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From the last ridge above Villavicencio I had enjoyed a wide 
view of the plain stretching eastward. ostly this was dark 
green with forest, but two light yellow bands crossed it and 
widened northward. These were the “Ilanos,” open grassy 
plains, a prolongation southward, if I understand it correctly, 
of the great llanos of Casanare. The nearest area was only two 
to three hours from Villavicencio, and to that, in spite of the 
deep mud of the trail, two one-day trips were made. 
Oh, to have botanized more extensively on these Ilanos! The 
flora is of eastern type, as was that of the upper Magdalena plain, 
but here it is not xerophytic and is far richer. The level rolling 
ment. e 
Borreria, Bradburya, Chamaecrista, etc., and most intereting to 
a yellow “Gerardioid” Se ee I ie 
Ryncho- 
spora, Scleria, Loris Eriocaulaceae, Mayaca, "Upieane, Lud- 
Melasto 
wigia, Burmannia, Menthaceae, small Melas maceae, small- 
flowered Scrophulariaceae—and you have some impression of 
its ee what we see in southern Georgia and Florida. 
n Villavicencio days, August 27-September 3. 
The return trip what deferred because of the earth- 
quake* of August 31 “While not severe this had caused many 
landslides on the tr The ‘“‘temblores” proved not to be 
ail. ‘oO 
over even by September 6, for while at Monte Redondo, in the 
midst of the most precipitous open slopes, we felt decided shocks. 
But all went well, and I arrived at Bogoté September 8, bearing 
a rich collection of specimens. 
Over two months, until November 28, were spent in and near 
Bogota, never leaving the department of Cundinamarca. All of 
ken t 
sions to the northern and southern eutoiiries of the Sabana 
* Serious damage from this was almost confined to the churches, mostly very 
old structures. In Villavicencio one wall a in, Sire Gite worshippers—the 
noe serious loss a life “teporte ed in oon: The s atic disturbance is 
th i ne no of Ruiz, a moun- 
tain which later I climbed. 
