Last April Chen and five Punun aborigines searched for orchids in the Central Mountain Range for ten days. Not only did they fail to come up with a single precious species, they even had a hard time finding any run-of-the-mill varieties.
去年四月間，住卑南鄉賓朗村的陳茂林，才和五位布農族的山胞到中央山脈上求蘭。在山裡挖了十天，不要說曠世名蘭尋不著，就是連粗蘭也沒見幾株。