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cakes of crusted lava tilt up and disappear, with din of lava surf 
breaking on the crags. At half hour periods all activity is intens¬ 
ified. 
W here there have been no recent lava flows, the upper slopes of 
the volcano are richly clothed with forest. The trunks are covered 
with wet moss, giving roothold to ferns and flowering plants. The 
curious birdnest fern lodges in the branches. Further up there is 
fine tree fern jungle, followed by scarlet flowered lehua forest and 
in places great koa 2 trees. 
Along the margin of the outer crater of Kilauea we noted one 
of the few northern hemisphere plants recognizable in the bewild¬ 
ering botany of Hawaii. It is the Ohelo, a huckleberry, much larg¬ 
er than ours, red, and fruiting in wonderful profusion. It was 
tabu in the old days, being sacred to Pele, the volcano goddess. It 
is very palatable, and makes a pie to be remembered with affection. 
Among the greatest attractions of Hawaii is the hospitality of 
her delightful people. Perhaps it has limits, but we could find 
none. And it may be suspected that the resolve of each one of us 
to revisit Hawaii was really as much to enjoy again the friends we 
have made as to work on the scientific problems of the islands. 
A TRIP TO THE SANTA MARTA REGION 
OF COLOMBIA. 
By James A. G. Rehn. 
If one looks at a relief map of the Republic of Colombia there 
will be seen in the western and west-central portion, the principal 
mountains of the country running in three roughly parallel north¬ 
east and south-west series. They will notice that the series or 
ranges come together in the south in what the geographers call “1 he 
Pasco Knot;” also that the valleys between the three ranges are 
occupied by the Magdalena River and its main affluent, the Cauca 
River. The three large divisions of the Colombian Andes are called 
the “Cordillera Occidental,” “Cordillera Central,” and the “Cor¬ 
dillera Oriental.” 
To the north the first two of these cordilleras die out before they 
reach the region of the Caribbean Sea, but the eastern or “Orien- 
2 A species of Acacia. 
