Under the Dome, Palace of Horticulture

From Frank Morton Todd, Story of the Exposition, volume 4, p. 310
The Cuban flag has a triangle and 5 stripes, seen here.

"Just how to treat the area under the dome so that the huge void should not look meaningless and vacant was at first a puzzle, especially as some features designed by the Chief of the Department for that purpose had to be pruned out of the estimates, for economy. But Cuba, eager to show her appreciation of the aid of the United States in her difficulties a few years back, applied for the space, and came forward with 14 carloads of trees and plants that turned it into an emerald jungle of strange, giant California vegetable forms never seen in this region. There were cocoanut trees, and Royal and Cocos palms, lifting tall shafts from which

they stretched their fronds over a billowy sea of ferns and tropical lilies. There was the curious mycrocycus a tree-fern a thousand years old. There were bamboo palms, breadfruit and banana trees, mangoes, guanabano, dates in bearing, and the finest specimens of crotons with\ their broad, variegated leaves, ever shown in this country. These strange and exotic things, all living under the huge glass bubble, thriving vigorously, and exhaling a moist, earthy tropical scent, established the sylvan atmosphere of the Palace and gave it a haunting and fairy-like charm." (p. 312)