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Cuba, and his interest in natural objects was well known to me, 
so it was with keen pleasure that we made his acquaintance at a 
dinner thoughtfully arranged by Capt. Harlow on the “ Newark,” 
the evening after our arrival, and I gladly accepted an invitation 
to study certain of the woodlands and thickets on the vast estates 
under his management, which are intersected by railroads in all 
directions through the valley north of the naval reservation ; I 
spent March 19 with him, his private locomotive-car furnishing 
Fic, 22. ereskia, Nuevaliches, near Guantanamo, Cuba. 
a convenient means of moving from point to point between Cai- 
manera and Guantanamo, mainly on the Los Cafios Estate, where 
we were pkererae received by Mr. Daniel Batiste, manager, 
and on further invitation we proceeded to Guantanamo on leav- 
ing the naval station on March 31 and devoted two days to ad- 
ditional work in this field. Near Nuevaliches, we found and 
studied an interesting cactus of the genius Pereskia; this genus 
differs from most cacti in having well-developed leaves. We are 
