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PLACE AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES DATE 
SYLVANIA 
forms), heliconias, bamboo, banana, and mi sc. 
shrubs and trees. 
b. reddish underlying rocky clay soil: much vol- 
canic outcropping rock. 
15A. SYLVANIA - Same gorge but opposite Sylvania house 8-14 
Difference - timber out off here so hhat it is 
now open to sun. Dasheen and bananas planted 
along banks. 
HAWEIS * garden - all these things are, except as 8-14 
noted, uncultivated and native. 
IMPERIAL ROAD - between Sylvania house and Mahaut 8-13 
River (beyond Corona ) . 8-23 
(See soil conditions from Knowlton’s Admiralty 
Map ) . 
1700* approx, to 2000* (behind Lionel’s). 
The land lying beside this Imperial Road is, for 
a portion of the way, indicated above cultivated 
to oranges on one side so is more or less open 
except for original forest growth existent here 
and there; on the eastern side of the road, how- 
ever, there is largely what I take to be primeval 
forest extending practically to the roadside dit- 
ches. Unless otherwise stated on the sheets, the 
collected specimens numbered #16 are from the for- 
est border flanking the road. 
According to J.E.Knowlton the nature of the soil 
in the region is: "From Sylvania to Riversdale 
the soil is underlaid with hardpan at a depth j6 
varying from 4 feet to a few inches. While the 
quality of this soil is superb, after Corona its 
depth is generally too shallow for successful 
cultivation. Rainfall at Corona is about 200”: 
at Sylvania about 175". 
17. TROIS PITONS - S. 
U. 
.Summit (4600’ ) (Howes ) 
.Upper Forest 
8-15 
S. Almost entirely at this time submerged in clouds 
and rain (Aug.). Probably but one clear day per 
week at summit. 
Highest point on northernmost Pitons (where these 
collections were made) was clear of trees and 
shrubs: on the volcanic rocky outgrowths here was 
growing chiefly the white-flowered Bromelia in the 
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