JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. XI. September, 1908. No. 105, 
REPORT ON BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN 
PANAMA 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, DrrecTor-1n-CuIzErF. 
Sir: In accordance with your instructions, I left New York 
January 25, 1908, for the Republic of Panama, in order to make 
collections for the Botanical Garden, especially outside of the 
canal zone. I was delayed by illness for two weeks at Kingston 
and did not reach Colon until February 16, where I remained 
over Sunday, taking the 8:40 A. M. train the next day for Pana- 
ma, a ride occupying over three hours, owing to the many stops 
at stations along the route of forty-eight miles. 
The entire canal zone, as well as Colon and Panama, was so 
greatly improved since the American occupation that I scarcely 
recognized it as the same region passed over a few years before. 
After getting located at one of the many hotels in Panama, I 
called on Pinel Brothers, to whom I had a letter of introduction 
from the Colon agent of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 
to inquire about transportation to Pacific coast ports within the 
Republic of Panama. From the information kindly given me I 
concluded to make my headquarters at Penonome for a time, the 
town being some twenty miles inland, in the vicinity of mountains, 
and some one hundred miles west of the canal zone, As the 
next boat for Porto Posada, the nearest landing to |Penonome, 
did not leave for several days, I put in some time collecting near 
the town. 
Panama bay has a tide of sixteen or eighteen feet, and at low 
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