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parts, being lower, drier, and much hotter. About La Unién, 
on the Gulf of Fonseca, and up on the slopes of the Volcano of 
aha plants, which are rare elsewhere in Salvador. 
me places about the lake of Olomega are great thickets 
of oe morning-glory, Ipomoea fistulosa, with handsome 
pink flowers, and in others impenetrable ses of a low bush 
Im, known as huiscoyol, covered with long needle-like spines, 
which is abu nt in p i f£ the coast, its hard an 
almost flavorless seeds a delicacy by the natives. 
A shrubby Mimosa seems to thrive best in water several feet 
eep bout the margin ke Maquigiie re is a broa 
visit to La Unién, I spent a couple of days at Amapala, Honduras, 
After leaving La Unién, a week was spent at San Miguel, 
an uninteresting region botanically, and a couple of weeks at 
Vicente. The latte Oo: i 
. Ca Gavio his finca high 
on the slopes of the Volcano of San Vicente, the second highest 
ferns. and orchids, pos there do not seem to be man 
and Ateos, a region unique in Salvador, although bearing some 
