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grateful to Sefior Don Manuel Leon Valdes, Chief of Customs at 
Caimanera, for his aid in shipping our collections to New York. 
On the San Carlos Estate we were enabled, under the guid- 
ance of Mr. Chas. F. Ramsden, manager, to examine the fine 
forest, which yielded us specimens of many plants not seen nearer 
the coast, many of the trees up to go feet high, and the under- 
growth very dense. A very small and delicate filmy-fern, grow- 
ing on tree-trunks, was one of the more interesting species de- 
Fic. 23. The Cuban “cherry,” Cardia calococca, near Guantanamo. 
tected. Here, on the San Carlos estate, we saw and photographed 
a curious palm, one of the endemic Cuban species of Copernicia, 
its young growth covering large areas and almost impossible to 
eradicate, The hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks was un- 
bounded and we left Guantanamo with delighetal recollections 
of our visit and with an invitation to return and occupy any of 
the five great estates as collecting bases in the future. 
