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profusion of strange forms and many exceedingly beautiful ones. 

 When he succeeds in passing over and among the mountain 

 tops he finds forests of oak, mingled with a great variety of other 

 trees and thickly clothed with epithytes, including many orchids, 

 ferns and bromeliads. Wherever he encounters a little stream 

 or some boggy ground, there is a world of little things which add 



Fig. 6. Byrsonima Karwmskiana. 



a peculiar charm to the day's study. Along the larger streams 

 we see many trees at whose affinities we can hardly guess. One 

 of them is heavily clothed at the ends of the branchlets with tufts 

 of thick, shining linear leaves resembling in outline and size the 

 fruits of the catalpa, and having dense masses of fruits resembling 



