wild-growing trees. Among the shrubs of the rubber forests, 
Crotons, Pipers, Ourateas, Coccolobas, and especially Acalyphas, 
bl T i nu 
ure cu so 
adapted to hybridization, and this may yet be found to have 
re) diff culti 
miss the gigantic. Many of the trees of this region are undoubt- 
1}. Id 
with an impenetrable mass o h through 
these swamps are the t beautiful little bayous or canals 
thing can exceed in interest and ight a day’s canoeing 
among thi row waterways, altho there is great danger 
that the inexperienced boatman will hopelessly lose his way 
Even the so-called highlands, near the mou mazon, 
are such only in the dry season. In the rainy season this river 
rises sixty feet or more above its low water mark and the boat- 
man travels among the tree-tops which a few weeks before were 
high above his hea 
H. H. Russy. 
