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tion of a considerable number of species recorded by authors as 
growing near Havana, but not recently found. It may be that 
some of these are very local in distribution and that recent 
students have therefore failed to find them. The botanists at- 
tached a few years ago to the Cuban Agricultural Experiment 
Station did considerable field work near Havana, and our valued 
correspondent Brother Leon of the Colegio de la Salle at Vedado, 
has also collected quite extensively here, but a number of trees 
and shrubs remain lost, and are known to science only from the 
old specimens preserved in herbariums and museums of the Old 
World. It is desirable to make still further search for them, and 
I propose to locate a collector at Havana, when convenient, in 
order to make another attempt to obtain specimens for our col- 
lections, and to describe them, if found, more completely than 
has been done. 
On August 25 after a visit to the Botanical Gardens of Havana 
where we observed many plants of interest, we proceeded west- 
ward by rail to Herradura, near the center of the Province of 
Fic. 29. The Barrigona Palm, Colpothrinax Wrightii, near Herradura. 
