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crowns the most perfect water-cups I have seen in this family. 
tain-soil is porous and soon drained—above the cloud-forest it 
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Ups. 
For a while I feared there would be found no grassland, paramo, 
on this portion of the range. But such there proved to be. 
It was very small, here only about five or seven acres, and, as 
could be seen on nearby peaks, there are many other such little 
areas. Far to the eastward could be seen a higher mountain 
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istory, cut his way in 1915. His account of the barrenness of 
the paramo there agrees with my finding on this minute Paramo 
de Chaquiro. 
though so small in extent the flora is aia Pernettya, 
Sisyrinchium, epee Bomarea, Gentiana, Befaria, Geranium, 
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saw no Pend s Oxalis, ee Fagelia or many more such 
genera is most surprisin: 
I left the Paramo de Ghai February 24. Of the return 
trip to Boca Verde, and to Monteria, there of delay in obtaining 
transportation; of the boat-ride to Cartagena, thence to Barran- 
quilla and to New York, no account need be given. At Carta- 
gena and at the nearby Turbaco, frequent type- “stations for 
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Cordillera were brought to New York, as well as the dried 
IV 
Collection IV includes numbers 3965 to 4771, from the sabana 
of Bolivar, the Rio Sinu to the Cordillera, and a few from coastal 
or near-coastal stations. 
Francis. W. PENNELL 
