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serves a more carefu ae han we were able to give it in 
our necessarily hurried visit. In an even greater tl 
may be said of the ae between Adjuntas and Utuado. Here 
the distance on the map in a bee line is about six miles, but it 
spurs that separate the feeding streamlets of the tortuous river ; 
the new highway under construction by the government will 
shorten this distance quite considerably. 
Later collections were made in the vicinity of Rio Piedras, Baya- 
mon, and the country back a these places where many interesting 
ve 
all to between Vega Baj ati. Two of the party 
also made a trip to the region between the valley of the Arecibo 
and Ciales, to the coffee plantation of Mr. J. W. van Leenhof, 
where the only really scientific methods of coffee cultivation aia 
curing are carried on in the entire island, and where they were 
fact far the expedition on the part of the government officials 
was made primarily for studying the economic products of the 
