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out rain, so it is necessary to resort to irrigation, an ample suppl 
being furnished by the streams coming fro e tains 
The t day being Sunday, which at this establishment, unlike 
rs, is devoted to rest and recreation, I ne ily 
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material. Collections were begun next morning, my host having 
seen to it that I was provided with a good guide and horses. We 
proceeded up the San Lorenzo valley through miles of cane and 
banana and thence into dense forests of tall trees and shrubbery 
variety m no rexmbling a ee kaheries was a very striking ease 
five g with 
covered with rather large orange- polotede fruit quite common. 
ie was gases elle 100; to ae a aa of different aes of 
have thought 
was too uid and fertile for this class of plan 
d set out in the morning with the idea a collecting in the 
dry hills meee which had so delighted Dr. Spegazzini, but 
the many things that arrested my attention had so impeded my 
progress that we made no attempt to get there in ae afternoon. 
The day was very hot and sultry, but the last stage of our return 
cross it would have proved suicidal. My work was much re- 
tarded by the wet weather, but excursions were made into various 
places in all directions except the one bounded by the river. 
Mr. Smythe frequently accompanied me places where he had 
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were not met with elsewhere. An excursion into the mountains 
- the region of the frozen coffee plantation was very interesting, 
but no cacti were found save several Rhipsalis which had already 
been collected. ee the valley becomes dryer and less 
