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Island has a circumference of about three miles and rises to a 
height of perhaps one thousand feet. A considerable part of the 
land is under cultivation, the growing of pineapples of a particu- 
larly delicious quality being the principal industry. The southern 
side of the island, however, is precipitous and is partly covered 
with a native forest. In densely shaded places in the upper 
ranges of this forest two handsome species of Begonia were found 
in flower and dried specimens of them, with seeds, were obtained. 
Fic. 8. Clusia rosea on a rock-islet near Taboguilla Island, Bay of Panama; a 
Cereus just above the high-water mark. Photo ae taken at a half tide. This and 
the neighboring islets are much frequented by sea-bird 
The rainfall in this region is too great for any extensive develop- 
t of a cactus flora, but on the rocky borders of the islands of 
Taboguilla and Urava, two species of Cereus (in the older sense) 
and one of Opuntia were found. ey were without flowers or 
fruit, so far as observed, but plants of a small narrow-leaved 
