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the forest after rainfalls, yielded many others, including a showy 
purple-flowered tree of the Meadow-Beauty Family, and a deli- 
cate little tufted Se/aginella growing in travertine. The coastal 
hills provided several trees and shrubs not seen further west, 
but the inland hills proved dry and uninteresting. Returning, 
we camped in a charcoal shed at Guajimica Cove on the night of 
March 25; here there is another fine little harbor, its eastern side 
a precipitous cliff in the coastal hills, where a red-flowered Ges- 
neria, found sparingly at Rio San Juan, grows in great plenty 
the mangrove-swamp margins furnished other plants not 
ae. seen on this trip; Rio Gavelan, a navigable stream, 
was visited in the afternoon, and in the evening, the boatmen 
pronouncing the viento bueno del norte, we set sail for Castillo de 
Jagua and ran in under a six-knot breeze, well repaid botanically, 
and delighted with our cruising experiences on the south coast. 
Our reception by the country people, both in the mountains and 
along the coast was most cordial; help and hospitality were freely 
offered at every point and politeness is evidently a natural trait; 
there was no inquisitive observation, and as soon as our errand 
was learned, intelligent interest was at once evidenced; our recol- 
lections of these kindly people will be most pleasant. 
e two main objects of our expedition having been accom- 
plished, a third one was taken up, and a visit made to the city of 
Santa Clara where we proceeded by rail on the afternoon of 
March 28, for the purpose of studying the flora of the extensive 
palm-barren nearby and three days were given to this work. 
This botanically interesting tract of land occupies many square 
miles, characterized by the abundant growth of a Copernicia 
palm; of many kinds of low shrubs and trees, for the most part 
different species from those inhabitating either the mountains 
or the coast, and of many grasses and small plants along the water 
courses; the variety of plants growing here is evidenced by our 
securing specimens of one hundred and seventy different species 
during three days of continuous collecting; some of these are 
the same as those had in the similar barren near Camaguay 
last year, but many are different, and not seen by us before; a 
Tecoma shrub, of the Trumpet-creeper Family, with showy pink 
flowers was abundant and conspicuous. 
