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has become so complete that we see scarcely any of the trees, 
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alongside the road, which is to have a bridge at this point, thus 
leaving the beautiful natural features unchan: 
erns of great beauty and variety abound, frot the stately 
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streams, together with a conser variety of lerbapeoue 
plants. Among them in grassy places a delicate St. John’s 
wort (Hypericum diosmoides) ees little yellow flowers, and the 
West Indian mountain starwort (Alsine) both reminding us of 
these elevations in Porto Rico, as in other Indian islands 
there is no necessary discomfort from heat and we can walk an 
climb about as easily as in the north. We made botanical 
collections also in the mountains about Aibénito. where the 
