Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Addisonia, Vol. 7: Colored Illustrations and Popular Descriptions of Plants; 1922
The botanical collector who goes into little-known countries and makes long and perilous journeys in search of plants often becomes discouraged after months of hardships and isolation from congenial spirits. At times, however, he becomes thrilled and inspired by his work. This often occurs when he is tracing the route of some great naturalist and suddenly comes upon a rare plant at the very locality, perhaps at the very spot, where it was discovered fifty or one hundred years before. The writer had such experiences in 1918 when making an extensive trip through Ecuador. For over a month he collected along the route, down the Interandean Valley, followed by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland in 1801 to 1803; he was at many of the localities visited by Richard Spruce which are so fascinatingly described in his N otes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes and at Guayaquil he collected some of the plants, obtained by Sinclair and Dr. Hinds, which were reported upon by George Bentham in the Botany of the Sulphur. One of these is the plant here illustrated.
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