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after long search, to its home on crags near Vega Baja, and its 
out two yo an ic! pe will grow at the Garden 
e ation upo ese limestone hills is usually 
zieat density, trees, shrubs and woody vines interlocking, making 
study sl cult, and in most places there are vertical 
cliffs above the talus which effectively block access to their 
summits ns and mosses aboun specimens 0 y 
pe ere e On one of these hills near Catafio we 
collected, after arduous clmbing, foliage, flowers 
one remarkable of all trees, the morelon (Coccolobis 
gosa). We observed, fro e plain, conspicuous re 
ay was aie to an inland excursion to Las Cruces, our 
object being the tudy of a oe d mountain Cerro de 
pendent Dendropemon. AQ fine tree-fe: nd several smaller 
ferns are abundant there, and several kinds of orchids were 
dominant tree, other the mountain palm, is 
ear and along the northern coast at several points, a broad- 
leaved calabash-tree, growing near Luquillo bearing both flowers 
