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miles from Pinar del Rio. Taking the cross-section of the island 
made easy of study by the Coloma-Esperanza road and the 
country adjacent to it, we find at Coloma a mangrove-fringed 
coast with a pretty little harbor, the littoral vegetation that of 
all similar regions in the West Indies. This is immediately suc- 
ceeded by a nearly level belt raised only a few feet above tide- 
water, characterized by a dense forest of the low palma blanca 
purplish flowers was a conspicuous floral feature. Succeeding 
this Copernicia plain come savanna lands marked by the Paurotis 
Fic..32. The Sierra near Bafios San Vicente. Reyal Palms on the talus. 
palm in great abundance, with many fresh-water lagoons and 
moist sedgy swales remarkably rich in species of low herbaceous 
plants like those of similar areas of our southeastern states, 
including sundews (Drosera), yellow-flowered bladderworts (Utric- 
