 

 species) growing in a small tub, had been trained up one 

 side of the doorway, across the top and down the other side. 

 On one side of the porch there was a wire network over 

 which was trained a vine foreign to Costa Rica and highly 

 esteemed here — white and yellow honeysuckle. On an- 

 other side was a screen of Clerodendron with red and white 

 flowers. The orchid tubers were favorite places for the 

 nests of a little black bee {Trigona cupira) which has the 

 habit of going always into the hair or beard to sting, never 

 attacking the bare face or hands. Fortunately its sting is 

 not severe, but it was necessary to look out for these bees 

 when going about among the baskets on the balcony. 



After coffee on the sixteenth we walked back (south) of 

 the house into a potrero bordering a good-sized stream, the 

 Rio Santa Clara, Mr. Woodbridge riding with us a little 

 way to start us in the right direction. The potrero was 

 pretty, though not so beautiful as the one we visited at 

 Turrialba, and had many grand forest trees standing in it, 

 left purposely for shade. Some of these trees bore an in- 

 credible weight of epiphytes, others having a smoother bark 

 or the habit of peeling off the bark (like our northern 

 sycamores) were perfectly clean. We spent parts of sev- 

 eral days in this potrero, at times down among the rocks of 

 the river, at times in the pasture itself where there were 

 some small streams and pools but without finding anything 

 very valuable. There were few dragonflies flying and those 

 seen were not particularly rare. We noticed a large fallen 

 tree, with glossy compound leaves, which bore curious 

 fruits — small woody pods split in two, of which one side fell 

 away leaving the other attached to the stem. The contents, 

 one seed in a mass of pure white pulp, fell out and hung by 

 some threads to the lower end of the pod and as the pod it- 



