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being made up several rivers and canyons, but with poor results. Five 
plants of Cypripedium caudatum Wallisii were found on one tree, but three 
‘weeks’ search failed to find another. 
“On this same trip I also found a most gorgeous Masdevallia, the 
flowers very much like M. Veitchii, but larger and finer in every way; its 
leaves were long, sword-like, and glaucous in colour, some measuring 
‘twenty-four inches in length. I found about twenty plants of all sizes in 
one tree, but not another plant anywhere. As misfortune would have it, 
these plants never reached home alive. Some time after this I rediscovered 
it a considerable distance further southward towards the Pacific, and 
gathered quite a number of plants, packed them and forwarded them to 
Buenaventura. Here they were retained for nearly two months on account 
-of quarantine regulations, and were consequently lost.” 
Crossing the valley westward “we find on the western Cordillera 
along the Rio Dagua the chaste Miltonia Roezlii; in fact this is its home. 
True it is scattered here and there along the course of the Rio Cauca 
through the Antioquian Mountains, but not in quantity. Here along the 
Rio Dagua it grows par excellence. The climate is extremely hot and very 
moist, it fact it rains pretty nearly every day in the year, and water oozes 
-out of the rocks everywhere. On the ledges and rocks large clumps of 
‘Cypripedium Roezlii may be seen in luxuriance.” 
Leaving the beautiful Cauca valley, and crossing the Central Cordillera 
towards the state of Tolima, by a southern route, Cattleya Trianz is found 
in its southern haunts. The trail leads over a very inhospitable region, 
-cold and dreary, the forest in the highest parts giving way to grasses and 
the inseparable companion of the high plateaus, a giant Gnaphalium. 
“* Along certain ridges on the trail, in clumps of trees, I noticed Masdevallia 
racemosa in full bloom; these grew in the thickets in semi-darkness, and I 
am sure that the rays of the sun could never penetrate to their retreats, yet 
here they flourished, unmindful of the cold and dreary atmosphere and 
-darkness. Masses of scarlet end red colours could be seen when peeping 
‘through the thickets.” 
Reaching the lower foothills on the eastern side of the See 
‘Cordillera one can expect to get a glimpse of Cattleya Triane. “In the 
-extreme southern part of Tolima the three chains of Andes are very close 
“to one another, and owing also to the continuous rise of the country from 
the Caribbean sea southward, we find here Cattleya Triane scattered 
everywhere: on the lower mountain sides, in the valleys, in hollows 
or in fact any place where there are clumps of 
Every little hill or stream has 
distance to a place of ship- 
me yet, or until every- 
“trees. The variation of type is very great. 
uits own particular type, but owing to the long 
“ment these plants will be undisturbed for some tl 
