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in the dense hillside thickets, the fruit of one of these being much 
sought after by birds. 
Between the two ridges the surface is relatively flat and for 
the most part used for pasture-lands, or is under cultivation. 
In the vicinity of small habitations two familiar weeds, the pepper- 
grass (Lepidium virginicum) and the common plantain (Plantago 
major), are established. 
This entire range was thoroughly explored between December 
14 and January 1, and the collection obtained here will un- 
doubtedly prove of much interest. 
Returning to Havana on the afternoon of January 1, I visited 
the following day the valley of the Rio Bacuranao in company 
with Brother Léon, and on the 3d, we had the pleasure of his 
colleague, Brother Victorin’s, company to Cumbre Hermosa, 
where several plants not represented in our herbarium from the 
province of Havana, were obtained. 
he afternoon of January 4 was given to exploration of the 
Jata Hills at Guanabacoa, where many interesting small grasses 
were found, and several shrubs among which were two species 
of Malpighia, and an Erythroxylon a alaternifolium) which 
grew very plentifully. 
The large collection of plants brought together by Dr. J. A. 
Shafer during November and December, in the extreme western 
part of the province of Pinar del Rio, was placed in my care at 
Havana, and included with my collection which I brought 
through to New York on January 9 
Resseetiully seats 
PERCY WILSON, 
pene Curator. 
THE FLOWERING OF THE JAMAICA CANDLE-WOOD 
TREE 
Among some of the rare and little-known species brought from 
the West Indies by the various expeditions of the Garden, and 
installed in the living-pl Hlecti are a number of specimens 
of the Jamaica candle-wood (Pullosiema pteleoides), one of which 
flowered at Conservatory Range 2, on January 6, 1912. 
