42 Sarrorp: NoTEs OF A NATURALIST AFLOAT—III 
Many of the coffee plantations are reached only by moun- 
tain trails across ridges and ravines, which yield a rich 
and varied harvest. At Isolina, westward from Ciales, 
there is an area of primeval forest, including magnificent 
specimens of tabanuco trees (Dacryodes excelsa), the : 
_ straight smooth white trunks of which sometimes rise 
to a height of more than a hundred feet. 
Near Utuado the slopes are more or less deforested, 
but there are beautiful clumps of royal palms (Roystonea _ 
borinquena) which add grace to the landscape, and in the © 
ravines there are rank growths of ferns, aroids, Pipera- — 
ceae, and Melastomaceae. Higher up there are groves — 
ae mountain palms (Acrista monticola), and the limbs — 
2 and trunks of the hardwood trees are clothed with filmy 
phan At the inter 
