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another palm of eastern Porto Rico was found on the wooded 
ills near Ceiba, but with leaves only; this is a silver thatch 
(Coccothrinax), previously studied here by Sintenis, who also 
failed to obtain either flowers or fruit, so the actual botanical 
affinity of the species still remains to be determined. The night- 
blooming climbing cactus of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 
(Hylocereus trigonus) is very plentiful on coastal bluffs at the 
Fajardo playa. 
Coming south and west on the coastwise steamer ‘‘ Ramos” 
we reached Ponce on the morning of March 8, a beautiful and 
interesting trip, the ship aes at several ports; we were joined 
dies on Mar The dry cactus region from 
Ponce to Guanica was aa a a week; specimens of all the 
species were shipped to the Garden, and large collections of the 
general flora were made at Ponce, Penuelas, ea Hekos oe 
nilla, and at Guanica and vicinity, where we y aided 
Dr. Morse and Mr. Rubinstein, of the staff of the great sugar- 
mill, and found many species of interest, including several addi- 
tions to the flora of Porto Rico. 
One day (March 14) was devoted to studies of the mountain 
forest at Alto de la Bandera, on the new carretera from Adjuntas 
to Jayuya, at an altitude of about 2,000 feet, which we reached by 
motor car from Ponce; this proved the pecan of the trip, 
for in this ele: forest, made up of many kinds of trees 
with the noble ‘‘palma de Sierra’’ (Acrista mont) dominant, 
we collected specimens of not fewer than 213 species, a result 
submitted as a record-breaker in botanical a ork. Orchids 
ene and clothed the tree trunks; ferns in great variety 
and luxuriance were everywhere, from small filmys up to tall 
pe cea species; mosses and liverworts carpeted the banks 
and logs, lichens were abundant and fungi numerous, while the 
kinds of flowering shrubs and climbers were unexpectedly large; 
that we came out to the car saturated by a mountain shower, and 
dried up in the subsequent sunshine were only incidents of this 
joyous experience, and we came into Ponce at dinner time with 
both the inside and the outside of the motor, full of packages of 
spoils. For a view of the high altitude flora, we commend 
