The New York Botanical Garden 



REPORT ON A COLLECTING TRIP IN COSTA RICA. 

 Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief : 



I beg to submit the following brief account of a botanical col- 

 lecting trip in Costa Rica, covering substantially the months of 

 April and May, 1906, the period of my furlough from the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



I left New York, March 31, on the Atlas Line steamer Sibiria, 

 bound for Port Limon by way of Jamaica and Colombia. Kings- 

 ton was reached during the night of April 5. The following day 

 I passed at Hope Gardens as the guest of the Superintendent, 

 Wm. Harris, Esq., with whom, in the absence of the Director, I 

 undertook to arrange for the shipment to New York of living 

 plants of the several species of cactuses native to Jamaica. Upon 

 my return (May 31) these specimens were delivered to me on 

 shipboard by Mr. Harris, according to arrangement, the details 

 of which had been agreed upon during my absence, and were 

 brought by me to New York. I ought to mention also that the 

 privileges of the herbarium at Hope were freely and cordially 

 granted me, as upon my two previous visits of longer duration. 



Leaving Kingston, April 7, I reached Puerto Colombia (Sa- 

 vanilla), Colombia, April 9. On the tenth I collected a number 

 of interesting cactuses and orchids from the dry hills back of the 

 harbor and sent these alive to New York. From Puerto Colom- 

 bia it was a short run to Cartagena where several hours were 

 spent, April 1 1. Port Limon was reached April 13. 



Port Limon, which the enterprise of the United Fruit Com- 

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