RESIDENCE AT TARAPOTO loi 
1094 species of flowering plants and ferns, to 
which must be added several hundred species 
of mosses and Hepaticse — his favourite groups — 
which here for the first time formed an important 
part of the vegetation. It must be remembered 
that this by no means affords any near approach 
to the whole flora of the Maynensian Andes (as he 
termed the district of which Tarapoto formed the 
centre), because, both by inclination and necessity, 
he limited his collections as much as possible to 
species which he had not met with before, and 
especially to such as he believed to be unknown to 
European botanists. We know from his Journals 
that often he could not possibly collect all he saw, 
especially among the forest trees, and that he was 
accustomed often to leave ungathered many new 
species in favour of others which he believed to 
constitute new genera. These Tarapoto plants were 
the result of about eighteen months' collecting ; for, 
although he resided there a year and three-quarters, 
at least three months were lost by illness and in 
the preparations for his journey to the Ecuadorean 
Andes.] 
