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beautiful, orchid fanciers at home will imagine that 

 large quantities are to be seen in bloom at once. This 

 is not generally the case with an)- class of orchids I 

 have seen in their native woods ; it is rare to see a tree 

 with more than four or five plants, and these perhaps 

 not all in flower at once ; but in the eood districts, 

 before the plants were taken away so much, almost 

 every tree and ledge of rock would have some one 

 or more specimens in bloom, so that a large quantity 

 might be seen in the course of one day. Near La 

 Palma, but on higher, cooler ground, I found a few 

 small plants of Miltonia Phalcenopsis, and in another 

 locality quite a clump of Oneidium Kramcrianum, 

 as well as Chysis, Bolleas, and various Oncidiums. 

 The vicinity of Muzo, near the emerald mine, is where 

 I have found the largest quantity of the glorious Blue 

 Butterfly ( MorpJw Cypris), some of them measuring- 

 seven inches across the wings, of a radiant blue that 

 few artists' pencils can depict. Although Cattleya 

 Warscewiczii is exported largely from La Palma, it is 

 also found growing, mixed with Cattleya Dowiana 

 aurea, in the State of Antioquia. I have collected 

 Odontoglossum Pescaiorei in the hills near to Ocaria, in 

 the Department of Santander ; but it would be weari- 

 some to my readers to enumerate all that occurs in 

 the tiresome ten days of riding over the Andes from 

 the town of Bucaramanea to the Pescaiorei grounds. 



