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practicos, five horses and five mules forming the motive power of 
the outfit, a tent, a hammock and a sleeping bag, with camp 
equipment and provisions supplying the domestic needs. It is 
perhaps necessary to record that the mountain roads are im- 
passable by wheeled vehicles. 
The first camp (February 28, March 1) was pitched in a guava 
thicket near Guanabana at 260 meters altitude, and here we 
began to find, in the valleys, near streams, the characteristic 
plants of this mountain system; a few kinds of ferns were abun- 
dant, the manaca palm (Calyptronoma) was a fine feature in one 
ravine and specimens of many interesting trees and shrubs were 
collected. We are grateful to Sefior Don Casimiro Barrios for 
pee attentions. 
arch I we moved on to the penars cascades of the 
Hanabanilla River (almost 320 meters altitude) and camped on 
a grassy ridge above these most attractive waterfalls; this river 
plunges here through a long, deep valley with very steep banks 
clothed with a great variety of plants. Specimens of more than 
one hundred different kinds were obtained during two days’ 
collecting; a small-flowered Agave with bright green leaves was 
a prize worth coming for; ferns and mosses in great variety and 
abundance; many orchids and bromeliads on the trees and rocks; 
and wee flowering plants in the crevices of the rocky river bed 
together with the beauty of the cataracts make this spot one 
long to be remembered. 
A guava thicket at Siguanea, altitude about 400 meters, was 
next occupied as a camp, March 2 to 4, and the wet ravines of 
that vicinity were visited, the most notable one being the Arroyo 
de Manaca at Herradura; ferns, mosses and a variety of woody 
plants being the chief features of interest. Here we were given 
assistance and information by Sefior Don Amado Cardenas Mon- 
teagudo, Commandante of the guardia rurale, and this help is 
gratefully appreciated; Mr. Earle was obliged to leave us here 
on account of duties at the sugar plantations; advantage was 
taken of his return to Cienfuegos for the shipment of the living 
plants collected up to this time. 
On March 5, at the invitation of Sefior Don Manuel Hernandez, 
