by other collectors, Is La Hondura, down the Atlantic slope 
from La Palma, and at a considerably lower altitude. The 
flora there is extremely rich, especially in orchids. La 
Hondura also is easy of access, but not particularly agree¬ 
able to visit, since it is reining there nearly all the time. 
Another excellent locality is Navarro, south of 
Cartago. I collected also at Orosl, near by, and at Es¬ 
trella, in the mountains south of Cartago, where I went 
one day with Lankester* La Carpintera, a mountain half¬ 
way between San Jose and Cartago, and therefore easily 
reached, is another interesting orchid region. Two plants 
in other groups which have been described as new the past 
year are common there, so I do not believe the flora is 
very well known. As a matter of fact, I imagine that^there 
is a great deal to be done in the Cordillera of Eseasu 
or Candelaria, which rises to the south of San Jose, and 
furnishes the best collecting in the vicinity of the 
capital* It is so near that the botanists of that city 
have naturally neglected it, pueferring to expend their 
energy in reaching seme distant region. 
There is still plenty to be done in Costa Rica in 
collecting plants, and nothing would suit me better than to 
go back, preferably st a different season, to the same lo¬ 
calities that I visited this year. There were a great many 
places that I could have reached easily that I did not have 
time to visit. Two visits to the United Pruit properties 
on the Atlantic Coast were most profitable. There is plenty 
of virgin forest there, and little wrk has been done in 
the region, largely, I suppose, because of fear of malaria, 
of which I am not especially afraid when there are avail¬ 
able as good quarters as those of the Fruit Company. I 
did get rather a good collection of orchids in the coast, 
although, of course, they are not so plentiful as at higher 
altitudes, nor is it so easy to collect those that do 
occur. About the only practical mode of collecting orchids 
there, where the trees are so large, is to hunt for a 
place where they are cutting the trees. I was fortunate 
in finding such conditions at various places in Costa 
Rica. In such places as La Palma it is not necessary even 
to climb the trees, for the orchids grow all over the 
trunks, and the trees are never very large. 
Conditions in the coast are similar to those existing 
in Panama* Here I must state, at Mr. Powell's direction, 
that I can find more orchids almost anywhere in Costa 
Rica, even in the immediate vicinity of the capital, in 
a single day than anywhere about the Canal Zone in a month. 
The latter region seems to me to be a very poor one for 
locating and collecting orchids. They are not very numerous 
at best, and when located are likely to be in such a po¬ 
sition that it is almost impossible to secure them. I 
am surprised that Mr. Powell's men do as well as they do 
about the Zone. It is unfortunate that they can not get 
out into some of the more distant parts of Panama, but of 
course traveling in such places is extremely difficult. 
Mr. Powell S66IT1S to th Inlc that ahont aXX tho Panaman 
chids have, been collected, but that I do not believe, 
