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of Pinar del Rio were seen. Along some of the streams, a 
areas are forested with a dense growth of ‘‘poma rosa” 
Jambos), to the exclusion of native species, while near the a 
trees of the alligator pear and mango were prominent. 
The extensive shore line of Bahia Honda was examined with 
the aid of a schooner, but here the flora proved rather uninterest- 
ing, as a large mangrove swamp extends for a considerable dis- 
tance, and the plants collected are — those of similar environ- 
ments on other West Indian islan 
hile at ‘‘ Buenaventura,” ee guidance of a native, I 
visited several streams, along the largest of which, the Rio San 
Miguel, two days were devoted to collecting. Here, however, 
owing to uprooted trees and tangled underbrush, the work of a 
recent cyclone, our progress was greatly retarded, and we were 
often obliged to follow the bed of the river, sometimes in water 
A shrubby aster was found on the rocks in the bed of the river 
in the vicinity of Mal Paso, and excellent herbarium specimens 
of it were prepared, together with other endemic plants. 
The rocky hillsides directly back of Bahia Honda are covered 
with a low, dense growth of shrubbery, and being of a different 
formation, bear for the most part species absent in the coastal 
floras or on the fertile hillsides. 
the steamer plying between Havana, Bahia Honda, and 
other ports along the northwest coast, makes but two trips each 
month, I returned to Havana early on the morning of December 
22. Again having the kind codperation of Brother Leén, we 
explored the region, for a mile or so, between Cojimar and Playa 
de Bacuranao. A short distance back from the coast, we dis- 
covered a single plant of Cereus cnet originally described 
from specimens collected in the vicinity of Havana. This cactus, 
sometimes attainting tree-like dimensions, may formerly have 
been well represented in the coastal flora about here, but at 
the present day it is certainly rare, as it was not noticed at any 
other points we visited. 
Parts of two days were spent in the aii between the Rio 
Almendares and Playa de Marianao, where the flora is more 
varied than in the country about Cojimar. 
