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All the passable roads of the island were traversed by auto- 
from Barros to Juana Dias, and from Boqueron across the head- 
land to the lighthouse. 
The Pepino hills, the haystack hills of Berkey, offer particularly 
interesting though often difficult collecting. For this formation 
ega Baja is a good central location as is also the Rio Tanama or 
the cliffs on each side of the Arecibo-Utuado road. 
The coastal region from Boqueron to Guanica and around to 
Ponce presents a limestone formation and has an exceedingly 
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uniform in vegetation, especially in the c regions, r 
generally less interesting. High altitude collecting in original 
ma de Sierra forest is best at El Yu nd ; n 
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and, third, the region between the river junction below Utuado 
and Florida Adentro 
F. L. STEVENS 
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 
Ursana, ILLINOIS 
AN INTERESTING ARUM FROM INDIA 
A peculiar bulb-bearing plant, Amorphophallus bulbifer, may 
be seen during the summer season in Conservatory Rang 
house 11, on one of the side benches. The large, calla-like 
flower appears first, followed about four weeks later by the single 
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