48 TlMEHRI. 
bed of the Kookenaam and other rivers, at the foot of 
that mountain, at an elevation of from 3,700 feet to, per- 
haps, 4,000 feet. Each walk by the side of these streams 
disclosed abundant specimens. But on Christmas day I 
was lucky enough from one tree, overhanging the bath- 
ing pool in the Kookenaam, close to Teroota, to collect: 
two most glorious clumps of this orchid, the better of 
the two having five spikes of flower, of which one bore 
nine, each of the others eight, blossoms, in all forty-one 
of some of the largest and finest coloured Cattleya 
flowers ever seen, on a single small plant, the roots of 
which easily lay on my extended hand. Our Christmas 
decoration then, consisting of an enormous pile of these 
flowers, was a fitting farewell to the glorious flower 
forms of Roraima. 
The next morning we started homeward, and return- 
ing along our old path, after some serious misfortunes, 
causing much delay, and not a few adventures, which 
must be told, if ever, on some future occasion, we 
reached our old starting place at the junction of the 
Essequibo and Mazerooni rivers on the 28th of January. 
SlEDEL, who left Roraima two days after we did, arrived 
at this same point two days after us. 
