. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. The undetermined species of epiphytic ericad that I nearly fell into the abyss to get. Photos by the ufiseen since the Ruiz and Pavon expedition! We had just turned to take the collected materials back to the car when Mr. Schunke discovered another shrubby rubiad, which I immediately recognized as another species of Psychotria belonging to a different and very distinctive section of the genus, but I couldn't recall any species that has the appearance of this specimen. Even after checking my notes I'm still unable to decide. Is it something previou
. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. The undetermined species of epiphytic ericad that I nearly fell into the abyss to get. Photos by the ufiseen since the Ruiz and Pavon expedition! We had just turned to take the collected materials back to the car when Mr. Schunke discovered another shrubby rubiad, which I immediately recognized as another species of Psychotria belonging to a different and very distinctive section of the genus, but I couldn't recall any species that has the appearance of this specimen. Even after checking my notes I'm still unable to decide. Is it something previously unknown in this part of South America, or possibly something previously unknown to science? I won't be able to answer these questions until I have a chance to study the specimen in the laboratory at Field Museum and compare it with our extensive herbarium holdings. They include 200- year-old specimens collected by Ruiz and Pavon on this mountainside, which we obtained in the early 1950s from the Royal Botanical Garden Herbarium in Madrid. We traveled on, stopping once more near where the Chinchauito enters the Huallaga River to make one more search for ericads and rubiads. IMo luck here, but it was getting dark so we returned to the car and resumed our journey. At the juncture with the Huallaga River we left the trail of Ruiz and Pavon. They turned upstream and stopped at the village of Cochero, spending quite a long time there collecting in the rich forests that surrounded the village. Neither the village nor the forests exist today; this whole mountainside is now open grassland. Our road turned left to follow the Huallaga downstream along a canyon whose slopes have mostly been planted in coffee bushes shaded by low, spreading "shimbillo" trees. About fifteen minutes later the canyon broadened to a small valley that contains the village of La Palma, then closed in again. The highway is perched on a ledge between the river and the forested slopes. A few minutes la
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