Dr. M. A. Howe gave a brief account of the 1922 dahlia 

 border at the N. Y. Botanical Garden and invited those interested 

 to see it while at its best. 



Dr. Tracy E. Hazen outlined his three months connection 

 with the Colombian Expedition of 1922. Arriving at Buena- 

 ventura on July 8th, the railroad journey of some seven hours to 

 the summit of the pass of the western Cordillera of the Andes 

 is one of surpassing interest botanically, with a constant suc- 

 cession of beautiful scenes; mangrove swamps, tropical forest 

 abounding in Heliconias, Cecropias, tree ferns and fascinating 

 panorama of varied palms ; the narrow gorge of the Dagua river 

 opening up above into a most surprising cactus and acacia desert, 

 to which later a very rewarding visit was made in company with 

 Mr. Killip and a camera. 



At an elevation of 5,250 feet, the village of La Cumbre, built 

 up almost entirely since the establishment there through private 

 American enterprise of the well equipped Smith Clinic, com- 

 manding magnificent views of mountain and valley, and sur- 

 rounded by rich subtropical forest, was a most delightful base 

 for a week at the beginning and again at the end of the trip. 

 Descending to the Cauca valley, the other members of the ex- 

 pedition. Dr. F. W. Pennell and Mrs. Pennell and Mr. Ellsworth 

 P. Killip, who for some weeks had been in the south at Popaydn, 

 were met at Cali. Down the Cauca by river boat to Zarzal, 

 thence by mule train up into the Quindio region of the Cordillera 

 Central occupied the latter half of July and August. From 

 Salento as a base, the ride with Mr. Killip over the historic 

 Quindio trail to Ibague furnished perhaps the greatest com- 

 bination of exhilarating scenery and memorable botanizing of 

 the summer, with its great variety of orchids and passion 

 flowers, and, finest of all the miles of trail through the forest of 

 majestic wax palms {Ceroxylon andicola). 



Through the courtesy of Senor Alfonso Tobon, about two weeks 

 were spent above Salento at Alaska, the mountain estate of the 

 Tobon family, which stretches up through fine temperate forest 

 to paramo and snow fields. The flora of the high moor sur- 

 rounding the expedition camp on the high paramo at the foot 

 of the Nevado del Quindio was enticing for the photographer: a 

 profusion of dwarf gentians, lupines, heaths, figworts, and com- 

 posites, surrounded by the tall, densely woolly Frailejon {Es- 



