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had come to Lucea several days previous and had secured con- 
venient quarters in a cottage on the shore; the collections had 
now become so large that the time of all members of the party 
was fully occupied in their increase, care and preservation and 
this condition obtained during the rest of the trip, one or two 
persons usually remaining in camp or on the boat with the speci- 
mens while the others collected. We are indebted to the Hon. 
Mr. Sanftleben, Custos of Hanover, for advice and aid. 
Mr. Harris had made a previous visit to Dolphin Head and 
had obtained specimens of some rare plants, but his work was 
then hampered by almost continuous rain. This time we had 
two clear _ splendid mountain days and two broken ones. 
tion, reached by carriage from Lucea; Dolphin Head is 1,816 
i Its forests contain a variety of trees and shrubs not 
wn to grow elsewhere, and our collections there include 
a ; 
flowered ASlakea, a vine of the Melastoma Family, clothes the 
trees in places; the nickel tree (Ormoszu), a tall (ores tree related 
to our locusts, is endemic here, as is the red-flowered shrub 
Gesneria scabra, and there are many fine orchids and bromeliads. 
Here Mrs. Britton found rich collecting ground for mosses and 
hepatics, On a wooded foothill we found the magnificent tree 
flernandia with its curious pouch-like, translucent fruits, each 
enclosing one black eight-ribbed seed; in order to secure these 
we had to have felled a tree over sixty feet high, with a trunk 
diameter of about two feet, and this afforded us an interesting 
illustration of the efficiency of the machete, our negro guide 
hacking this large trunk through with the long thin blade in 
less than half an hour, quite as expeditiously as one of our 
northern woodsmen would have done it with an axe and appar- 
ently with no greater effort. We had to fell many trees here 
and elsewhere in order to get their flowers or fruits, though in 
many instances they were had by climbing; this same guide 
gave us an unconscious expert exhibition of climbing on one 
occasion when we sent him up a fifty foot Mayepaea, and happened 
to notice that he balanced the machete on his head all the way 
up to the lowest branch, some thirty feet ! 
