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Sincelejo. The broad trail runs between enormous areas of 
pasture, a land kept green by the drought-resistant guinea and 
para-grasses. So solidly are these grown that once in the primi- 
tive open there appears to be no native flora left. The trail, 
ti 
delicate flush to the eae appearing—in habit too—like 
rows of overgrown peach tre 
The areas of forest, irregularly scattered across the sabana, 
forest must be both flood and drought resistant Sabana 
of Bolivar and through the lower Sinu valley the year is divide 
into two seasons, wet, becoming very wet, from Ma ovem- 
ber, dry, becoming very dry, from Decembe 
ry dry o Apri 
r L. Sliger, of Monteria, for thirty years in <iene of 
American lumber interests in this section, assures me that the 
entire lower valley of the Rio Sinu was once forested. Consider- 
ing the small population there it is amazing that deforestation 
n such a scale should ever have been carried on. For now the 
Sinu valley, from the forest near tidewater around Cispata Bay, 
are left, and above Monteria occasional strips of forest along the 
ank. Otherwise this plain is the poorest botanizing land 
inable 
xception de of certain low hills which about Lorica 
and Monteria rise as islands above the plain. These are wooded 
with the peculiar forest above note The xerophytism of aa 
ost pronounced. When I last saw it during March, 
oe rainless months, the trees had mostly ate their en 
Indeed its distant aspect, the leafless trees, the usually lower 
