yellow-flowered 

 :actus. On the 

 sea to the base 



)f the 



of the 



e the spaces between the deeply eroded guts are too 



ire strewn with large boulders, showing the effect of 

 nts that occasionally rush through them. The most 

 ous, if not the commonest, plant here is the silver 

 nogramme calomelanos Kaulf. Near the mountains the 

 my of the plants commc 



ies higher up the 



tains, which begin their usually, abrupt a 



cept c 



vept . 



stantly 

 This 

 ■iety of hard-wood trees, among them Spanish 

 cedar, Ccdrela odorata L., snake wood, Ormosia dasycarpa Jacq., 

 "Spanish oak," Inga laurina Willd., galba, 'Calophyllum Calaba L., 

 " locust," Hymenaca Courbaril'L., two kinds of burwood, Sloanea, 

 bayberry, Amomis caryophyllata (Jacq.) Krug. & Urb., and a 

 great variety of shrubs, among them many kinds of Melasto- 

 maceac, a Podocarpus and Wcmmannia pinnata L. A tall tree 

 fern, Cyathea arborea Swartz, often 25 feet high, is very abundant 



whet 



;ntly forr 

 replac 



Euterpe 



/ the mountain cabbage pa 

 ;o forms almost pure growth 



Throughout all this range there is 

 r flowering plants both terrestrial ar 

 many genera, such as Begonia, Pipe 

 , Heliconia, Philodendrum, and Carl, 



ited, the highest' in el 

 in altitude of about 2,8 

 :he eastern side of the 



